Design of a Multi-Modal End-Effector and Grasping System: How Integrated Design helped win the Amazon Robotics Challenge

نویسندگان

  • S. Wade-McCue
  • N. Kelly-Boxall
  • M. McTaggart
  • D. Morrison
  • Adam W. Tow
  • J. Erskine
  • R. Grinover
  • A. Gurman
  • T. Hunn
  • D. Lee
  • Anton Milan
  • Trung Pham
  • G. Rallos
  • A. Razjigaev
  • T. Rowntree
  • R. Smith
  • K. Vijay
  • Z. Zhuang
  • Christopher F. Lehnert
  • Ian D. Reid
  • Peter I. Corke
  • Jürgen Leitner
چکیده

We present the grasping system behind Cartman, the winning robot in the 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge. The system makes strong use of redundancy in design by implementing complimentary tools, a suction gripper and a parallel gripper. This multi-modal end-effector is combined with three grasp synthesis algorithms to accommodate the range of objects provided by Amazon during the challenge. We provide a detailed system description and an evaluation of its performance before discussing the broader nature of the system with respect to the key aspects of robotic design as initially proposed by the winners of the first Amazon Picking Challenge. To address the principal nature of our grasping system and the reason for its success, we propose an additional robotic design aspect ‘precision vs. redundancy’.

برای دانلود رایگان متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

An LPV Approach to Sensor Fault Diagnosis of Robotic Arm

One of the major challenges in robotic arms is to diagnosis sensor fault. To address this challenge, this paper presents an LPV approach. Initially, the dynamics of a two-link manipulator is modelled with a polytopic linear parameter varying structure and then by using a descriptor system approach and a robust design of a suitable unknown input observer by means of pole placement method along w...

متن کامل

طراحی و ساخت مکانیزم بردارنده و انتقال دهنده میوه‌‌های کروی شکل

The objective of this research was to design and develope a Pick and Position system to displace spherical-shaped fruits, with minimum damage to flesh, from one specific place to another. A mechanical gripper (end-effector) suitable for grasping spherical-shaped fruits with 5-9 cm in diameter was designed and developed. The primary goal of the gripper design was to take and release the fruit wi...

متن کامل

طراحی و ساخت مکانیزم بردارنده و انتقال دهنده میوه‌‌های کروی شکل

The objective of this research was to design and develope a Pick and Position system to displace spherical-shaped fruits, with minimum damage to flesh, from one specific place to another. A mechanical gripper (end-effector) suitable for grasping spherical-shaped fruits with 5-9 cm in diameter was designed and developed. The primary goal of the gripper design was to take and release the fruit wi...

متن کامل

Modular, reconfigurable prehensor for grasping and handling limp materials in the shoe industry

The paper presents an innovative prehensor developed within the European project EUROShoE. This prehensor enables multi-point grasp, firm hold and a gentle transfer of limp items. It is the end-effector of an high speed manipulator, acting in co-operation with other manufacturing units. Shoe and clothing industries, aiming today at a dramatic renovation of the concept of the goods from mass pro...

متن کامل

Modifying a Conventional Grasping Control Approach for Undesired Slippage Control in Cooperating Manipulator Systems

There have been many researches on object grasping in cooperating systems assuming no object slippage and stable grasp and the control system is designed to keep the contact force inside the friction cone to prevent the slippage. However undesired slippage can occur due to environmental conditions and many other reasons. In this research, dynamic analysis and control synthesis of a cooperating ...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1710.01439  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017