Dynamic Catching Using High-speed Hand System

Research

Active catching of a falling ball

Active catching of a falling cylinder

Movies

• Demo [9.5Mbytes]
• Catching of a rubber ball, x1.0 [2.8Mbytes], x0.02 [1.2Mbytes], x0.02 [1.3Mbytes], x0.02 [1.2Mbytes]
• Catching of a styrofoam cylinder, x1.0 [2.0Mbytes], x0.02 [1.1Mbytes], x0.02 [1.3Mbytes], x0.02 [1.5Mbytes]

Reference

1. Akio Namiki, Yoshiro Imai, Masatoshi Ishikawa, and Makoto Kaneko : Development of a High-speed Multifingered Hand System and Its Application to Catching, 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (Las Vegas, 2003.10.30) pp.2666-2671 [ PDF format ]
2. Akio Namiki, Yoshiro Imai, Masatoshi Ishikawa, Makoto Kaneko, Hiroshi Kameda, and Junji Koyama : Dynamic Catching Using a Ultra-High-Speed Multifingered Hand System, 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Taipei, Taiwan, 2003.9.17) Video Proceedings, Abstracts & References, pp.28-29