Soft robotic hand with tactile palm-finger coordination

Soft robotic hand with tactile palm-finger coordination

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Abstract Soft robotic hands with integrated sensing capabilities hold great potential for interactive operations.Previous here work has typically focused on integrating sensors with fingers.The palm, as a large and crucial contact region providing mechanical support and sensory feedback, remains underexplored due to the currently limited sensing density and interaction with the fingers.

Here, we develop a sensorized robotic hand that integrates a high-density tactile palm, dexterous soft fingers, and cooperative palm-finger interaction strategies.The palm features a compact visual-tactile design to capture delicate contact information.The soft fingers are designed as fiber-reinforced pneumatic actuators, each providing two-segment motions for multimodal grasping.

These features enable extensive palm-finger interactions, offering mutual benefits such as improved grasping stability, automatic exquisite surface reconstruction, and accurate object classification.We also develop palm-finger feedback strategies to enable dynamic tasks, including planar object pickup, continuous flaw detection, and grasping pose adjustment.Furthermore, our development, augmented by artificial intelligence, shows improved potential for human-robot collaboration.

Our results suggest the promise of fusing rich palm tactile read more sensing with soft dexterous fingers for advanced interactive robotic operations.