robotics

Robot, pass me the tool: handle visibility facilitates task-oriented handovers

A VR study showing that handle visibility improves perceived holdability and immediate usability during robot-to-human tool handovers.

PrendoSim: Proxy-Hand-Based Robot Grasp Generator

The synthesis of realistic robot grasps in a simulated environment is pivotal in generating datasets that support sim-to-real transfer learning. In a step toward achieving this goal, we propose PrendoSim, an open-source grasp generator based on a …

Exploratory reach-to-grasp trajectories for uncertain object poses

This work addresses the problem of planning the reach-to-grasp trajectory for a robotic arm and hand, when there is uncertainty in the pose of the object being grasped. If the object is not in its expected location, then the robot may still gain …