Transparent Grippers: Seeing While Grasping
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چکیده
While existing grippers execute manipulation tasks, they occlude parts of the objects they grasp as well as parts of the workspace from vision sensors. We present the concept of a transparent gripper that enables vision sensors to image an object without oc-clusion while it is being manipulated. The physics of refraction, total internal reeection, lens eeects, dispersion and transmittance are analyzed to determine the geometry and material properties of a practical transparent gripper. Algorithms are presented that compensate for image shifts caused by refraction. The experiments demonstrate the proposed gripper to be an eeective solution to a variety of problems, including , 3D object model generation.
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