Rapid and versatile object manipulation in air is an open challenge. An energy-efficient adaptive soft gripper combined with agile aerial vehicle could revolutionize robotic areas such as warehousing. This paper presents a bio-inspired powered by hydraulically amplified electrostatic actuators mounted to quadcopter that can interact safely naturally its environment. Our gripping concept motivat...

Dynamic Movement Primitives (DMP) are widely applied in movement representation due to their ability encode tasks using generalization properties. However, the coupled multiple DMP cannot be directly solved based on original formula. Prior works provide satisfactory performance for rigid object manipulation, but extension deformable objects may degrade intrinsic uncertainty of model structure a...

The human hand and the brain are close partners in two important and closely interconnected functions: exploration of the physical world and reshaping of parts of this world through manipulation. The highly versatile functions of the human hand depend on both its anatomical structure and the neural machinery that supports the hand. This article focuses on the sensorimotor control of hand moveme...

To recognize an action, an observer exploits information about the applied manipulation, the involved objects, and the context where the action occurs. Context, object, and manipulation information are hence expected to be tightly coupled in a triadic relationship (the COM triad hereafter). The current fMRI study investigated the hemodynamic signatures of reciprocal modulation in the COM triad....