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Anatomy of human hand is very complex in nature. The structure of human hand consists of number of joints, bones, muscles and tendons, which creates a wide range of movements. It is very difficult to design a robotic hand and incorporate all the features of a normal human hand. In this paper, the model of a three finger robotic hand has been proposed. To replace the muscles and tendons of real human hand, it is proposed to use tendon wire and place the actuator at the palm. The advantage of using tendon and placing actuator at remote location is that it actually reduces the size of the hand. Pulling the tendon wire produces flexor motion in the hand finger. Currently torsional spring is considered at the joint for the extension motion of the finger. The purpose of design of such a hand is to grasp different kinds of object shapes. The paper further presents a kinematics model of the three finger hand and a mapping function to map the joint space coordinates to tendon space coordinates. Finally the hand model is simulated to validate the kinematics equations.
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Sainul, I.A., Deb, S., Deb, A.K. (2016). A Three Finger Tendon Driven Robotic Hand Design and Its Kinematics Model. In: Mandal, D.K., Syan, C.S. (eds) CAD/CAM, Robotics and Factories of the Future. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2740-3_30
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