Manipulation of paper is a rich domain of manual intelligence that we encounter in many daily tasks. The present project attempts to analyse and implement the "web" of visuo-motor coordination skills to endow an anthropomorphic robot hand with the ability to manipulate paper (and paper-like objects) in a variety of situations of increasing complexity. This will include aspects such as modeling interaction with compliant objects, action based representation as well as bimanual coordination to enable object transformations such as tearing and folding.
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