• Determining independent contacts regions to immobilize 2D articulated objects 

      Alvarado, Noe; Suárez Feijóo, Raúl; Roa, Máximo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
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      This paper deals with the problem of determining independent contacts regions (ICRs) on 2D articulated objects, such that a finger contact in each region guarantees a forceclosure (FC) immobilization, independently of the ...
    • Hand-object interaction: from human demonstrations to robot manipulation 

      Carfi, Alessandro; Patten, Timothy; Kuang, Yingyi; Hammoud, Ali; Alameh, Mohamad; Maiettini, Elisa; Weinberg, Abraham Itzhak; Faria, Diego; Mastrogiovanni, Fulvio; Alenyà Ribas, Guillem; Natale, Lorenzo; Perdereau, Veronique; Vincze, Markus; Billard, Aude (Frontiers Media SA, 2021-10-01)
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      Human-object interaction is of great relevance for robots to operate in human environments. However, state-of-the-art robotic hands are far from replicating humans skills. It is, therefore, essential to study how humans ...
    • Manipulation of unknown objects to improve the grasp quality using tactile information 

      Montaño Sarria, Andrés Felipe; Suárez Feijóo, Raúl (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2018-05-03)
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      This work presents a novel and simple approach in the area of manipulation of unknown objects considering both geometric and mechanical constraints of the robotic hand. Starting with an initial blind grasp, our method ...
    • Object detection methods for robot grasping: Experimental assessment and tuning 

      Rigual Aparici, Ferran; Ramisa Ayats, Arnau; Alenyà Ribas, Guillem; Torras, Carme (IOS Press, 2012)
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      In this work we address the problem of object detection for the purpose of object manipulation in a service robotics scenario. Several implementations of state-of-the-art object detection methods were tested, and the one ...
    • Robust Door Operation with the Toyota Human Support Robot. Robotic perception, manipulation and learning 

      Arduengo García, Miguel (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-02-21)
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      Realitzat a/amb:   University of Texas at Austin. Cockrell School of Engineering
      Robots are progressively spreading to urban, social and assistive domains. Service robots operating in domestic environments typically face a variety of objects they have to deal with to fulfill their tasks. Some of these ...