Abstract

Abstract Control of robots manipulating objects using only the sense of touch is a challenge. In-hand motion of the manipulated object highly depends on the friction forces acting at the contact surfaces. Soft contacts allow torsional frictions as well as friction forces, therefore robots can perform more complex manipulation abilities, like object pivoting. Control of the pivoting sliding motion is very difficult especially without any visual feedback. The paper proposes a novel method to control the sliding velocity of the object by using a simple parallel gripper endowed with force/tactile sensors only. The strategy is based on a nonlinear observer that estimates the sliding velocity from force/torque measurements and a model of the sliding dynamics.

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