Grasp'd: Differentiable contact-rich grasp synthesis for multi-fingered hands

D Turpin, L Wang, E Heiden, YC Chen… - … on Computer Vision, 2022 - Springer
The study of hand-object interaction requires generating viable grasp poses for high-
dimensional multi-finger models, often relying on analytic grasp synthesis which tends to …

Fast-Grasp'D: Dexterous Multi-finger Grasp Generation Through Differentiable Simulation

D Turpin, T Zhong, S Zhang, G Zhu… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-finger grasping relies on high quality training data, which is hard to obtain: human data
is hard to transfer and synthetic data relies on simplifying assumptions that reduce grasp …

[HTML][HTML] Robot Grasp Planning: A Learning from Demonstration-Based Approach

K Wang, Y Fan, I Sakuma - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
Robot grasping constitutes an essential capability in fulfilling the complexities of advanced
industrial operations. This field has been extensively investigated to address a range of …

Towards very low-cost iterative prototyping for fully printable dexterous soft robotic hands

D Bauer, C Bauer, A Lakshmipathy… - 2022 IEEE 5th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design and fabrication of soft robot hands is still a time-consuming and difficult process.
Advances in rapid prototyping have significantly accelerated the fabrication process while …

Contact edit: Artist tools for intuitive modeling of hand-object interactions

AS Lakshmipathy, N Feng, YX Lee, M Mahler… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Posing high-contact interactions is challenging and time-consuming, with hand-object
interactions being especially difficult due to the large number of degrees of freedom (DOF) of …

Multi-Finger Grasping Like Humans

Y Du, P Weinzaepfel, V Lepetit… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robots with multi-fingered grippers could perform advanced manipulation tasks for us if we
were able to properly specify to them what to do. In this study, we take a step in that direction …

Object-centric grasping transferability: Linking meshes to postures

D Hidalgo-Carvajal, CMCO Valle… - 2022 IEEE-RAS 21st …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Attaining human hand manipulation capabilities is a sought-after goal of robotic
manipulation. Several works have focused on understanding and applying human …

Functional Eigen-Grasping Using Approach Heatmaps

M Aburub, K Higashi, W Wan, K Harada - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.11681, 2024 - arxiv.org
This work presents a framework for a robot with a multi-fingered hand to freely utilize daily
tools, including functional parts like buttons and triggers. An approach heatmap is generated …