Air Muscle Actuated Low Cost Humanoid Hand

Authors

  • G. Naveenkumar  Department of Mechatronics, Sri Krishna college of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Keywords:

McKibben air-muscle, pressure balancing valve, low cost, humanoid hand, robotic arm

Abstract

Due to the cost of precision Actuators, the control of humanoid robot hands has historically been expensive. In this paper ,we presented the design and implementation of a low-cost air muscle actuated humanoid hand developed at Sri Krishna college of Engineering and Technology. Ranging from the elbow to the fingers, this hand offers 10 individually controllable degrees of freedom, with overall control handled through a computer GUI. This to be achieved with simple and inexpensive components, and The hand is actuated through 20 McKibben-style air muscles, each to be supplied by a pneumatic pressure-balancing valve and it allows for proportional control. The number of human-equivalent tasks, such as grasping and relocating objects was successfully able to perform by hand.

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2018-02-28

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Volume 4, Issue 2, January-February-2018

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G. Naveenkumar, " Air Muscle Actuated Low Cost Humanoid Hand, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Volume 4, Issue 2, pp.851-860, January-February-2018.