Extrinsic dexterity: In-hand manipulation with external forces
“In-hand manipulation” is the ability to reposition an object in the hand, for example when adjusting the grasp of a hammer before hammering a nail. The common approach to in-hand manipulation with robotic hands, known as dexterous manipulation [1], is to hold an object within the fingertips of the...
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| author | Paolini, Robert Tang, Bowei Srinivasa, Siddhartha S. Mason, Matthew T. Lundberg, Ivan Staab, Harald Fuhlbrigge, Thomas Chavan Dafle, Nikhil Narsingh Rodriguez Garcia, Alberto Erdmann, Michael A. |
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| description | “In-hand manipulation” is the ability to reposition an object in the hand, for example when adjusting the grasp of a hammer before hammering a nail. The common approach to in-hand manipulation with robotic hands, known as dexterous manipulation [1], is to hold an object within the fingertips of the hand and wiggle the fingers, or walk them along the object's surface. Dexterous manipulation, however, is just one of the many techniques available to the robot. The robot can also roll the object in the hand by using gravity, or adjust the object's pose by pressing it against a surface, or if fast enough, it can even toss the object in the air and catch it in a different pose. All these techniques have one thing in common: they rely on resources extrinsic to the hand, either gravity, external contacts or dynamic arm motions. We refer to them as “extrinsic dexterity”. In this paper we study extrinsic dexterity in the context of regrasp operations, for example when switching from a power to a precision grasp, and we demonstrate that even simple grippers are capable of ample in-hand manipulation. We develop twelve regrasp actions, all open-loop and hand-scripted, and evaluate their effectiveness with over 1200 trials of regrasps and sequences of regrasps, for three different objects (see video [2]). The long-term goal of this work is to develop a general repertoire of these behaviors, and to understand how such a repertoire might eventually constitute a general-purpose in-hand manipulation capability. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1094302022-09-26T17:41:38Z Extrinsic dexterity: In-hand manipulation with external forces Paolini, Robert Tang, Bowei Srinivasa, Siddhartha S. Mason, Matthew T. Lundberg, Ivan Staab, Harald Fuhlbrigge, Thomas Chavan Dafle, Nikhil Narsingh Rodriguez Garcia, Alberto Erdmann, Michael A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Chavan Dafle, Nikhil Narsingh Rodriguez Garcia, Alberto Erdmann, Michael A. “In-hand manipulation” is the ability to reposition an object in the hand, for example when adjusting the grasp of a hammer before hammering a nail. The common approach to in-hand manipulation with robotic hands, known as dexterous manipulation [1], is to hold an object within the fingertips of the hand and wiggle the fingers, or walk them along the object's surface. Dexterous manipulation, however, is just one of the many techniques available to the robot. The robot can also roll the object in the hand by using gravity, or adjust the object's pose by pressing it against a surface, or if fast enough, it can even toss the object in the air and catch it in a different pose. All these techniques have one thing in common: they rely on resources extrinsic to the hand, either gravity, external contacts or dynamic arm motions. We refer to them as “extrinsic dexterity”. In this paper we study extrinsic dexterity in the context of regrasp operations, for example when switching from a power to a precision grasp, and we demonstrate that even simple grippers are capable of ample in-hand manipulation. We develop twelve regrasp actions, all open-loop and hand-scripted, and evaluate their effectiveness with over 1200 trials of regrasps and sequences of regrasps, for three different objects (see video [2]). The long-term goal of this work is to develop a general repertoire of these behaviors, and to understand how such a repertoire might eventually constitute a general-purpose in-hand manipulation capability. 2017-05-30T18:00:20Z 2017-05-30T18:00:20Z 2014-06 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-1-4799-3685-4 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109430 Dafle, Nikhil Chavan, Alberto Rodriguez, Robert Paolini, Bowei Tang, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Michael Erdmann, Matthew T. Mason, Ivan Lundberg, Harald Staab, and Thomas Fuhlbrigge. “Extrinsic Dexterity: In-Hand Manipulation with External Forces.” 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (May 2014). https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9284-503X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1119-4512 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907062 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Other univ. web domain |
| spellingShingle | Paolini, Robert Tang, Bowei Srinivasa, Siddhartha S. Mason, Matthew T. Lundberg, Ivan Staab, Harald Fuhlbrigge, Thomas Chavan Dafle, Nikhil Narsingh Rodriguez Garcia, Alberto Erdmann, Michael A. Extrinsic dexterity: In-hand manipulation with external forces |
| title | Extrinsic dexterity: In-hand manipulation with external forces |
| title_full | Extrinsic dexterity: In-hand manipulation with external forces |
| title_fullStr | Extrinsic dexterity: In-hand manipulation with external forces |
| title_full_unstemmed | Extrinsic dexterity: In-hand manipulation with external forces |
| title_short | Extrinsic dexterity: In-hand manipulation with external forces |
| title_sort | extrinsic dexterity in hand manipulation with external forces |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109430 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9284-503X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1119-4512 |
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