3P1-S03 Realizing String Figures by Robot and Human Pair(Robot Hand Mechanism and Grasping Strategy (1))

Abstract

It is important to realize the robot handling soft objects. In this paper, we treat a string as an example of soft objects. Humans can create various figures with a string; we aim to develop a robot system that can do such a thing. We employ the string figures as the task. We propose a framework with which a robot can play string figures with a human. Concretely, we develop a description method that can represent a variety of procedures of string figures to be played by a robot and a human pair. In order to implement this framework on a dual-arm robot, we also develop a method to decide centers of loops to be picked up using camera images. This paper demonstrates the experimental results with a dual-arm robot Hiro-NX.