Title
Stable pinching by controlling finger relative orientation of robotic fingers with rolling soft tips.
Abstract
There is a large gap between reality and grasp models that are currently available because of the static analysis that characterizes these approaches. This work attempts to fill this need by proposing a control law that, starting from an initial contact state which does not necessarily correspond to an equilibrium, achieves dynamically a stable grasp and a relative finger orientation in the case of pinching an object with arbitrary shape via rolling soft fingertips. Controlling relative finger orientation may improve grasping force manipulability and allow the appropriate shaping of the composite object consisted of the distal links and the object, for facilitating subsequent tasks. The proposed controller utilizes only finger proprioceptive measurements and is not based on the system model. Simulation and experimental results demonstrate the performance of the proposed controller with objects of different shapes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1017/S0263574717000303
ROBOTICA
Keywords
Field
DocType
Stable pinching,Relative finger orientation,Soft rolling contact,Feedback control
Control theory,GRASP,Control theory,Static analysis,Engineering,System model
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
36
2
0263-5747
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
16
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Psomopoulou, E.131.06
Daiki Karashima200.34
Zoe Doulgeri333247.11
Kenji Tahara419136.63