TR2024-053
Tactile Estimation of Extrinsic Contact Patch for Stable Placement
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- "Tactile Estimation of Extrinsic Contact Patch for Stable Placement", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), DOI: 10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611504}, May 2024, pp. 13876-13882.BibTeX TR2024-053 PDF
- @inproceedings{Ota2024may2,
- author = {Ota, Kei and Jha, Devesh K. and Jatavallabhula, Krishna and Kanezaki, Asako and Tenenbaum, Joshua B.}},
- title = {Tactile Estimation of Extrinsic Contact Patch for Stable Placement},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
- year = 2024,
- pages = {13876--13882},
- month = may,
- publisher = {IEEE},
- doi = {10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611504}},
- isbn = {979-8-3503-8457-4},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-053}
- }
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- "Tactile Estimation of Extrinsic Contact Patch for Stable Placement", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), DOI: 10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611504}, May 2024, pp. 13876-13882.
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Precise perception of contact interactions is essential for fine-grained manipulation skills for robots. In this paper, we present the design of feedback skills for robots that must learn to stack complex-shaped objects on top of each other (see Fig. 1). To design such a system, a robot should be able to reason about the stability of placement from very gentle contact interactions. Our results demonstrate that it is possible to infer the stability of object placement based on tactile readings during contact formation between the object and its environment. In particular, we estimate the contact patch between a grasped object and its environment using force and tactile observations to estimate the stability of the object during a contact formation. The contact patch could be used to estimate the stability of the object upon release of the grasp. The proposed method is demonstrated in various pairs of objects that are used in a very popular board game.
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Where: Yokohama, Japan
MERL Contacts: Anoop Cherian; Radu Corcodel; Stefano Di Cairano; Chiori Hori; Siddarth Jain; Devesh K. Jha; Jonathan Le Roux; Diego Romeres; William S. Yerazunis
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Optimization, Robotics, Speech & AudioBrief- MERL made significant contributions to both the organization and the technical program of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024, which was held in Yokohama, Japan from May 13th to May 17th.
MERL was a Bronze sponsor of the conference, and exhibited a live robotic demonstration, which attracted a large audience. The demonstration showcased an Autonomous Robotic Assembly technology executed on MELCO's Assista robot arm and was the collaborative effort of the Optimization and Robotics Team together with the Advanced Technology department at Mitsubishi Electric.
MERL researchers from the Optimization and Robotics, Speech & Audio, and Control for Autonomy teams also presented 8 papers and 2 invited talks covering topics on robotic assembly, applications of LLMs to robotics, human robot interaction, safe and robust path planning for autonomous drones, transfer learning, perception and tactile sensing.
- MERL made significant contributions to both the organization and the technical program of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024, which was held in Yokohama, Japan from May 13th to May 17th.
Related Publication
- @article{Ota2023sep,
- author = {Ota, Kei and Jha, Devesh K. and Jatavallabhula, Krishna Murthy and Kanezaki, Asako and Tenenbaum, Joshua B.},
- title = {Tactile Estimation of Extrinsic Contact Patch for Stable Placement},
- journal = {arXiv},
- year = 2023,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14552}
- }