6 Result(s)
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Chapter
Calculating Human Like Grasp Shapes: Pinch Grasps
Usually, grasp planning can be split up into two phases: In the first phase one tries to find a set of contacts that allow for stable gras** of an object. This phase has been of major research interest, whic...
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Chapter
Touch: The Intuitive Type of Human and Robot Interaction
The mobile service robots will share their workspaces e.g. offices, hospitals or households with humans. Thus a direct contact between man and machine is inevitably. Robots equipped with appropriate sensors ca...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A new Generation of Light-weight Robot Arms and Multifingerd Hands
The keynote lecture describes recent design and development efforts in DLR’s robotics lab towards a new generation of ultra-light weight robots with articulated hands (Fig.1). The design of fully sensorized jo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
DLR’s multisensory articulated hand
The paper outlines DLR’s new 4-finger hand characterized by the fact that all 12 active joints (3 for each finger) are integrated into the fingers or the palm. With 112 sensors, around 1000 mechanical and arou...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards a new Robot Generation
Key items in the development of a new smart robot generation are explained by hand of DLR’s recent activities in robotics research. These items are the design of multisensory gripper and articulated hands syst...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On a unified concept for a new generation of light-weight robots
The paper outlines a concept for the design of a new generation of light weight robots using an integrated and unified approach for all relevant elements. A light multisensory gripper as the critical end-mass ...
