Distributed Contact Model for Indeterminate Grasp Force Analysis towards Heavy-Duty Manipulation

Abstract

This paper presents a new contact model to describe the contact constraints for heavy-duty manipulation. This contact model considers the contact area as a surface, which can translate three-dimension forces and torques. The contact deformations which are resulting from the large contact forces cannot be ignored. Distributed linear elastic contact model is adopted to describe the relationship between contact force and contact deformation. A case study is carried out in this paper based on this contact model for the grasp force analysis of heavy-duty manipulators.