Proposal of a shape adaptive gripper for robotic assembly tasks

K Harada, K Nagata, J Rojas… - Advanced …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This paper proposes a novel robotic gripper used for assembly tasks that can adaptively
grasp objects with different shapes. The proposed hand has a combined structure between …

Simulation-based optimal motion planning for deformable object

E Yoshida, K Ayusawa… - … robotics and its …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a method for planning motions of a flexible objects based on precise
simulation using Finite Element Method (FEM). The proposed method is applied to ring …

Online robot introspection via wrench-based action grammars

J Rojas, S Luo, D Zhu, Y Du, H Lin… - 2017 IEEE/RSJ …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic failure is all too common in unstructured robot tasks. Despite well-designed
controllers, robots often fail due to unexpected events. Robots under a sense-plan-act …

Analysis of multimodal Bayesian nonparametric autoregressive hidden Markov models for process monitoring in robotic contact tasks

H Wu, Y Guan, J Rojas - International Journal of Advanced …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Robot introspection aids robots to understand what they do and how they do it. Previous
robot introspection techniques have often used parametric hidden Markov models or …

Robot introspection with bayesian nonparametric vector autoregressive hidden markov models

H Wu, H Lin, Y Guan, K Harada… - 2017 IEEE-RAS 17th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robot introspection, as opposed to anomaly detection typical in process monitoring, helps a
robot understand what it is doing at all times. A robot should be able to identify its actions not …

Endowing robots with longer-term autonomy by recovering from external disturbances in manipulation through grounded anomaly classification and recovery policies

S Luo, H Wu, S Duan, Y Lin, J Rojas - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic …, 2021 - Springer
Robots are poised to interact with humans in unstructured environments. Despite
increasingly robust control algorithms, failure modes arise whenever the underlying …

Early failure characterization of cantilever snap assemblies using the pa-rcbht

J Rojas, K Harada, H Onda… - … on Robotics and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Failure detection and correction is essential in robust systems. In robotics, failure detection
has focused on traditional parts assembly, tool breakage, and threaded fastener assembly …

Cantilever snap assemblies failure detection using svms and the rcbht

W Luo, J Rojas, TQ Guan, K Harada… - … on Mechatronics and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Failure detection plays an increasingly important role in industrial processes and robots that
serve in unstructured environments. This work studies failure detection on cantilever snap …

Robot contact task state estimation via position-based action grammars

J Rojas, Z Huang, K Harada - 2016 IEEE-RAS 16th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Uncertainty is a major difficulty in endowing robots with autonomy. Robots often fail due to
unexpected events. In robot contact tasks are often design to empirically look for force …

Learning movement assessment primitives for force interaction skills

X Zhang, AS Polydoros, J Piater - arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.04354, 2018 - arxiv.org
We present a novel, reusable and task-agnostic primitive for assessing the outcome of a
force-interaction robotic skill, useful eg\for applications such as quality control in industrial …