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Manipulation of Pose Distributions

Department of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA mmoll{at}cs.cmu.edu me{at}cs.cmu.edu

Michael A. Erdmann

Department of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA mmoll{at}cs.cmu.edu me{at}cs.cmu.edu

For assembly tasks parts often have to be oriented before they can be put in an assembly. The results presented in this paper are a component of the automated design of parts orienting devices. The focus is on orienting parts with minimal sensing and manipulation. We present a new approach to parts orienting through the manipulation of pose distributions. Through dynamic simulation we can determine the pose distribution for an object being dropped from an arbitrary height on an arbitrary surface. By varying the drop height and the shape of the support surface we can find the initial conditions that will result in a pose distribution with minimal entropy. We are trying to uniquely orient a part with high probability just by varying the initial conditions. We will derive a condition on the pose and velocity of a simple planar object in contact with a sloped surface that will allow us to quickly determine the final resting configuration of the object. This condition can then be used to quickly compute the pose distribution. We also present simulation and experimental results that show how dynamic simulation can be used to find optimal shapes and drop heights for a given part.

Key Words: parts orienting • feeder design • pose statistics

The International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 21, No. 3, 277-292 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/027836402320556449


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