Special Issue: Robot Behavior. Adaptive Behavior. Tactile Based Robot Motions and Robot Motions for Tactile Sensing.

Tactile sensing in dexterous robot hands - Review

Tactile sensing is an essential element of autonomous dexterous robot hand manipulation. It provides information about forces of interaction and surface properties at points of contact between the robot fingers and the objects. Recent advancements in robot tactile sensing led to development of many computational techniques that exploit this important sensory channel. This paper reviews current ...

Human–Robot Tactile Interaction

In the field of service robotics, robots serve and assist human beings. It is natural for humans to directly interact with the robot via tactile interfaces. This paper introduces several kinds of tactile interactions between a user and the robot as well as interactions of the robot with the environment. All interactions are implemented in a single paradigm: Forces measured from tactile sensors ...

Tactile sensors for robot handling

Analytical Dynamic Modelling of Heel-off and Toe-off Motions for a 2D Humanoid Robot

The main objective of this article is to optimize the walking pattern of a 2D humanoid robot with heel-off and toe-off motions in order to minimize the energy consumption and maximize the stability margin. To this end, at first, a gait planning method is introduced based on the ankle and hip joint position trajectories. Then, using these trajectories and the inverse kinematics, the position tra...

Knowledge-based Specification of Robot Motions

In many cases, the success of a manipulation action performed by a robot is determined by how it is executed and by how the robot moves during the action. Examples are tasks such as unscrewing a bolt, pouring liquids and flipping a pancake. This aspect is often abstracted away in AI planning and action languages that assume that an action is successful as long as all preconditions are fulfilled...