Title
Autonomous manipulation with a general-purpose simple hand
Abstract
While complex hands seem to offer generality, simple hands are often more practical. This raises the question: how do generality and simplicity trade off in the design of robot hands? This paper explores the tension between simplicity in hand design and generality in hand function. It raises arguments both for and against simple hands, it considers several familiar examples, and it proposes an approach for autonomous manipulation using a general-purpose but simple hand. We explore the approach in the context of a bin-picking task, focused on grasping, recognition, and localization. The central idea is to use learned knowledge of stable grasp poses as a cue for object recognition and localization. This leads to some novel design criteria, such as minimizing the number of stable grasp poses. Finally, we describe experiments with two prototype hands to perform bin-picking of highlighter markers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1177/0278364911429978
I. J. Robotic Res.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Grasping,robotic hands,grasp recognition,grasp localization
GRASP,Robotic hand,General purpose,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Robot,Generality,Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
31
5
0278-3649
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
27
1.66
43
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthew T Mason12102989.62
Alberto Rodriguez231436.99
Siddhartha Srinivasa32675167.63
Andrés S. Vázquez48210.75