Tactile sensing plays a pivotal role in achieving precise physical manipulation tasks and
extracting vital physical features. This comprehensive review paper presents an in-depth …

Grasping and assembly are essential tasks in high-precision robotic manipulation for
industrial manufacturing as well as for home service applications. Many efforts have been …

Capture and removal of space debris are challenging in robotic on-orbit servicing activities.
A large portion of space debris does not possess any graspable features, which makes the …

Industrial Cyber Physical Systems can use data and information gained from across a
variety of different environments to enable robots that are reconfigurable. Custom grasping …

Owing to their tremendous adaptability to free-form objects, soft grippers with fin-ray
structure have a wide range of applications. However, kinetostatics analysis and contact …

Soft robotic grippers are increasingly desired in applications that involve grasping of
complex and deformable objects. However, their flexible nature and non-linear dynamics …

This paper presents the design, control and evaluation of a novel robotic finger actuated by
shape memory alloy (SMA) tubes which intrinsically afford an internal conduit for fluidic …

In this paper, we aim to use a continuous formulation to efficiently calculate the well-known
wrench-based grasp metric proposed by Ferrari and Canny which is the minimum distance …

In this paper, we present a human-inspired approach to solve grasp planning and inverse
kinematics (IK) problems, simultaneously. Our proposed solution is for integrated arm–hand …

Recent developments in robot technology have led to the expansion of robot automation in
various service fields. In this study, we developed a gripper for a plate retrieval robot for …