Grasping in Robotics

1. Notes for a History of Grasping Devices
Marco Ceccarelli

2. Stiffness Analysis for Grasping Tasks
Giuseppe Carbone

3. Multibody Dynamics Formulation
Parviz E. Nikravesh

4. Sensors and Methods for the Evaluation of Grasping
Antonio Morales, Mario Prats, Javier Felip

5. Industrial Grippers: State-of-the-Art and Main Design Characteristics
Penisi Osvaldo Hugo

6. Robotic Hands and Underactuated Finger Mechanisms
Licheng Wu

7. Finger Orientation for Robotic Hands
Minzhou Luo

8. Parallel Wrists for Enhancing Grasping Performance
Massimo Callegari, Luca Carbonari, Giacomo Palmieri, Matteo-Claudio Palpacelli

9. A Survey on Different Control Techniques for Grasping
Balaguer Carlos, Gimenez Antonio, Jardón Alberto, Cabas Ramiro, Martinez Casa Santiago

10. Hardware Control System of Robotic Hands
Zhan Qiang

11. Visual Servo Control of Robot Grasping
Theodor Borangiu

12. Path Planning for Grasping Tasks

João Carlos Mendes Carvalho, Sezimária F. Pereira Saramago

13. Grasp and Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots

Markus Przybylski, Nikolaus Vahrenkamp, Tamim Asfour, Rüdiger Dillmann

14. Hardware for Industrial Gripping at SCHUNK GmbH & Co. KG
Christopher Parlitz

15. Grasping in Agriculture: State-of-the-Art and Main Characteristics
F. Rodríguez, J. C. Moreno, J. A. Sánchez, M. Berenguel

16. Microgrippers and their Influence on High Precision Assembly Processes
A. Raatz, R. J. Ellwood

17. A New Way of Grasping: PARAGRIP—The Fusion of Gripper and Robot
Tom Mannheim, Martin Riedel, Mathias Hüsing, Burkhard Corves

Keywords: Engineering, Robotics and Automation, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Control, Simulation and Modeling