Abstract-Humanoid robots must be capable of interacting with the world using their hands. A variety of humanlike robot hands have been constructed, but it remains difficult to control these hands in a dexterous way. One challenge is grasp synthesis, where we wish to place the hand and control its shape to successfully grasp a given object. In this paper, we present a datadriven approach to grasp synthesis that treats grasping as a shape matching problem. We begin with a database of grasp examples. Given a model of a new object to be grasped (the query), shape features of the object are compared to shape features of hand poses in these examples in order to identify candidate grasps. For effective retrieval, we develop a novel shape matching algorithm that can accommodate the sparse shape information associated with hand pose and that considers relative placements of contact points and normals, which are important for grasp function. We illustrate our approach with examples using a model of the human hand.
Li and Pollard REF introduce a shape-matching algorithm that consults a database of known hand shapes for suitably grasping an object given its oriented point representations.
A shape matching algorithm for synthesizing humanlike enveloping grasps
5th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2005.
5th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2005.
Computer Science