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Introducing V-Soft Pro: a Modular Platform for a Transhumeral Prosthesis with Controllable Stiffness
Giuseppe Milazzo, Giorgio Grioli, Antonio Bicchi +1
Current upper limb prostheses aim to enhance user independence in daily activities by incorporating basic motor functions. However, they fall short of replicating the natural movem…
Tactile SoftHand-A: 3D-Printed, Tactile, Highly-underactuated, Anthropomorphic Robot Hand with an Antagonistic Tendon Mechanism
Haoran Li, Christopher J. Ford, Chenghua Lu +5
A challenging and important problem for tendon-driven multi-fingered robotic hands is to ensure grasping adaptivity while minimizing the number of actuators needed to provide human…
Shear-based Grasp Control for Multi-fingered Underactuated Tactile Robotic Hands
Christopher J. Ford, Haoran Li, Manuel G. Catalano +3
This paper presents a shear-based control scheme for grasping and manipulating delicate objects with a Pisa/IIT anthropomorphic SoftHand equipped with soft biomimetic tactile senso…
Soft Adaptive Feet for Legged Robots: An Open-Source Model for Locomotion Simulation
Matteo Crotti, Luca Rossini, Balint K. Hodossy +4
In recent years, artificial feet based on soft robotics and under-actuation principles emerged to improve mobility on challenging terrains. This paper presents the application of t…
Characterization, Experimental Validation and Pilot User Study of the Vibro-Inertial Bionic Enhancement System (VIBES)
Alessia S. Ivani, Federica Barontini, Manuel G. Catalano +3
This study presents the characterization and validation of the VIBES, a wearable vibrotactile device that provides high-frequency tactile information embedded in a prosthetic socke…
Tactile Perception in Upper Limb Prostheses: Mechanical Characterization, Human Experiments, and Computational Findings
Alessia Silvia Ivani, Manuel G. Catalano, Giorgio Grioli +3
Our research investigates vibrotactile perception in four prosthetic hands with distinct kinematics and mechanical characteristics. We found that rigid and simple socket-based pros…