This paper describes a hammering robot with a flexible link which can hit an object from an arbitrary direction in a 3-D space. A dynamical equation of a flexible link hammer is presented by taking gravity into consideration. The conditions that the hammer can strike an object flatwise with only a normal velocity to its face are investigated, and a manipulating method to satisfy the hitting conditions is obtained
Published in:
Robotics and Automation, IEEE Transactions on
(Volume:13
,
Issue:
2
)
Date of Publication: Apr 1997