See, Recognize, Grasp

Reality Does Not Recognize Borders

Reality does not recognize borders. Why we should use the very general term of “reality” and not science, because the borders that we draw are pure delusions, and on the opposite side there is the reality. The laws of the universe, either the physical nature of the world which the scientist studies or metaphysics which is the territory of philosophers, it isthe same reality that rules. Today ma...

Learning to See Where and What: Training a Net to Make Saccades and Recognize Handwritten Characters

This paper describes an approach to integrated segmentation and recognition of hand-printed characters. The approach, called Saccade, integrates ballistic and corrective saccades (eye movements) with character recognition. A single backpropagation net is trained to make a classification decision on a character centered in its input window, as well as to estimate the distance of the current and ...

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Grasp Invariance

This paper introduces a principle to guide the design of finger form: invariance of contact geometry over some continuum of varying shape and/or pose of the grasped object in the plane. Specific applications of this principle include scaleinvariant and pose-invariant grasps. Under specific conditions, the principle gives rise to spiral shaped fingers, including logarithmic spirals and straight ...

Grasp Functions

When manipulating parts, it is important to determine the orientation of the part with respect to thegripper. This orientation may not be known precisely or may be disturbed by the act of grasping. It isin some cases possible to use mechanical compliance to orient parts during grasping. It was recentlyshown [14] that any part with polygonal boundary can be oriented and grasped i...