The exploration and learning of new objects is an essential capability of a cognitive robot. In this paper we focus on making use of the robot’s manipulation abilities to learn complete object representations suitable for 3D object recognition. Taking control of the object allows the robot to focus on relevant parts of the images, thus bypassing potential pitfalls of purely bottom-up attention ...

For robots to be effective in human environments, they should be capable of successful task execution in unstructured environments. Of these, many task oriented manipulation behaviors executed by robots rely on model based grasping strategies and model based strategies require accurate object detection and pose estimation. Both these tasks are hard in human environment, since human environments...

Distributed manipulation systems induce motions on objects through the application of many external forces. An actuator array performs distributed manipulation using a planar array of many small stationary elements (which are called cells) that cooperate to manipulate larger objects. Typically, highly dense actuator arrays are modeled as spatially continuous, programmable force fields, although...

1995 Robot Competition and Exhibition, held in conjunction with the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, was the culmination of a three-month design and implementation period for an indoor navigation system for topological maps. This article describes the major components of the robot’s navigation architecture. It also summarizes the experiences and lessons lear...

Integrated proj ect support environments (IPSEs) are intended to provide a cohesive and integrated set of tools to support the process of design and development in software engineering projects. Much current research is concentrated on maximising the degree to which these tools can be integrated. This paper briefly describes the architecture of a prototype IPSE which atternpts to achieve a high...

This article describes a project undertaken to explore programming physical operations on complex flexible objects. Uncertainty about the exact state of the object makes it impossible to precisely specify the actions to be performed at the time the program is written. Furthermore, the detailed consequences of manipulations on flexible objects cannot be determined before the action is performed....

the presence of an unknown environment, have been proposed [8]. The Object Impedance Control (OIC), an extension of impedance control, has been developed for multiple robotic arms manipulating a common object [9]. The OIC enforces a designated impedance not of an individual manipulator endpoint, but of the manipulated object itself. A combination of feedforward and feedback controls is employed...

Task influence has long been known to play a major role in the way our eyes scan a scene. Interestingly, how the task modulates attention when interacting with objects has been less investigated. Only few studies have contrasted the distribution of eye fixations during viewing and grasping objects. How is attention differently deployed when different actions have to be planned on objects in con...

In this paper, we suggest a mo indirect 3D object manipulation method information in an augmented reality environm we propose 1) a method that exploits a 2D 3DOF accelerometer, and compass sensors manipulate 3D objects in 3D space, 2) design t to map the control space of mobile phones reality (AR) display space, and 3) confirm the transfer functions by implementation. Our applicable to the desi...

Title of Document: MULTI-DIGIT MANIPULATION OF A CIRCULAR OBJECT Junfeng Huang, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Directed By: Associate Professor, Jae Kun Shim Department of Kinesiology Multi-digit prehension tasks are commonly encountered in our daily activities. Previous studies investigated behavioral characteristics and neuromuscular mechanisms during manipulation actions. The purpose of this dis...