Aimed at resolving the trajectory tracking control problem of aerial manipulation, this paper presents an manipulation system that consists a quadrotor unmanned vehicle (UAV) and two-degree-of-freedom manipulator. The adopted integrated strategy; is, rotor UAV manipulator were considered as whole, coupling effect was treated internal factor, whole taken research object to establish dynamic mode...

In this paper we introduce an online object manipulation system for the NAO robot that is able to detect and grasp an object out of a human hand and then give it back in real-time. Known objects are rendered from 3D models and detected stereo contour-based by using a new stereo vision head for NAO. In order to grasp objects, motion trajectories are generated by an A* planner while avoiding obst...

Object manipulation techniques in robotics can be categorized in two major groups including manipulation with grasp and manipulation without grasp. The original aim of this paper is to develop an object manipulation method where in addition to being grasp-less, the manipulation task is done in a passive approach. In this method, linear and angular positions of the object are changed and its man...

Humans excel in manipulation tasks, a basic skill for our survival and a key feature in our manmade world of artefacts and devices. In this work, we study how humans manipulate simple daily objects, and construct a probabilistic representation model for the tasks and objects useful for autonomous grasping and manipulation by robotic hands. Human demonstrations of predefined object manipulation ...

We address the problem of integrating heterogeneous data sources for collaborative environments such as Groupware systems. Pre-existing related distributed data is modeled by a composite object, where each data source is treated as a fragment of the composite object. We define a collection of methods which allow manipulation of the related distributed data in a controlled and consistent manner....

In this paper, a teleoperated nano scale object manipulation system is proposed, and requirements of such systems are defined. The system consists of a user interface utilizing visual and haptic displays (macro world), nano-manipulator, controller and sensors (nano world), and teleoperation control and rough to fine imaging and actuation tools (between macro and nano worlds). A home-made Atomic...

We develop a variant of Gordon and Hankin’s concurrent object calculus with support for flexible access control on methods. We investigate safe administration and access of shared resources in the resulting language. Specifically, we show a static type system that guarantees safe manipulation of objects with respect to dynamic specifications, where such specifications are enforced via access ch...

Digital holographic microscopy allows determination of dynamic changes in the optical thickness profile of a transparent object with sub-wavelength accuracy. Here, we report a quantitative phase laser microsurgery system for evaluation of cellular/ sub-cellular dynamic changes during laser micro-dissection. The proposed method takes advantage of the precise optical manipulation by the laser mic...

The field of Large-Scale Actuator Networks (LSANs) is a class of cyber-physical systems that is growing rapidly. One key application of LSANs is distributed manipulation. Distributed manipulation is a revolutionary application of this technology in the industrial sector. Examples of distributed manipulation include: vibrating plates, arrays of air jets, and mobile multi-robot teams. This paper ...

Contact forces of the hand are visually unobservable, but play a crucial role in understanding hand-object interactions. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised learning approach for manipulation event segmentation and manipulation event parsing. The proposed framework incorporates hand pose kinematics and contact forces using a low-cost easy-to-replicate tactile glove. We use a temporal gram...