We present an approach for autonomous learning of dextrous manipulation skills. We use heuristics derived from observations made on human hands to reduce the degrees of freedom of the task and make learning tractable. Our approach consists of learning and storing a few basis manipulation primitives for a few prototypical objects and then using a nearest-neighbor method to compute the required p...

Multi-fingered hands could be used to achieve many dexterous manipulation tasks, similarly humans, and tactile sensing enhance the stability for a variety of objects. However, sensors on multi-fingered have sizes shapes. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) can useful processing information, but information from needs an arbitrary pre-processing, as CNNs require rectangularly shaped input, which...

like bodily, physiological, and psychological skills which are commonly assessed in professional sport, assessment of visual skills is also of high importance. in this regard, and in order to organize teams efficiently, the skills of each player, considering his/her post in the pitch, should be developed for superiority over the opponent. the present study attempts to clarify if there is a mean...

Osteopathic manipulative medicine researchers often use sham therapy as the placebo control during clinical trials. Optimally, the sham therapy should be a hands-on procedure that is perceptually indistinguishable from osteopathic manipulative treatment, does not create an effect on its own, and is not a treatment intervention. However, the sham therapy itself may often influence the outcome. T...

OBJECTIVES This study examines the age-related increase of in-hand manipulation, the consistency of using a manipulation strategy, and the relationship between the frequency of in-hand manipulation and activities that typically require use of intrinsic hand control. METHOD Children (N = 184) between 2 years and 7 years of age were observed during selected activities that could elicit three fo...