The complexities of grasping in the wild
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Nakamura, Yuzuko C.; Troniak, Daniel M.; Mason, Matthew T.; Pollard, Nancy S.; Rodriguez Garcia, Alberto
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The recent ubiquity of high-framerate (120 fps and higher) handheld cameras creates the opportunity to study human grasping at a greater level of detail than normal speed cameras allow. We first collected 91 slow-motion interactions with objects in a convenience store setting. We then annotated the actions through the lenses of various existing manipulation taxonomies. We found manipulation, particularly the process of forming a grasp, is complicated and proceeds quickly. Our dataset shows that there are many ways that people deal with clutter in order to form a strong grasp of an object. It also reveals several errors and how people recover from them. Though annotating motions in detail is time-consuming, the annotation systems we used nevertheless leave out important aspects of understanding manipulation actions, such as how the environment is functioning as a 'finger' of sorts, how different parts of the hand can be involved in different grasping tasks, and high-level intent.
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2018-01Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical EngineeringJournal
2017 IEEE-RAS 17th International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids)
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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Nakamura, Yuzuko C., Daniel M. Troniak, Alberto Rodriguez, Matthew T. Mason, and Nancy S. Pollard. “The Complexities of Grasping in the Wild.” 2017 IEEE-RAS 17th International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids), 15-17 November, 2017, Birmingham, UK, IEEE, 2017.
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978-1-5386-4678-6