Grasping in unstructured environments requires highly adaptable and versatile hands together with strategies to exploit their features to get robust grasps. This paper presents a method to grasp objects using a novel reconfigurable soft gripper with embodied constraints, the Soft ScoopGripper (SSG). The considered grasp strategy, called scoop grasp, exploits the SSG features to perform robust grasps. The embodied constraint, i.e., a scoop, is used to slide between the object and a flat surface (e.g., a table or a wall) in contact with it. The fingers are first configured according to object geometry and then used to establish reliable contact with it. Given the object to be grasped, the proposed grasp planner chooses the best configuration of the fingers and the scoop based on the object point cloud and then suitably aligns the gripper to it.

Grasp planning with a soft reconfigurable gripper exploiting embedded and environmental constraints / Turco, E.; Bo, V.; Pozzi, M.; Rizzo, A.; Prattichizzo, D.. - In: IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS. - ISSN 2377-3766. - 6:3(2021), pp. 5215-5222. [10.1109/LRA.2021.3072855]

Grasp planning with a soft reconfigurable gripper exploiting embedded and environmental constraints

Rizzo A.;
2021

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Grasping in unstructured environments requires highly adaptable and versatile hands together with strategies to exploit their features to get robust grasps. This paper presents a method to grasp objects using a novel reconfigurable soft gripper with embodied constraints, the Soft ScoopGripper (SSG). The considered grasp strategy, called scoop grasp, exploits the SSG features to perform robust grasps. The embodied constraint, i.e., a scoop, is used to slide between the object and a flat surface (e.g., a table or a wall) in contact with it. The fingers are first configured according to object geometry and then used to establish reliable contact with it. Given the object to be grasped, the proposed grasp planner chooses the best configuration of the fingers and the scoop based on the object point cloud and then suitably aligns the gripper to it.
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