A survey of robotic caging and its applications

S Makita, W Wan - Advanced Robotics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a brief survey of robotic caging and its applications. Caging is a kind of
grasping methods, which can be accomplished geometrically by position-controlled robotic …

A survey of methods and strategies for high-precision robotic grasping and assembly tasks—Some new trends

R Li, H Qiao - IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Grasping and assembly are essential tasks in high-precision robotic manipulation for
industrial manufacturing as well as for home service applications. Many efforts have been …

Multirobot object transport via robust caging

W Wan, B Shi, Z Wang, R Fukui - IEEE transactions on systems …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a control algorithm to collectively transport an object using a group
of relatively low-cost robots. We address this problem using the robust caging, which …

Energy-bounded caging: Formal definition and 2-D energy lower bound algorithm based on weighted alpha shapes

J Mahler, FT Pokorny, Z McCarthy… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Caging grasps are valuable as they can be robust to bounded variations in object shape
and pose, do not depend on friction, and enable transport of an object without full …

Two-finger caging of polygonal objects using contact space search

TF Allen, JW Burdick, E Rimon - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multifinger caging offers a rigorous and robust object grasping approach. Focusing on two-
finger caging, this paper describes an algorithm for finding all two-finger cage formations of …

Vision-based caging grasps of polyhedron-like workpieces with a binary industrial gripper

J Su, H Qiao, Z Ou, ZY Liu - IEEE Transactions on Automation …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Development of a flexible low-cost robotic system to grasp various 3D workpieces is of
practical important. Traditional approaches on 3D grasping usually need to compute the …

Rope caging and grasping

TH Kwok, W Wan, J Pan, CCL Wang… - … on Robotics and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a novel method for caging grasps in this paper by stretching ropes on the
surface of a 3D object. Both topology and shape of a model to be grasped has been …

An adaptive planning framework for dexterous robotic grasping with grasp type detection

Z Deng, B Fang, B He, J Zhang - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
Dexterous grasping is one of the most fundamental abilities of robots to implement various
manipulation tasks. Robots should have the same ability as humans to plan various grasp …

Synthesis of energy-bounded planar caging grasps using persistent homology

J Mahler, FT Pokorny, S Niyaz… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For applications such as manufacturing, caging grasps restrict object motion without
requiring complete immobilization, providing a robust alternative to forceand form-closure …

Grasping objects: The relationship between the cage and the form-closure grasp

J Su, H Qiao, C Liu, Y Song… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In various industries, there is a need for low-cost, flexible robotic grasping systems that
handle and classify different items, which usually involve low-cost grippers and reliable …