Determination of seven frictionless fixturing points searching the object surface with a homogeneous deterministic distribution

The paper deals whit the problem of finding a form-closure fixturing of objects modeled whit triangular meshes and considering as quality measure the maximum wrench that the object can resist in any direction. Although a triangular mesh is a polyhedral representation of the object, the number of fac...

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Autores: Suárez Feijóo, Raúl|||0000-0002-3853-7095, Rosell Gratacòs, Jan|||0000-0003-4854-2370
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/746
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/746
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Robot hands
Robots
Grasping
Prensió d'objectes
Prensión de objetos
Manipulación de objetos
Manipulació d'objectes
Robots -- Sistemes de control -- Informes tècnics
Manipuladors (Mecanismes) -- Informes tècnics
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Robòtica
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Sumario:The paper deals whit the problem of finding a form-closure fixturing of objects modeled whit triangular meshes and considering as quality measure the maximum wrench that the object can resist in any direction. Although a triangular mesh is a polyhedral representation of the object, the number of faces is too large to allow a practical application of existing approaches for polyhedral objects, and therefore some search procedure have to be applied. In the proposed approach the search of contact points is done looking for points directly on the object boundary instead of on the wrench space. In this way, all the object surface is homogeneously considered, while the quality is evaluated in the wrench space. The procedure iteratively looks, using heuristic criteria, for sets of points that improve the quality. The procedure was implemented and some application examples are included in the paper to illustrate the performance