Publications

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Recent OpenBionics publications:

Journal Papers

[#2] George P. Kontoudis, Minas Liarokapis, Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis, Tomonari Furukawa, “An Adaptive Actuation Mechanism for Anthropomorphic Robot Hands,” Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2019.

[#1] Lucas Gerez, Junan Chen, and Minas Liarokapis, “On the Development of Adaptive, Tendon-Driven, Wearable Exo-Gloves for Grasping Capabilities Enhancement,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2019. [PDF]

Conference Papers

[#8] George P. Kontoudis, Minas Liarokapis, Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis, “An Adaptive, Humanlike Robot Hand with Selective Interdigitation: Towards Robust Grasping and Dexterous, In-Hand Manipulation,” IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Toronto, Canada, 2019.

[#7] George Kontoudis, Minas Liarokapis, and Kyriakos Vamvoudakis, “A Compliant, Underactuated Finger for Anthropomorphic Hands,” IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), Toronto, Canada, 2019.

[#6] Lucas Gerez and Minas Liarokapis, “A Compact Ratchet Clutch Mechanism for Fine Tendon Termination and Adjustment,” IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Auckland, New Zealand, 2018. [PDF]

[#5] George P. Kontoudis, Minas V. Liarokapis, Agisilaos G. Zisimatos, Christoforos I. Mavrogiannis and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, “Open-Source, Anthropomorphic, Underactuated Robot Hands with a Selectively Lockable Differential Mechanism: Towards Affordable Prostheses”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hamburg (Germany), 2015. [BibTeX] [PDF]

[#4] Agisilaos G. Zisimatos, Minas V. Liarokapis, Christoforos I. Mavrogiannis and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, “Open-Source, Affordable, Modular, Light-Weight, Underactuated Robot Hands”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Chicago (USA), 2014. [BibTeX] [PDF]

[#3] Minas V. Liarokapis, Agisilaos G. Zisimatos, Melina N. Bousiou and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, “Open-Source, Low-Cost, Compliant, Modular, Underactuated Fingers: Towards Affordable Prostheses for Partial Hand Amputations”, 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Chicago (USA), 2014. [BibTeX] [PDF]

[#2] Christoforos I. Mavrogiannis, Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, Minas V. Liarokapis and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, “Task-Specific Grasp Selection for Underactuated Hands”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong (China), 2014. [BibTeX] [PDF]

[#1] Minas V. Liarokapis, Panagiotis K. Artemiadis and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, “Quantifying Anthropomorphism of Robot Hands”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe (Germany), 2013. [BibTeX] [PDF]

Workshop Papers

[#1] Minas V. Liarokapis, Agisilaos G. Zisimatos, Christoforos I. Mavrogiannis and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, “OpenBionics: An Open-Source Initiative for the Creation of Affordable, Modular, Light-Weight, Underactuated Robot Hands and Prosthetic Devices”, 2nd ASU Rehabilitation Robotics Workshop, Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, AZ (USA), 2014.
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Technical Reports

[#2] George P. Kontoudis, Minas V. Liarokapis, Agisilaos G. Zisimatos, Christoforos I. Mavrogiannis, and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, “How to Create Affordable, Anthropomorphic, Personalized, Light-Weight Prosthetic Hands”, Control Systems Lab, School of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, October 2015. [BibTeX] [PDF]

[#1] Agisilaos G. Zisimatos, Minas V. Liarokapis, Christoforos I. Mavrogiannis, George P. Kontoudis and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, “How to Create Affordable, Modular, Light-Weight, Underactuated, Compliant Robot Hands”, Control Systems Lab, School of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, January 2015. [BibTeX] [PDF]