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Adapting Preshaped Grasping Movements Using Vision Descriptors
Grasping is one of the most important abilities needed for future service robots. In the task of picking up an object from between clutter, traditional robotics approaches would determine a suitable grasping point and then use a movement planner to reach the goal. The planner would require precise and accurate information about the environment and long computation times, both of which are often not available. Therefore, methods are needed that execute grasps robustly even with imprecise information gathered only from standard stereo vision. We propose techniques that reactively modify the robot‘s learned motor primitives based on non-parametric potential fields centered on the Early Cognitive Vision descriptors. These allow both obstacle avoidance, and the adapting of finger motions to the object‘s local geometry. The methods were tested on a real robot, where they led to improved adaptability and quality of grasping actions.
@inproceedings{6437, title = {Adapting Preshaped Grasping Movements Using Vision Descriptors}, journal = {From Animals to Animats 11: Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2010)}, booktitle = {From Animals to Animats 11}, abstract = {Grasping is one of the most important abilities needed for future service robots. In the task of picking up an object from between clutter, traditional robotics approaches would determine a suitable grasping point and then use a movement planner to reach the goal. The planner would require precise and accurate information about the environment and long computation times, both of which are often not available. Therefore, methods are needed that execute grasps robustly even with imprecise information gathered only from standard stereo vision. We propose techniques that reactively modify the robot‘s learned motor primitives based on non-parametric potential fields centered on the Early Cognitive Vision descriptors. These allow both obstacle avoidance, and the adapting of finger motions to the object‘s local geometry. The methods were tested on a real robot, where they led to improved adaptability and quality of grasping actions.}, pages = {156-166}, editors = {Doncieux, S. , B. Girard, A. Guillot, J. Hallam, J.-A. Meyer, J.-B. Mouret}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft}, school = {Biologische Kybernetik}, address = {Berlin, Germany}, month = aug, year = {2010}, slug = {6437}, author = {Kroemer, O. and Detry, R. and Piater, J. and Peters, J.}, month_numeric = {8} }