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Ammar Kothari

2 accepted papers

2018

Grasping Objects Big and Small: Human Heuristics Relating Grasp-Type and Object Size

ICRA 2018poster

This paper presents an online data collection method that captures human intuition about what grasp types are preferred for different fundamental object shapes and sizes. Survey questions are based on an adopted taxonomy that combines grasp pre-shape, approach, wrist orientation, object shape, orien…

Cited by 10SourceScholar
2018

Using human studies to analyze capabilities of underactuated and compliant hands in manipulation tasks

IROS 2018poster

We present a human-subjects study approach that supports the analysis of the manipulation performance of robotic hands that have the same morphology but different actuation and compliance. Specifically, we use this approach to analyze three different types of hands (one underactuated, one fully actu…

Cited by 11SourceScholar