3 accepted papers
The crewed exploration of Moon and Mars requires the construction and maintenance of infrastructure on the alien surfaces before a crew arrives. Robotic coworkers are envisioned to take over the physical labor required to set-up crew habitats, energy supplies, and return vehicles in the hazardous en
As the human race expands its horizon toward a multiplanetary existence, infrastructures on the target planets have to be constructed and maintained to pave the way for humans. The support of robotic coworkers plays a key role in setting up habitats, energy supplies, and return vehicles, until the c
This paper presents an adaptive and compliant approach-to-grasp strategy for multi-finger robotic hands, to improve the performance of autonomous grasping when encountering object position uncertainties. With the proposed approach-to-grasp strategy, the first robot finger to experience unexpected im…