A robotic manipulator is one type of popular industrial robot which has a shape and movement that resemble human arm. Robotic Manipulator mainly consists base, arm, gripper, control system. This research focused on the aspect manipulators to handle 1.25 kgf load through experiment as model with inverse kinematics. The design uses 5 degrees freedom using servo motor its actuator achieve an accur...

We present a computational model of grasping of non-fixated (extrafoveal) target objects which is implemented on a robot setup, consisting of a robot arm with cameras and gripper. This model is based on the premotor theory of attention (Rizzolatti et al., 1994) which states that spatial attention is a consequence of the preparation of goal-directed, spatially coded movements (especially saccadi...

Mobile mechanical manipulators are one of the automation aspects which were revealed in last years of twentieth century. These machines assume the responsibility of human and gradually expand the domain of their activities in industry. This paper is a presentation of the Sweeper Robot designed in the Robotic Laboratory of Iran University of Science and Technology. The original design of this ro...

This paper proposes a new method for grasping an object positioned in a cluttered workspace. The grasping of an object usually relies on the analysis of its contour in order to determine the contact points for the ngers of the gripper. The planning of the positioning of the real gripper in the workspace at the chosen points is often considered as a separate problem. The method proposed in this ...

The development of universal grippers able to pick up unfamiliar objects of widely varying shapes and surfaces is a very challenging task. Passively compliant underactuated mechanisms are one way to obtain the gripper which could accommodate any irregular and sensitive grasping object. The purpose of the underactuation is to use the power of one actuator to drive the opening and closing motion ...

We want to build robots that are useful in unstructured real world applications, such as doing work in the household. Grasping in particular is an important skill in this domain, yet it remains a challenge. One of the key hurdles is handling unexpected changes or motion in the objects being grasped and kinematic noise or other errors in the robot. This paper proposes an approach to learning a c...

Miniature, lightweight, low-cost actuators that consume low-power can be used to develop unmatched robotic devices to make an impact on many technology areas. Electroactive polymers (EAP) actuators offer the potential to produce such devices and they induce relatively large bending and longitudinal actuation strains. This reported study is concentrating on the development of effective EAPs and ...

The development of a novel polymer-based micro robotic gripper that can be actuated in a liquid medium is presented in this paper. The basic structure for the gripper is a trimorph thermal actuator with a platinum metal heater encapsulated by poly-para-xylylene C (parylene C) polymer layers. Due to the large difference of thermal expansion coefficients of the different layers, the actuator can ...

This paper describes a system that combines stereo vision with a 5-DOF robotic manipulator, to enable it to locate and reach for objects by sight. Our system uses an affine stereo algorithm, a simple but robust approximation to the geometry of stereo vision, to estimate positions and surface orientations. It can be calibrated very easily with just four reference points. These are defined by the...