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David's Hand

Metallversion der Hand von David

Robot hands are normally first in contact with the environment and should withstand hard contacts. Variable compliance systems as realized in David can handle impacts and store energy for periods of time. 2010 the first version was shown at the tradefair Automatica, follwed 2014 by the second version with ball bearings in the finger joints, shown on right picture.

 

Technical data

Weight: 4,5kg (with wrist)
Degrees of freedom: 20
Payload: 20 N active Fingertip force with steel tendons, 40 N with Dyneema
Speed: approximately 720°/s active for each joint, passive 20000°/s while snipping
Sensors: 36 Spring deflection sensors plus 36 motor position sensors 
Power supply: 12 V & 5 V power supplies and distribution
Communication: 4 FPGAs
Features: • Embedded structuralwater cooling
• Embedded structural electronic feed-in layer
• 36 intelligent motor modules with integrated 180W power inverters
• Spring deflection sensors

System description

In contrast to our other robot hands, David's hand has no sensors and actors in the hand. The actors and sensors are located in the forearm of the handarmsystem. This allows  building a hand with the size and dexterity of a human. Every joints is actuated human like  by two motors. The hand can control its position and its passive joint stiffness simulatneously with an nonlinear spring mechanism coupled to the tendons. The decoupling from the gear and output makes it very robust against hits and allows the system to run stable with low controller frequencies. The system is used to compare different tendon couplings and degree of freedoms. Furthermore dynamic grasping combined variable stiffness is explored.

David Hand - image gallery

David-Hand

The intrinsic elastic Robot David is equipped with springs in order to be flexible and robust against unknown impacts. 

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Metal version of David's hand

Similar to humans, David's hand is equipped with 20 degrees of freedom enabling it to grasp a broad variety of objects. The hand is operated via tendons with motors in the forearm. 

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Publications

  • Friedl et al. (2015) FRCEF: The new friction reduced and coupling enhanced finger for the Awiwi hand. In: Proc. IEEE-RAS 15th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 03-05 November 2015, Seoul
  • Friedl et al. (2011) FAS A flexible antagonistic spring element for a high performance over actuated hand. In: Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Conf, IROS 2011, 25.-30. September 2011, San Francisco
  • Chalon et al. (2010) The thumb: Guidelines for a robotic design. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2010), 18-22 Oct 2010, Tapei
  • Grebenstein et al. (2010) A Method for Hand Kinematics Designers 7 Billion Perfect Hands. 1st International Conference on Applied

 

Contact
Werner Friedl
German Aerospace Center

Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics
, Mechatronic Systems
Oberpfaffenhofen-Weßling

Tel.: +49 8153 28-1180

Fax: +49 8153 28-1134

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