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Review and Research Issues on Underactuated Finger Mechanism

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Proceedings of the 2015 Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference

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The current typical prototypes, design methods, and analysis theory on underactuated finger mechanism are reviewed. Primary existing problems are also pointed out according to some analyses. Finally, several important directions in future research are proposed.

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This work was supported in part by the 2013 Beijing university youth talent plan No. YETP1294, the NSFC projects No. 51375504, and the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University.

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Wu, L., Kong, Y., Li, X. (2015). Review and Research Issues on Underactuated Finger Mechanism. In: Deng, Z., Li, H. (eds) Proceedings of the 2015 Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 338. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46466-3_18

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