Optimal Design of Rotational Chuck-type Hand with Three Parallel Stick Fingers for Assembly Tasks through Grasp Optimization

Abstract

For realizing a versatile, flexible robotic assembly system, the development of a versatile robotic hand with a minimally necessary mechanism which can grasp all the target parts and perform jig-less assembly of them is desired. Considering a rotational chuck-type hand with three parallel stick fingers as one possible solution, this paper presents a method to design an optimal mechanism of the hand through grasp optimization under a required external wrench set, and a hand mechanism for the assembly of target parts is actually designed with the proposed method.