Interactive Robotic Manipulation of Elastic Objects


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2018

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Conference Paper

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In this paper, we address the challenge of robotic manipulation of elastically deforming objects. To this end, we model elastic objects using the Finite Element Method. Through a quasi-static assumption, we leverage sensitivity analysis to mathematically model how changes in the robot's configuration affect the deformed shape of the object being manipulated. This enables an interactive, simulation-based control methodology, wherein user-specified deformations for the elastic objects are automatically mapped to joint angle commands. The optimization formulation we introduce is general, operates directly within a robot's workspace and can readily incorporate joint limits as well as collision avoidance between the links. We validate our control methodology on a YuMi® IRB 14000, which we use to manipulate a variety of elastic objects.

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2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

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3476 - 3481

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IEEE

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25th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018)

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09620 - Coros, Stelian / Coros, Stelian check_circle
02284 - NFS Digitale Fabrikation / NCCR Digital Fabrication

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