Competent assistant robots need to understand their environment to be able to perform skilled manipulation tasks. One way of achieving it is to have knowledge about the physical behaviour of objects and how they respond ...

Currently one of the most important challenges is to bring robots out of factory floors to work alongside humans. Because these environments are characterized by a very large variety of objects, a key factor is to provide ...

This paper gives an overview of a robotic architecture meant for skillful manipulation. This design is meant to close the gap between the high level layer (reasoning and planing layer) and the object model system (physical ...

When a robot is designed, usually the weight of the same motors limits the maximum payload of the robot. While the designer tries to increase the power of the motors to give the robot better payload capacity, by doing so, ...

Un sistema confiable de manipulación de objetos requiere de percepción sofisticada. Aspectos importantes de este sistema es ser capaz de detectar la forma, tamaño y pose de los objetos a manipular. Estas capacidades se ...