The Mechanics of Robot Grasping
Published on 24. October 2019
Book
Hardback
506 pages
978-1-108-42790-6 (ISBN)
Description
In this comprehensive textbook about robot grasping, readers will discover an integrated look at the major concepts and technical results in robot grasp mechanics. A large body of prior research, including key theories, graphical techniques, and insights on robot hand designs, is organized into a systematic review, using common notation and a common analytical framework. With introductory and advanced chapters that support senior undergraduate and graduate level robotics courses, this book provides a full introduction to robot grasping principles that are needed to model and analyze multi-finger robot grasps, and serves as a valuable reference for robotics students, researchers, and practicing robot engineers. Each chapter contains many worked-out examples, exercises with full solutions, and figures that highlight new concepts and help the reader master the use of the theories and equations presented.
Reviews / Votes
'The Mechanics of Robot Grasping, by two of the world's leading experts, fills an important gap in the literature by providing the first comprehensive survey of the mathematical tools needed to model the physics of grasping. The book uses configuration space to consistently characterize equilibrium, immobilizing, and caging grasps, and clearly conveys important points such as the distinction between first-order and second-order form closure. The book also contains new material on the effects of gravity, compliance, and hand mechanism design. Grasping remains a Grand Challenge for robots and this book provides the solid foundation for progress for students and researchers in the years ahead.' Ken Goldberg, University of California, Berkeley 'This is a book on robotic hand grasping from new view points. Different from other books on grasping, this book concretely explains the equilibrium grasp, the immobilizing grasp and the caging grasp. In addition, I have never seen a book discussing the equilibrium stance of legged robots in relation to the equilibrium grasp. Classical topics on grasping mechanics are also covered in this book.' Kensuke Harada, Osaka University, JapanMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 3 Halftones, black and white; 176 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
1047 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-42790-6 (9781108427906)
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Elon Rimon
Mechanics of Robot Grasping
E-Book
10/2019
Cambridge University Press
€93.99
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Elon Rimon | Joel Burdick
The Mechanics of Robot Grasping
E-Book
10/2019
Cambridge University Press
€105.99
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Persons
Elon Rimon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. He has also been a Visiting Associate Faculty member at the California Institute of Technology. Professor Rimon was a finalist for the best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in 1994 and 1996, for the Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics in 2014 and 2016, and awarded best paper presentation at the Robotics Science and Systems Conference in 2013.
Content
1. Introduction and overview; Part I. Basic Geometry of the Grasping Process: 2. Rigid-body configuration space; 3. Configuration space tangent and cotangent vectors; 4. Rigid body equilibrium grasps; 5. A catalog of equilibrium grasps; Part II. Frictionless Rigid Body Grasps and Stances: 6. Introduction to secure grasps; 7. First-order immobilizing grasps; 8. Second-order immobilizing grasps; 9. Minimal immobilizing grasps; 10. Multi-finger caging grasps; 11. Frictionless hand supported stances under gravity; Part III. Frictional Rigid-Body Grasps, Fixtures, and Stances: 12. Wrench resistant grasps; 13. Grasp quality functions; 14. Hand supported stances under gravity - Part I; 15. Hand supported stances under gravity - Part II; Part IV. Grasping Mechanisms: 16. The kinematics and mechanics of grasping mechanisms; 17. Grasp manipulability; 18. Hand mechanism compliance; Appendices; Index.