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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 16.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Robot. 2012 May 22;28(4):958–966. doi: 10.1109/TRO.2012.2196189

TABLE III.

Significant Normalized Regression Coefficients for Grasp Quality With 95% Confidence Intervals on N + 1 Topology. Two-Finger Grasp

Parameter Expected Percentage Increase in Quality for a 1% Increase in Parameter Value 95% Confidence Interval

Link length Link 2 -0.436 (-0.466, -0.406)
Link 1 -0.333 (-0.363, -0.302)
Link 3 -0.290 (-0.320, -0.260)

Max tension Tendon 1 0.995 (0.265, 1.03)
Tendon 2
Tendon 3
Tendon 4
Tendon 5

Moment arm 1,1 1.01 (0.975, 1.04)
1,5 -0.593 (-0.623, -0.564)
2,5 0.553 (0.522, 0.583)
2,4 0.272 (0.243, 0.302)
1,4 -0.259 (-0.289, -0.228)
2,3 0.159 (0.128, 0.190)
1,3 -0.143 (-0.174, -0.112)
1,2
2,2
3,3
3,4
3,5
4,4
4,5

‘–’ Denotes not significant at the cutoff p-value of 0.05. Moment arms expressed as (joint number, tendon number). R2 = 0.930.