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Vatsal V. Patel

4 accepted papers

2025

Model Q-II: An Underactuated Hand with Enhanced Grasping Modes and Primitives for Dexterous Manipulation

ICRA 2025

This paper introduces Model Q-II, an enhanced underactuated robotic hand designed to improve dexterous manipulation through expanded grasping modes and manipulation primitives. The Model Q-II incorporates tripod and enhanced power grasping modes, achieving increased versatility without adding additi

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2023

An Analysis of Unified Manipulation with Robot Arms and Dexterous Hands via Optimization-based Motion Synthesis

ICRA 2023poster

Robot manipulation today generally focuses on motions exclusively with a robot arm or a dexterous hand, but usually not a combination of both. However, complex manipulation tasks can require coordinating arm and hand motions that leverage capabilities of both, much like the coordinated arm and hand…

Cited by 6Source ↗Scholar ↗
2021

Robot Hand based on a Spherical Parallel Mechanism for Within-Hand Rotations about a Fixed Point

IROS 2021poster

Rotating a grasped object about all three spatial axes is challenging, because kinematically redundant robot hands require complex control schemes for within-hand rotations, and simple parallel grippers require inefficient whole arm motions. We present a novel 3-finger robot hand design inspired by…

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2020

Highly Underactuated Radial Gripper for Automated Planar Grasping and Part Fixturing

IROS 2020poster

Grasping can be conceptualized as the ability of an end-effector to temporarily attach or fixture an object to a manipulator-constraining all motion of the workpiece with respect to the end-effector's base frame. This seemingly simplistic action often requires excessive sensing, computation, or cont…

Cited by 5Source ↗Scholar ↗