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Shadow Dextrous Hand Simulation

Here are some ways to model the Shadow Hand to see what it could do for your system.

Gazebo Player Stage

The gazebo Hand model (49Mb) file is a model that can be used in the Open Source simulator Gazebo. The model contains controllers so you can interface it with player or develop your own interface. The archive file also contains two simple example of python and C++ program controlling the gazebo model through its player interface.

View the gazebo install howto.

If you have any problem with the simulation tools please contact the hand list.

Download Blender

The hand-full-reduced (7,512Kb) file is a model that can be used in the Open Source animation package Blender (available from www.blender.org). It has all of the joints articulated, so you can do animations of the joints.

Link to GraspIt

GraspIt is an older system that models other robot Hands that may be of some interest. GraspIt is downloadable via http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~cmatei/graspit/.

If you produce an interesting animation with the Hand, please contact us hand@shadowrobot.com and we'll see if we can put the results here.

Hand Model
Blender link

                                                                                                                                            

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