To grasp or not to grasp: an end-to-end deep-learning approach for predicting grasping failures in soft hands
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Author(s) • • • • • •
Arapi, Visar
Zhang, Yujie
Averta, Giuseppe
Catalano, Manuel G.
Rus, Daniela L
Santina, Cosimo Della
Bianchi, Matteo
Date Issued
May 2020
Journal
2020 3rd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, RoboSoft 2020
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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2020. "To grasp or not to grasp: an end-to-end deep-learning approach for predicting grasping failures in soft hands." 2020 3rd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, RoboSoft 2020.
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Abstract
© 2020 IEEE. This paper tackles the challenge of predicting grasp failures in soft hands before they happen, by combining deep learning with a sensing strategy based on distributed Inertial Measurement Units. We propose two neural architectures, which we implemented and tested with an articulated soft hand-the Pisa/IIT SoftHand-and a continuously deformable soft hand-the RBO Hand. The first architecture (Classifier) implements a-posteriori detection of the failure event, serving as a test-bench to assess the possibility of extracting failure information from the discussed input signals. This network reaches up to 100% of accuracy within our experimental validation. Motivated by these results, we introduce a second architecture (Predictor), which is the main contribution of the paper. This network works on-line and takes as input a multidimensional continuum stream of raw signals coming from the Inertial Measurement Units. The network is trained to predict the occurrence in the near future of a failure event. The Predictor detects 100% of failures with both hands, with the detection happening on average 1.96 seconds before the actual failing occurs-leaving plenty of time to an hypothetical controller to react.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOSOFT48309.2020.9116041