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  • Journal article
    Rojas N, Dollar AM, 2016,

    Gross motion analysis of fingertip-based within-hand manipulation

    , IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol: 32, Pages: 1009-1016, ISSN: 1552-3098

    Fingertip-based within-hand manipulation, also called precision manipulation, refers to the repositioning of a grasped object within the workspace of a multifingered robot hand without breaking or changing the contact type between each fingertip and the object. Given a robot hand architecture and a set of assumed contact models, this paper presents a method to perform a gross motion analysis of its precision manipulation capabilities, regardless of the particularities of the object being manipulated. In particular, the technique allows the composition of the displacement manifold of the grasped object relative to the palm of the robot hand to be determined as well as the displacements that can be controlled-useful for high-level design and classification of hand function. The effects of a fingertip contacting a body in this analysis are modeled as kinematic chains composed of passive and resistant revolute joints; what permits the introduction of a general framework for the definition and classification of nonfrictional and frictional contact types. Examples of the application of the proposed method in several architectures of multifingered hands with different contact assumptions are discussed; they illustrate how inappropriate contact conditions may lead to uncontrollable displacements of the grasped object.
  • Journal article
    Jamisola RS, Kormushev P, Roberts RG, Caldwell DGet al., 2016,

    Task-Space Modular Dynamics for Dual-Arms Expressed through a Relative Jacobian

    , Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Pages: 1-14, ISSN: 1573-0409
  • Journal article
    Rojas N, Ma RR, Dollar AM, 2016,

    The GR2 gripper: an underactuated hand for open-loop in-hand planar manipulation

    , IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol: 32, Pages: 763-770, ISSN: 1552-3098

    Performing dexterous manipulation of unknown objects with robot grippers without using high-fidelity contact sensors, active/sliding surfaces, or a priori workspace exploration is still an open problem in robot manipulation and a necessity for many robotics applications. In this paper we present a two-fingered gripper topology that enables an enhanced predefined in-hand manipulation primitive controlled without knowing the size, shape, or other particulars of the grasped object. The in-hand manipulation behavior, namely, the planar manipulation of the grasped body, is predefined thanks to a simple hybrid low-level control scheme and has an increased range of motion due to the introduction of an elastic pivot joint between the two fingers. Experimental results with a prototype clearly show the advantages and benefits of the proposed concept. Given the generality of the topology and in-hand manipulation principle, researchers and designers working on multiple areas of robotics can benefit from the findings.
  • Book chapter
    Kormushev P, Ahmadzadeh SR, 2016,

    Robot Learning for Persistent Autonomy

    , Handling Uncertainty and Networked Structure in Robot Control, Editors: Busoniu, Tamás, Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Pages: 3-28, ISBN: 978-3-319-26327-4
  • Book chapter
    Ahmadzadeh SR, Kormushev P, 2016,

    Visuospatial Skill Learning

    , Handling Uncertainty and Networked Structure in Robot Control, Editors: Busoniu, Tamás, Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Pages: 75-99, ISBN: 978-3-319-26327-4
  • Conference paper
    Maurelli F, Lane D, Kormushev P, Caldwell D, Carreras M, Salvi J, Fox M, Long D, Kyriakopoulos K, Karras Get al., 2016,

    The PANDORA project: a success story in AUV autonomy

    , OCEANS Conference 2016, Publisher: IEEE, ISSN: 0197-7385

    This paper presents some of the results of the EU-funded project PANDORA - Persistent Autonomy Through Learning Adaptation Observation and Re-planning. The project was three and a half years long and involved several organisations across Europe. The application domain is underwater inspection and intervention, a topic particularly interesting for the oil and gas sector, whose representatives constituted the Industrial Advisory Board. Field trials were performed at The Underwater Centre, in Loch Linnhe, Scotland, and in harbour conditions close to Girona, Spain.
  • Book chapter
    Ma RR, Rojas N, Dollar AM, 2016,

    Towards predictable precision manipulation of unknown objects with underactuated fingers

    , Advances in Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots II, Editors: Ding, Kong, Dai, Cham, Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Pages: 927-937, ISBN: 978-3-319-23327-7

    This paper describes a new concept in underactuated hand design, motivated by a study of parallel mechanisms. Inspired by the end-effector motion and system reconfiguration in parallel wrists, we propose a morphology of fingers such that during fingertip precision manipulation the instantaneous screw axes, which describe the displacement of the grasped object respect to the palm of the hand, always intersect at the same known fixed point regardless of the object’s particularities. A physical hand was built to evaluate the feasibility of the design concept in improving precision manipulation capabilities while preserving power-grasping functionality. The tendon-driven hand is underactuated, with one actuator for each of the two-degree-of-freedom fingers, and passive rotary fingertips are used to minimize slip at contact points during manipulation. Experimental results with the hand demonstrate the effectiveness of the concept, thus encouraging further research in the area.
  • Conference paper
    Kryczka P, Kormushev P, Tsagarakis N, Caldwell DGet al., 2015,

    Online Regeneration of Bipedal Walking Gait Optimizing Footstep Placement and Timing
  • Conference paper
    Kormushev P, Demiris Y, Caldwell DG, 2015,

    Kinematic-free Position Control of a 2-DOF Planar Robot Arm
  • Journal article
    Carrera A, Palomeras N, Hurtós N, Kormushev P, Carreras Met al., 2015,

    Cognitive System for Autonomous Underwater Intervention

    , Pattern Recognition Letters, ISSN: 0167-8655
  • Conference paper
    Carrera A, Palomeras N, Hurtos N, Kormushev P, Carreras Met al., 2015,

    Learning multiple strategies to perform a valve turning with underwater currents using an I-AUV
  • Conference paper
    Ahmadzadeh SR, Paikan A, Mastrogiovanni F, Natale L, Kormushev P, Caldwell DGet al., 2015,

    Learning Symbolic Representations of Actions from Human Demonstrations
  • Conference paper
    Jamali N, Kormushev P, Carrera A, Carreras M, Caldwell DGet al., 2015,

    Underwater Robot-Object Contact Perception using Machine Learning on Force/Torque Sensor Feedback
  • Conference paper
    Kormushev P, Demiris Y, Caldwell DG, 2015,

    Encoderless Position Control of a Two-Link Robot Manipulator
  • Conference paper
    Jamisola RS, Kormushev P, Caldwell DG, Ibikunle Fet al., 2015,

    Modular Relative Jacobian for Dual-Arms and the Wrench Transformation Matrix
  • Conference paper
    Lane DM, Maurelli F, Kormushev P, Carreras M, Fox M, Kyriakopoulos Ket al., 2015,

    PANDORA - Persistent Autonomy through Learning, Adaptation, Observation and Replanning
  • Journal article
    Takano W, Asfour T, Kormushev P, 2015,

    Special Issue on Humanoid Robotics

    , Advanced Robotics, Vol: 29
  • Journal article
    Bimbo J, Kormushev P, Althoefer K, Liu Het al., 2015,

    Global Estimation of an Object’s Pose Using Tactile Sensing

    , Advanced Robotics, Vol: 29
  • Conference paper
    Ahmadzadeh SR, Kormushev P, Caldwell DG, 2014,

    Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for AUV Thruster Failure Recovery
  • Conference paper
    N Rojas, A M Dollar, 2014,

    Characterization of the precision manipulation capabilities of robot hands via the continuous group of displacements

    , 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Publisher: IEEE, Pages: 1601-1608, ISSN: 2153-0858

    In robot hands, precision manipulation, defined as repositioning of a grasped object within the hand workspace without breaking or changing contact, is a fundamental operation for the accomplishment of highly dexterous manipulation tasks. This paper presents a method to characterize the precision manipulation capabilities of a given robot hand regardless of the particularities of the grasped object. The technique allows determining the composition of the displacement manifold (finite motion) of the grasped object relative to the palm of the robot hand and defining the displacements that can actually be controlled by the hand actuators without depending on external factors to the hand. The approach is based on a reduction of the graph of kinematic constraints related to the hand-object system through proper manipulations of the continuous subgroups of displacements generated by the hand joints and contacts. The proposed method is demonstrated through three detailed and constructive examples of common architectures of simplified multi-fingered hands.

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