Origami Folding by a Robotic Hand

Kenta Tanaka; Yusuke Kamotani; Yasuyoshi Yokokohji

doi:10.20965/jrm.2008.p0550

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JRM Vol.20 No.4 pp. 550-558

doi: 10.20965/jrm.2008.p0550

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Origami Folding by a Robotic Hand

Kenta Tanaka, Yusuke Kamotani, and Yasuyoshi Yokokohji

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

Received:

February 4, 2008

Accepted:

March 18, 2008

Published:

August 20, 2008

Keywords:

robotic hand, object manipulation, dexterity, deformable object

Abstract

Dexterous manipulation by a robotic hand is a difficult problem involving (1) how to design a robot that gives the capability to achieve the task and (2) how to control the designed robot to actually conduct the task. In this paper, we take a task-oriented approach called “task capture” to construct a dexterous robot hand system. Before designing the robot, we analyze how a human being conducts the task, focusing on how the target object is manipulated rather than trying to imitate human finger movement. Based on the captured task, we design a robot that manipulates an object in the same way as a human being may do, with a mechanism as simple as possible, rather than concerning human appearance. As a target task, we choose origami paper folding. We first analyze the difficulty of origami manipulation and design a robotic mechanism that folds an origami form, the Tadpole, based on the proposed approach. The proof of how well the “task capture” approach works is demonstrated by a simple robot we developed, which folds a Tadpole consecutively.

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K. Tanaka, Y. Kamotani, and Y. Yokokohji, “Origami Folding by a Robotic Hand,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.20 No.4, pp. 550-558, 2008.

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