The gripper finger design is a recurring problem in many robotic grasping platforms used in industry. The task of switching the gripper configuration to accommodate a new batch of objects typically requires engineering expertise and is a lengthy and costly iterative trial-and-error process. One of the open challenges is the need for the gripper to compensate for uncertainties inherent to the workcell, e.g. due to errors in calibration, inaccurate pose estimation from the vision system, or object deformation. In this paper, we present an analysis of gripper uncertainty compensating capabilities in a sample industrial object grasping scenario for a finger that was designed using an automated simulation-based geometry optimization method (Wolniakowski et al., 2013, 2015). We test the developed gripper with a set of grasps subjected to structured perturbation in a simulation environment and in the real-world setting. We provide a comparison of the data obtained by using both of these approaches. We argue that the strong correspondence observed in results validates the use of dynamic simulation for the gripper finger design and optimization.


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    Title :

    Compensating Pose Uncertainties through Appropriate Gripper Finger Cutouts



    Publication date :

    2018-03-01


    Remarks:

    Wolniakowski , A , Gams , A , Kiforenko , L , Kramberger , A , Chrysostomou , D-C , Madsen , O , Miatliuk , K , Petersen , H G , Hagelskjær , F , Buch , A G , Ude , A & Krüger , N 2018 , ' Compensating Pose Uncertainties through Appropriate Gripper Finger Cutouts ' , Acta Mechanica et Automatica , vol. 12 , no. 1 , pp. 78-83 . https://doi.org/10.2478/ama-2018-0013



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    629



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