Design and tests of a three finger hand with 1-DOF articulated fingers

  • Authors:
  • Marco Ceccarelli;Nestor Eduardo Nava Rodriguez;Giuseppe Carbone

  • Affiliations:
  • LARM: Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics, DiMSAT – University of Cassino, Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (Fr) (Italy) (Visiting student at LARM during Academic Year 2002–03 from ...;LARM: Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics, DiMSAT – University of Cassino, Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (Fr) (Italy) (Visiting student at LARM during Academic Year 2002–03 from ...;LARM: Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics, DiMSAT – University of Cassino, Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (Fr) (Italy) (Visiting student at LARM during Academic Year 2002–03 from ...

  • Venue:
  • Robotica
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper presents the design of a new low-cost, easy operation hand having three 1-dof anthropomorphic fingers of a human size. Experimental results on human cylindrical grasping have been used for designing a 1-dof anthropomorphic finger of a human size. The mechanical design of this finger has been mainly focused on a suitable articulated mechanism. This mechanism transmits the power to the phalanxes for a human-like grasping motion and it can be embedded in the body of the finger itself. The design of a three finger hand has been presented as based on the designed finger module. Experimental tests on a built hand prototype have been carried out in order to show the feasibility of the proposed design and validate its operation.