| Title | Contact and Grasp Robustness Measures: Analysis and Experiments |
| Publication Type | Book Chapter |
| Year of Publication | 1996 |
| Authors | Prattichizzo, D, Salisbury, JK, Bicchi, A |
| Editor | Khatib, O, Salisbury, K |
| Book Title | Experimental Robotics-IV |
| Series Title | LNCIS 223 |
| Publisher | Springer Verlag |
| City | Berlin Heidelberg, Germany |
| Keywords | Grasping, Haptics, Robot Hands |
| Abstract | In this paper we discuss some aspects related to the practical assessment of the quality of a grasp by a robotic device on objects of unknown shape, based on sensorial feedback from tactile and force sensors on the hand. We briefly discuss the concept of contact robustness and of grasp robustness, pointing out that the former is an easily computable but overconservative sufficient condition for the latter. Some experimental results on a simple gripper, the so–called ``Instrumented Talon'', are reported as an illustration. |
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