From robotic juggling to robotic parts feeding

Srinivas Akella, Wesley H. Huang, Kevin M. Lynch, and Matthew T. Mason
Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems, 1996.
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Abstract

This paper describes our recent work on robotic manipulation using a robot with just one motor. The drift field provided by gravity can serve as an uncontrolled motor to allow a single-motor robot to throw objects to itself, a simple type of robotic juggling. Similarly, the drift field provided by a conveyor belt can serve as an uncontrolled motor to allow a single-motor robot to feed parts in an automated manufacturing context. This paper sketches the principles of very simple manipulators, and describes our recent theoretical and experimental results.

BibTeX entry

@Inproceedings{Akella96c,
  author = 	 "Srinivas Akella and Wesley H. Huang and Kevin M. Lynch and
		 Matthew T. Mason",
  title = 	 {From robotic juggling to robotic parts feeding},
  booktitle = 	 {Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems},
  year =	 1996
}