From the April-June 2013 issue

A Hand-Centric Classification of Human and Robot Dexterous Manipulation

By Ian M. Bullock, Raymond R. Ma, and Aaron M. Dollar

Training Toddlers Seated on Mobile Robots to Steer Using Force-Feedback JoystickThis work contributes to the development of a common framework for the discussion and analysis of dexterous manipulation across the human and robotic domains. An overview of previous work is first provided along with an analysis of the tradeoffs between arm and hand dexterity. A hand-centric and motion-centric manipulation classification is then presented and applied in four different ways. It is first discussed how the taxonomy can be used to identify a manipulation strategy. Then, applications for robot hand analysis and engineering design are explained...

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