4 accepted papers
Humanoid robotic hands need to be versatile and capable of providing environmental information in order to serve as a platform for intelligent grasp control. To facilitate the design process of such hands, we present the KIT Robotic Hands. They have been designed to meet diverse application requirem
Engineering humanoid robot hands with the ability to dexterously grasp objects of different sizes, shapes, mate-rial properties and weights requires sophisticated tactile sensing and intelligent controllers able to interpret sensory information and adapt contact forces with the object to achieve a s…
Tactile sensing of surface normals is essential for exploration of unknown objects. Many tactile sensors have been developed for contact measurement. However, few of these sensors provide surface orientation, and only up to a limited degree. This paper presents a novel contact and surface orientatio…
The development and control of prosthetic hands is an active research area and recently progress in mechatronics, sensor integration and innovative control has been made. However, integration of different components into a prosthetic hand remains challenging due to space constraints, the requirement…