5 accepted papers
The strength of the human hand lies in its ability to manipulate objects precisely and robustly. In contrast, simple robotic grippers have low dexterity and fail to handle small objects effectively. This is why many automation tasks remain unsolved by robots. This paper presents an optimization-base
Calibration of fixtures in robotic work cells is essential but also time consuming and error-prone, and poor calibration can easily lead to wasted debugging time in down-stream tasks. Contact-based calibration methods let the user measure points on the fixture’s surface with a tool tip attached to t…
This paper presents a method for contact-based pose estimation of workpieces using a collaborative robot. The proposed pose estimation exploits positions and surface normal vectors along an arbitrary path on an object with known geometry, where surface normal vectors are estimated based on contact f…
This paper presents a framework for transferring surface finishing skills to new surface geometries while preserving the surface finish quality. The main idea is to estimate the contact area between the workpiece and the tool by using 3D point cloud approach and replicate a given material removal ra…
Humans play sports to improve their athletic ability. The robot, especially humanoid robot, is also able to improve its athletic performances, such as reaction speed and balancing, through robot sports. Therefore, robots have been developed through performing various robot sports events such as robo…