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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Anatomically correct testbed hand control: Muscle and joint control strategies
— Human hands are capable of many dexterous grasping and manipulation tasks. To understand human levels of dexterity and to achieve it with robotic hands, we constructed an anato...
Ashish Deshpande, Jonathan Ko, Dieter Fox, Yoky Ma...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Biological stiffness control strategies for the Anatomically Correct Testbed (ACT) hand
— With the goal of developing biologically inspired manipulation strategies for an anthropomorphic hand, we investigated how the human central nervous system utilizes the hands r...
Ravi Balasubramanian, Yoky Matsuoka
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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A Kinematic Thumb Model for the ACT Hand
- The thumb is essential to the hand’s function in grasping and manipulating objects. Previous anthropomorphic robot hands have thumbs that are biologically-inspired but kinemati...
Lillian Y. Chang, Yoky Matsuoka
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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An Extensor Mechanism for an Anatomical Robotic Hand
-- The human finger possesses a structure called the extensor mechanism, a web-like collection of tendinous material that lies on the dorsal side of each finger and connects the co...
David D. Wilkinson, Michael Vande Weghe, Yoky Mats...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Hand Force Estimation using Electromyography Signals
— In many studies and applications that include direct human involvement such as human-robot interaction, control of prosthetic arms, and human factor studies, hand force is need...
Farid Mobasser, Keyvan Hashtrudi-Zaad