Abstract-Several practical issues associated with achieving effective impedance performance in the finger joint space and stable grasping on a five-fingered dexterous hand are investigated in this work. A Multiprocessor structure based on field programming gate array (FPGA) is proposed to realize the high-level hand impedance controller. The key feature of the hardware system is a dual-processor architecture based controller, one of which is used for data communication control and the other for joint and object level control. High speed Experimental results and simulation with a five-fingered dexterous robot hand demonstrate that the controller architecture is able to achieve the desired robot hand impedance control performance and effective stable grasping.