Determining an object's shape with a blind tactile manipulator

  • Authors:
  • David Devereux;Paul Nutter;Robert Richardson

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK;School of Computer Science The University of Manchester Manchester, UK;School of Mechanical Engineering The University of Leeds Leeds, UK

  • Venue:
  • IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In situations where generating in internal representation of an object's shape can not be carried out via visual methods, such as in low light conditions or due to a hardware fault, an internal representation of the object must be built from tactile information alone. Existing methods for doing so rely on the availability of a complete force sensitive skin. The work described in this paper shows a method that requires no such equipment and in fact requires no external sensors at all. The method demonstrates that an accurate representation of the object can be built with the accuracy depending on the number of attempts at contacting the object. This internal representation of object can then be used for other tasks such as planning grasps.