3 papers
cs.RO2024
SoGraB: A Visual Method for Soft Grasping Benchmarking and Evaluation
Benjamin G. Greenland, Josh Pinskier, Xing Wang +5
Recent years have seen soft robotic grippers gain increasing attention due to their ability to robustly grasp soft and fragile objects. However, a commonly available standardised e…
cs.RO2024
DexGrip: Multi-modal Soft Gripper with Dexterous Grasping and In-hand Manipulation Capacity
Xing Wang, Liam Horrigan, Josh Pinskier +6
The ability of robotic grippers to not only grasp but also re-position and re-orient objects in-hand is crucial for achieving versatile, general-purpose manipulation. While recent…
cs.CE2023
Topology optimization of fluidic pressure-driven multi-material compliant mechanisms
Prabhat Kumar, Josh Pinskier, David Howard +1
Compliant mechanisms actuated by pneumatic loads are receiving increasing attention due to their direct applicability as soft robots that perform tasks using their flexible bodies.…