When a person picks up a metal part and clamps it in the chuck of a lathe, he begins with his arm, proceeds with his wrist and finishes with his fingers. The ar

Numerous books have already been published specializing in one of the well known areas that comprise Mechatronics: mechanical engineering, electronic control an

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Challenge, RGMC 2016, held at IROS 2016, Daejeon, South Korea, in

This book provides a fundamental knowledge of robotic grasping and fixturing (RGF) manipulation. For RGF manipulation to become a science rather than an art, th

The subject of this paper forms part of a broader effort to model the mechanics of grasping and fine-manipulation for robots. Grasping is the act of acquiring a