Overview
- Carefully edited collection of authoritative contributions in the area of robot hands
- The results described in the volume are expected to lead to more robust, dependable, and inexpensive distributed systems such as those endowed with complex and advanced sensing, actuation, computation, and communication capabilities
- Discusses the field of robotic grasping and manipulation viewed in light of the human hand’s capabilities
- Pushes the state-of-the-art in robot hand design and control
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR, volume 95)
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Rich Complexity of the Human Hand and its Control
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Front Matter
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Human Hand-Inspired Robotic Hand Design and Control
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About this book
“The Human Hand as an Inspiration for Robot Hand Development” presents an edited collection of authoritative contributions in the area of robot hands. The results described in the volume are expected to lead to more robust, dependable, and inexpensive distributed systems such as those endowed with complex and advanced sensing, actuation, computation, and communication capabilities. The twenty-four chapters discuss the field of robotic grasping and manipulation viewed in light of the human hand’s capabilities and push the state-of-the-art in robot hand design and control. Topics discussed include human hand biomechanics, neural control, sensory feedback and perception, and robotic grasp and manipulation. This book will be useful for researchers from diverse areas such as robotics, biomechanics, neuroscience, and anthropologists.
Reviews
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“It puts together a large overview of the human hand structure and organization with many engineering developments of artificial hands. It is intended for researchers … . new research directions would benefit from the wide development of good mechanical design and control principles that are authoritatively presented in this book.” (G. Gini, Computing Reviews, August, 2014)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Human Hand as an Inspiration for Robot Hand Development
Editors: Ravi Balasubramanian, Veronica J. Santos
Series Title: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03017-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-03016-6Published: 20 January 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38045-2Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-03017-3Published: 03 January 2014
Series ISSN: 1610-7438
Series E-ISSN: 1610-742X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 572
Number of Illustrations: 113 b/w illustrations, 97 illustrations in colour