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Yanbo Long

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IROS Conference 2023 Conference Paper

A Unified Trajectory Generation Algorithm for Dynamic Dexterous Manipulation

Cheng Zhou
Wentao Gao
Weifeng Lu
Yanbo Long
Sicheng Yang
Longfei Zhao
Bidan Huang
Yu Zheng 0001

This paper proposes a novel efficient multi-phase trajectory generation algorithm for dynamic dexterous manipulation tasks, such as throwing, catching, dynamic regrasping, and dynamic handover, which can be decomposed into multiple manipulation primitives, including sticking, rolling, approaching, separating, colliding, and grasping. Each manipulation primitive is formulate as a free-terminal optimal control problem (OCP), aimed at computing the optimal pose (position and orientation) trajectories of the object and the robot subject to the pose and force linkage constraints between them and the expected force maintenance at contact. A single-arm regrasping task and a dual-arm dynamic handover task are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

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ICRA Conference 2023 Conference Paper

Differential Dynamic Programming based Hybrid Manipulation Strategy for Dynamic Grasping

Cheng Zhou
Yanbo Long
Lei Shi
Longfei Zhao
Yu Zheng 0001

To fully explore the potential of robots for dexterous manipulation, this paper presents a whole dynamic grasping process to achieve fluent grasping of a target object by the robot end-effector. The process starts from the phase of approaching the object over the phases of colliding with the object and letting it roll about the colliding point to the final phase of catching it by the palm or grasping it by the fingers of the end-effector. We derive a unified model for this hybrid dynamic manipulation process embodied as approaching-colliding-rolling-catching/grasping from the spatial vector based articulated body dynamics. Then, the whole process is formulated as a free-terminal constrained multi-phase optimal control problem (OCP). We extend the traditional differential dynamic programming (DDP) to solving this free-terminal OCP, where the backward pass of DDP involves constrained quadratic programming (QP) problems and we solve them by the primal-dual Augmented Lagrangian (PDAL) method. Simulations and real experiments are conducted to show the effectiveness of the proposed method for robotic dynamic grasping.

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IROS Conference 2022 Conference Paper

Optimal Nonprehensile Interception Strategy for Objects in Flight

Cheng Zhou
Yanbo Long
Ying Cao
Longfei Zhao
Bidan Huang
Yu Zheng 0001

Intercepting an object in flight through nonpre-hensile manipulation is a challenging problem, which is aimed at catching and stopping a flying object using little contacts without completely restraining its relative motion to the robot. This paper presents a two-stage optimal trajectory generation method to tackle this problem. At the pre-catching stage, optimal position and attitude trajectories of the robot's end-effector to approach the object are generated by a variational method. At the post-catching stage, the end-effector's trajectories are generated to optimally eliminate the translational and rotational motion of the object and a convex-MPC algorithm combined with admittance control is used to realize the trajectory tracking. A series of simulations and experiments have been conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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