Mechanics of Gripping Form by Artificial Fingers

摘要

It is desired that artificial fingers can grip various objects with a gripping suitable to their shapes. In this paper, we discuss the matching between the structure of artificial fingers and the shapes of objects. The gripping by a robot is regarded as the restriction of the objects by the fingers. The forces acting on the objects should be balanced for the gripping.First the finger forces depending on the structure of the artificial fingers and the shape of an object are analyzed. Second by introducing the potential function the stability of a gripping form is discussed. When the potential is relative minimum at a certain gripping form, the resultant of all the finger forces acts so as to keep the gripping for all of small deviations. The defined potential can be applied to decide the optimal gripping form and the design of an universal gripper.