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We present a complete software architecture for reliable grasping of household objects. Our work combines aspects such as scene interpretation from 3D range data, grasp planning, motion planning, and grasp failure identification and recovery using tactile sensors. We build upon, and add several new contributions to the significant prior work in these areas. A salient feature of our work is the tight coupling between perception (both visual and tactile) and manipulation, aiming to address the uncertainty due to sensor and execution errors. This integration effort has revealed new challenges, some of which can be addressed through system and software engineering, and some of which present opportunities for future research. Our approach is aimed at typical indoor environments, and is validated by long running experiments where the PR2 robotic platform was able to consistently grasp a large variety of known and unknown objects. The set of tools and algorithms for object grasping presented here have been integrated into the open-source Robot Operating System (ROS).
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Ciocarlie, M., Hsiao, K., Jones, E.G., Chitta, S., Rusu, R.B., Şucan, I.A. (2014). Towards Reliable Grasping and Manipulation in Household Environments. In: Khatib, O., Kumar, V., Sukhatme, G. (eds) Experimental Robotics. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 79. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28572-1_17
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