Robots are getting deployed at home and in industries, becoming an integral part of our daily lives. Sophisticated mechanisms are required to make the joints of the robots compact and simple. In this paper, we have developed a flexure joint for the fingers of the robotic hand. The flexure joint is arranged in series to make a three-DOF underactuated finger. Five fingers are arranged to make a robotic hand. Castigliano’s theorem is used to develop the deformation related to the applied loads, using the equation the flexure mechanism was designed. Pseudo-rigid model is developed to determine the stiffness of the flexure mechanism. A virtual model of the flexure mechanism is developed in a CAD environment. Finite Element (FE) simulation is conducted to the different loading conditions to evaluate the performance of the flexure mechanism. It was seen that the flexure mechanism is flexible about the rotational axis and stiff about the other axes. The stiffness model developed using the pseudo-rigid model has a good correlation with the FE simulation model.

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Design of Flexure Robotic Hand for Teleoperation

  • Mohammad Zubair,
  • Shubham Bhandari,
  • Indranath Chatterjee

摘要

Robots are getting deployed at home and in industries, becoming an integral part of our daily lives. Sophisticated mechanisms are required to make the joints of the robots compact and simple. In this paper, we have developed a flexure joint for the fingers of the robotic hand. The flexure joint is arranged in series to make a three-DOF underactuated finger. Five fingers are arranged to make a robotic hand. Castigliano’s theorem is used to develop the deformation related to the applied loads, using the equation the flexure mechanism was designed. Pseudo-rigid model is developed to determine the stiffness of the flexure mechanism. A virtual model of the flexure mechanism is developed in a CAD environment. Finite Element (FE) simulation is conducted to the different loading conditions to evaluate the performance of the flexure mechanism. It was seen that the flexure mechanism is flexible about the rotational axis and stiff about the other axes. The stiffness model developed using the pseudo-rigid model has a good correlation with the FE simulation model.