Robust proprioceptive grasping with a soft robot hand

Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016.

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Main Author: Homberg, Bianca (Bianca S.)
Other Authors: Daniela Rus.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106123
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spelling mit-1721.1/1061232019-04-11T08:47:43Z Robust proprioceptive grasping with a soft robot hand Homberg, Bianca (Bianca S.) Daniela Rus. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-88). This work presents a soft hand capable of robustly grasping and identifying objects based on internal state measurements along with a combined system which autonomously performs grasps. A highly compliant soft hand allows for intrinsic robustness to grasping uncertainties; the addition of internal sensing allows the configuration of the hand and object to be detected. The hand can be configured in different ways using finger unit modules. The finger module includes resistive force sensors on the fingertips for contact detection and resistive bend sensors for measuring the curvature profile of the finger. The curvature sensors can be used to estimate the contact geometry and thus to distinguish between a set of grasped objects. With one data point from each finger, the object grasped by the hand can be identified. A clustering algorithm to find the correspondence for each grasped object is presented for both enveloping grasps and pinch grasps. This hand is incorporated into a full system with vision and motion planning on the Baxter robot to autonomously perform grasps of objects placed on a table. This hand is a first step towards proprioceptive soft grasping. by Bianca Homberg. M. Eng. 2016-12-22T16:29:55Z 2016-12-22T16:29:55Z 2016 2016 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106123 965800025 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 115 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
spellingShingle Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Homberg, Bianca (Bianca S.)
Robust proprioceptive grasping with a soft robot hand
title Robust proprioceptive grasping with a soft robot hand
title_full Robust proprioceptive grasping with a soft robot hand
title_fullStr Robust proprioceptive grasping with a soft robot hand
title_full_unstemmed Robust proprioceptive grasping with a soft robot hand
title_short Robust proprioceptive grasping with a soft robot hand
title_sort robust proprioceptive grasping with a soft robot hand
topic Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106123
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