Title : 
Force/torque closure grasp in the plane
         
        
            Author : 
Zuo, Qun ; Sun, Chengyu
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Courant Inst. of Math. Sci., New York Univ., NY, USA
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
For frictionless point fingers it is shown that four fingers are sufficient to constitute a force/torque closure grasp for an arbitrarily polygonal object in the plane, thus improving the best previous bound of six fingers. Since four fingers are also necessary to have force/torque closure grasp for an object with arbitrary polygon shape on the plane, the result gives an optimal bound
         
        
            Keywords : 
robots; force/torque closure grasp; frictionless point fingers; Fingers; Friction; Manufacturing industries; Pressing; Service robots; Shape; Sun; Torque; Upper bound;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Intelligent Robots and Systems '91. 'Intelligence for Mechanical Systems, Proceedings IROS '91. IEEE/RSJ International Workshop on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Osaka
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-0067-X
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/IROS.1991.174561