Automatic optimal grasp planning based on found contact points
Marius Zoellner2008, 2008 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics
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Abstract
Automatic grasp planning systems are very important for service robots, which compute what forces should be exerted onto the object and how those forces can be applied by robotic hands. In this paper, a highly integrated grasp planning system is introduced. Initial grasp is computed in the grasp simulator GraspIt! combining hand preshapes and automatically generated approach directions. With fixed relative position and orientation between the robotic hand and object as by the initial grasp, all the contact points between the fingers and the object are efficiently found. A search process tries to improve the grasp quality by moving the fingers to its neighbored joint positions, and uses the corresponding contact points to the joint position to evaluate the grasp quality, until local maximum grasp quality is reached. Optimal forces for the found grasp is computed as a linear inequalities matrix problem, which are exerted onto the object using torque based finger impedance control during execution. Experiments on Schunk Anthropomorphic Hand with 13 degrees of freedom show that, using the introduced grasp planning system, the object can be grasped solidly with shift errors of only some millimeters.
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