We describes a method for manipulating a threedimensional object without considering conventional three independent orthogonal views. We apply the direct manipulation method to operate the threedimensional object. We propose \augmented manipulation" method which is an enhanced direct manipulation technique by using additional information. We implement three-dimensional modeling tool \Claymore" ...

Direct manipulation is the operation in which users' operations directly invoke the reaction of the system (Shneiderman 1986). We apply the direct manipulation technique to operate a three-dimensional object. Some works on editing a three-dimensional object by using the direct manipulation technique have been proposed. But they require a special input device. We think it is beneficial to make u...

We describe research at the Stanford Dextrous Manipulation Lab centered around haptic exploration of objects with robot hands. The research areas include object acquisition and manipulation and object exploration with robot ngers to measure surface features, textures and friction. We assume that the robot is semi-autonomous; it can receive guidance or supervision from humans regarding object se...

The skill of object manipulation is a common feature of primates including humans, although there are species-typical patterns of manipulation. Object manipulation can be used as a comparative scale of cognitive development, focusing on its complexity. Nut cracking in chimpanzees has the highest hierarchical complexity of tool use reported in non-human primates. An analysis of the patterns of o...

This work describes a way of interactive manipulation of structured objects by interaction rules. Symbols are used as graphical representation of object states. State changes lead to different visual symbol instances. The manipulation of symbols using interactive devices lead to an automatic state change of the corresponding structured object without any intervention of the application. Therefo...

Dextrous manipulation planning is a problem of paramount importance in the study of multi ngered robotic hands. In this paper, we show in general, that all system variables (the nger joint, object,and contact velocities) need to be included in the di erential kinematic equation used for manipulation planning, even if the manipulation task is only speci ed in terms of the goal con guration of th...

Assistive robots designed for physical interaction with objects will play an important role in assisting mobility and fall prevention healthcare facilities. Autonomous mobile manipulation presents a hurdle prior to safely using real-life applications. In this article, we introduce framework based on model predictive control learned dynamics models of objects. We focus the specific problem manip...

This paper presents an efficient method to decide robust grasps given new objects using example-based learning. A robust grasp is a stable grasp, suitable for object manipulation. Adaptability to object manipulation is ensured by imitating the human choice of the object grasping component, its handle. Stability is obtained by computing contact points, ensuring force-closure property, on that ha...

by the hand movements performed by humans that are tracked by a magnetic tracking device [9]. These reported steps are important to understand some human behaviors before the object manipulation and can be used to endow a robot with autonomous capabilities, like showing how to reach some object for manipulation or object displacement.