Scalable Fabrication and Actuation of a Human Inspired Hand Through 3D Printed Flexures and Combinatorial Actuation

Bosio, Carlo and Junge, Kai and Hughes, Josie (2022) Scalable Fabrication and Actuation of a Human Inspired Hand Through 3D Printed Flexures and Combinatorial Actuation. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 9. ISSN 2296-9144

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Abstract

The fabrication and control of robot hands with biologically inspired structure remains challenging due to its cost and complexity. In this paper we explore how widely available FDM printers can be used to fabricate complex hand structures by leveraging compliant PLA flexures. In particular, we focus on the fabrication of fingers printed as a single piece with tunable compliance, a multi degree of freedom thumb joint, and sensorized compliant fingertips. To address the challenge of control and actuation, we model the behavior of the flexure joints and propose a new method for control: combinatorial actuation. This control method combines the use of a single continuous actuated tendon per finger with two shared “combinatorial” actuators which act across all fingers. We demonstrate that the fingertip workspace using this method is comparable to fully actuated fingers while using significantly less independent actuators. The proposed approach of fabrication and combinatorial actuation provides a rapid and scalable method of designing and controlling complex manipulators.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: OA Open Library > Mathematical Science
Depositing User: Unnamed user with email support@oaopenlibrary.com
Date Deposited: 21 Jun 2023 07:43
Last Modified: 16 Jan 2024 04:40
URI: http://archive.sdpublishers.com/id/eprint/1126

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