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Tube Acceleration: Robust Dexterous Throwing Against Release Uncertainty

Liu, Yang  
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Billard, Aude  orcid-logo
January 1, 2024
Ieee Transactions On Robotics

In robotic throwing, the release phase involves complex dynamic interactions due to object deformation and limited gripper opening speed, often resulting in inaccurate and nonrepeatable throws. While data-driven methods can be employed to compensate for the release uncertainty, the generalizability of learned models to unseen objects is not guaranteed, and object-specific fine-tuning with new data may be required. This fine-tuning process raises concerns about the scalability of such methods for dexterous throwing, where the robot needs to execute diverse motions for throwing various objects. Instead of case-by-case fine-tuning, we aim at designing throwing motion robust against release uncertainty. We encapsulate all uncertainties resulting from complex contact dynamics in a surrogate model of their resulting effect on gripper opening delay. We introduce the notion of tube acceleration to model the class of constant-acceleration motion in joint space that guarantees a release within the set of valid throwing configurations. We propose a convex relaxation of the primal optimization problem with a tight error bound and evaluate its performance in terms of reliability and efficiency. Results show that the approach offers run-time performance to allow online computation of throws on a 7-DoF robot arm. It achieves a high accuracy and success rate (97% for planar throws) at throwing a variety of complex objects, even when using a simple ballistic model for the object's flying dynamics.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/TRO.2024.3386391
Web of Science ID

WOS:001224407500003

Author(s)
Liu, Yang  
Billard, Aude  orcid-logo
Date Issued

2024-01-01

Publisher

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc

Published in
Ieee Transactions On Robotics
Volume

40

Start page

2831

End page

2849

Subjects

Technology

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Dexterous Manipulation

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Dynamic Manipulation

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Manipulation Planning

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Robust/Adaptive Control Of Robotic Systems

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
LASA  
FunderGrant Number

EU project DARKO

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June 19, 2024
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