提出五指机器人手与任务分类体系,实现复杂电缆操作。
Dexterous Cable Manipulation: Taxonomy, Multi-Fingered Hand Design, and Long-Horizon Manipulation
- 构建电缆操作任务分类体系,揭示拇指与食指协同关键性。
- 设计25自由度双拇指五指手,支持电缆抓取、弯曲等动作。
- 开发非人形手的演示采集流程,突破传统动捕局限。
现有电缆操作研究多依赖两指夹爪,难以实现类人级操作。由于电缆的可变形性和不确定性,机器人灵巧电缆操作仍处于探索阶段。当前缺乏专门的任务定义、基准测试和评估指标,且多数灵巧手仅具单拇指结构,限制了操作效率。此外,现有通用方法在硬件适配性或泛化能力上不足。本文贡献包括:(1)构建涵盖短时动作基元与长时任务的完整电缆操作任务分类体系,发现拇指与食指协调对长时任务分解至关重要;(2)设计一种含25个自由度的五指机械手,配备双对称拇指-食指结构及指尖可旋转关节,支持灵巧电缆操作;(3)开发针对该非人形手的演示数据采集流程,克服传统动捕方法操作难题。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Existing research that addressed cable manipulation relied on two-fingered grippers, which make it difficult to perform similar cable manipulation tasks that humans perform. However, unlike dexterous manipulation of rigid objects, the development of dexterous cable manipulation skills in robotics remains underexplored due to the unique challenges posed by a cable's deformability and inherent uncertainty. In addition, using a dexterous hand introduces specific difficulties in tasks, such as cable grasping, pulling, and in-hand bending, for which no dedicated task definitions, benchmarks, or evaluation metrics exist. Furthermore, we observed that most existing dexterous hands are designed with structures identical to humans', typically featuring only one thumb, which often limits their effectiveness during dexterous cable manipulation. Lastly, existing non-task-specific methods did not have enough generalization ability to solve these cable manipulation tasks or are unsuitable due to the designed hardware. We have three contributions in real-world dexterous cable manipulation in the following steps: (1) We first defined and organized a set of dexterous cable manipulation tasks into a comprehensive taxonomy, covering most short-horizon action primitives and long-horizon tasks for one-handed cable manipulation. This taxonomy revealed that coordination between the thumb and the index finger is critical for cable manipulation, which decomposes long-horizon tasks into simpler primitives. (2) We designed a novel five-fingered hand with 25 degrees of freedom (DoF), featuring two symmetric thumb-index configurations and a rotatable joint on each fingertip, which enables dexterous cable manipulation. (3) We developed a demonstration collection pipeline for this non-anthropomorphic hand, which is difficult to operate by previous motion capture methods.
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