| Pose from Pushing (1996) | |||||||||||||||
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| In the absence of vision, grasping an object often relies on tactile feedback from the fingertips. Before force closure is formed, where on the object a fingertip touches can usually be felt from the motion of contact on the fingertip during a small amount of pushing. In this paper we investigate the first stage of such "blind" grasping. More specifically, we study the problem of determining the pose of a known planar object by pushing. Assuming sliding friction in the plane, a dynamic analysis of pushing results in a numerical algorithm that computes the object pose from three instantaneous contact positions on a pusher. Simulations and experiments (with an Adept robot) have been conducted to demonstrate the sensing feasibility. Inspired by the way a human hand grasps, this work can be viewed as a primitive step in exploring interactive sensing in grasping tasks. 1 Introduction Part sensing and grasping are two fundamental operations in automated assembly. Traditionally, they are per... | |||||||||||||||
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