Mobility of bodies in contact. I. A 2nd-order mobility index for multiple-finger grasps

Using a configuration-space approach, the paper develops a 2nd-order mobility theory for rigid bodies in contact. A major component of this theory is a coordinate invariant 2nd-order mobility index for a body, B, in frictionless contact with finger bodies A/sub 1/,...A/sub k/. The index is an integer that captures the inherent mobility of B in an equilibrium grasp due to second order, or surface curvature, effects. It differentiates between grasps which are deemed equivalent by classical 1st-order theories, but are physically different. We further show that 2nd-order effects can be used to lower the effective mobility of a grasped object, and discuss implications of this result for achieving new lower bounds on the number of contacting finger bodies needed to immobilize an object. Physical interpretation and stability analysis of 2nd-order effects are taken up in the companion paper.

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