Representation of Pre-Grasp Strategies for Object Manipulation - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Representation of Pre-Grasp Strategies for Object Manipulation

Daniel Kappler, Lillian Y. Chang, Markus Przybylski, Nancy Pollard, Tamim Asfour, and Rudiger Dillmann
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE-RAS 10th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids '10), pp. 617 - 624, December, 2010

Abstract

In this paper, we present a method for representing and re-targeting manipulations for object adjustment before final grasping. Such pre-grasp manipulation actions bring objects into better configurations for grasping through e.g. object rotation or object sliding. For this purpose, we propose a scaling-invariant and rotation-invariant representation of the hand poses, which is then automatically adapted to the target object to perform the selected pre-grasp manipulations. We show that pre-grasp strategies such as sliding manipulations not only enable more robust object grasping, but also significantly increase the success rate for grasping.

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BibTeX

@conference{Kappler-2010-10579,
author = {Daniel Kappler and Lillian Y. Chang and Markus Przybylski and Nancy Pollard and Tamim Asfour and Rudiger Dillmann},
title = {Representation of Pre-Grasp Strategies for Object Manipulation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE-RAS 10th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids '10)},
year = {2010},
month = {December},
pages = {617 - 624},
}