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The Hand-bot, a Robot Design for Simultaneous Climbing and Manipulation

Bonani, Michael  
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Magnenat, Stéphane  
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Rétornaz, Philippe  
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Xie, Ming
2009
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications
Second International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications

We present a novel approach to mobile object manipulation for service in indoor environments. Current research in service robotics focus on single robots able to move, manipulate objects, and transport them to various locations. Our approach differs by taking a collective robotics perspective: different types of small robots perform different tasks and exploit complementarity by collaborating together. We propose a robot design to solve one of these tasks: climbing vertical structures and manipulating objects. Our robot embeds two manipulators that can grasp both objects or structures. To help climbing, it uses a rope to compensate for the gravity force. This allows it to free one of its manipulators to interact with an object while the other grasps a part of a structure for stabilization. Our robot can launch and retrieve the rope autonomously, allowing multiple ascents. We show the design and the implementation of our robot and demonstrate the successful autonomous retrieval of a book from a shelf.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-10817-4_2
Web of Science ID

WOS:000279602600002

Author(s)
Bonani, Michael  
Magnenat, Stéphane  
Rétornaz, Philippe  
Mondada, Francesco  
Editors
Xie, Ming
Date Issued

2009

Publisher

Springer-Verlag

Publisher place

Berlin Heidelberg

Published in
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications
Series title/Series vol.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 5928

Volume

5928

Start page

11

End page

22

Subjects

[MOBOTS]

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robotics

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microengineering

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climbing

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handbot

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manipulation

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swarmanoid

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mobile robots

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rope launcher

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aseba

URL

URL

http://icira2009.robotics.sg/
Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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LSRO  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
Second International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications

Singapore

16 - 18 December, 2009

Available on Infoscience
September 29, 2009
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/42979
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