Low Overhead Manipulation of Bound Book Pages
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 5, pp. 4326 - 4331, April, 2004
Abstract
The robotic manipulation of flexible materials such as paper remains a challenging area of research. Our previous work has focused on the nondestructive manipulation of bound paper as found in books. This article describes a new approach to the one-sided, nonprehensile paper manipulation problem in which we use the polymer polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) to create a mechanical bond between the paper and robot manipulator. We have fabricated and tested several complete page-flipping robots that make use of this technique. The current robot has manipulated 10,720 bound pages with an error rate of 0.056%. Future research would focus on refining the design for use in industry.
BibTeX
@conference{Young-2004-121327,author = {J. Young and I. Nourbakhsh},
title = {Low Overhead Manipulation of Bound Book Pages},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation},
year = {2004},
month = {April},
volume = {5},
pages = {4326 - 4331},
}
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