9 accepted papers
Contact-rich manipulation demands human-like integration of perception and force feedback: vision should guide task progress, while high-frequency interaction control must stabilize contact under uncertainty. Existing learning-based policies often entangle these roles in a monolithic network, tradin…
Many manipulation tasks require memory beyond the current observation, yet most visuomotor policies rely on the Markov assumption and thus struggle with repeated states or long-horizon dependencies. Existing methods attempt to extend observation horizons but remain insufficient for diverse memory re…
The dynamics coupling between motion and force subspaces in robotic control poses significant challenges to ensuring force control robustness, particularly under large external disturbances. While actively shaping the system inertia can eliminate this coupling, it introduces additional disturbances
The dynamics coupling between motion and force subspaces in robotic control poses significant challenges to ensuring force control robustness, particularly under large external disturbances. While actively shaping the system inertia can eliminate this coupling, it introduces additional disturbances …
To achieve precise motion force control (MFC) when a robot interacts with the environment, selecting an appropriate control approach is crucial. A task space disturbance wrench can induce coupled accelerations between different subspaces due to the inherent coupling of task space inertia. Shaping th
A novel method is presented for efficiently testing the stability of an object under gravity and contact forces, that accommodates empirical determination of the set of admissible forces exerted at contacting pairs of surfaces. These admissible force volumes may exhibit a wide variety of geometries…
We present a new palm design that features a dense array of micro-spines for the JPL Robosimian human-scale climbing robot. A linearly-constrained spine mechanism is introduced and analyzed using adhesion and stiffness models. This mechanism achieves a spine density of 19/cm2 and a mean adhesion of…
Pinching is an important capability for mobile robots handling small items or tools. Successful pinching requires force-closure and, in underwater applications, gentle suction flow at the fingertips can dramatically improve the handling of light objects by counteracting the negative effects of water…
We present a light, actuated smart staff with 5DOF tip force sensing which can be used by a humanoid robot operating in challenging terrain. The staff has an extension mechanism that employs mechanical multiplexing to achieve a high extension ratio in a stiff and compact package. The tip force senso…