点群を用いたソフトハンド外骨格の把持制御
Point Cloud-based Grasping for Soft Hand Exoskeleton
深度知覚による点群から把持対象を予測し、幾何モデルに基づいてソフトハンド外骨格の次の制御状態を決定する視覚ベースの予測制御フレームワークを提案した。
著者: Chen Hu, Enrica Tricomi, Eojin Rho, Daekyum Kim, Lorenzo Masia, Shan Luo, Letizia Gionfrida
分類: cs.RO, cs.CV
原文アブストラクト
Grasping is a fundamental skill for interacting with and manipulating objects in the environment. However, this ability can be challenging for individuals with hand impairments. Soft hand exoskeletons designed to assist grasping can enhance or restore essential hand functions, yet controlling these soft exoskeletons to support users effectively remains difficult due to the complexity of understanding the environment. This study presents a vision-based predictive control framework that leverages contextual awareness from depth perception to predict the grasping target and determine the next control state for activation. Unlike data-driven approaches that require extensive labelled datasets and struggle with generalizability, our method is grounded in geometric modelling, enabling robust adaptation across diverse grasping scenarios. The Grasping Ability Score (GAS) was used to evaluate performance, with our system achieving a state-of-the-art GAS of 91% across 15 objects and healthy participants, demonstrating its effectiveness across different object types. The proposed approach maintained reconstruction success for unseen objects, underscoring its enhanced generalizability compared to learning-based models.
