Sensors and Actuators on Determining Parameters for Being Considered in Selection of Elastomers for Biomimetic Hands.

In this paper, the authors present a new methodology to study the viscoelastic behaviour of the human finger. The methodology is based on experimental research consisting of a finger's indentation with a small steel cylindrical object for various indentation speeds. The tests were realized on a CETR UMT-2 Tribometer for indentation speed between 0.