Biomimetic, dexterous robotic hands have the potential to replicate much of the tasks that a human can do, and to achieve status as a general manipulation platform. Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) frameworks have achieved remarkable performance in quadrupedal locomotion and dexterous manipulation tasks. Combined with GPU-based highly parallelized simulations capable of simulating thousands of robots in parallel, RL-based controllers have become more scalable and approachable. However, in order to bring RL-trained policies to the real world, we require training frameworks that output policies that can work with physical actuators and sensors as well as a hardware platform that can be manufactured with accessible materials yet is robust enough to run interactive policies. This work introduces the biomimetic tendon-driven Faive Hand and its system architecture, which uses tendon-driven rolling contact joints to achieve a 3D printable, robust high-DoF hand design. We model each element of the hand and integrate it into a GPU simulation environment to train a policy with RL, and achieve zero-shot transfer of a dexterous in-hand sphere rotation skill to the physical robot hand.
Sampling-Based Model Predictive Control for Dexterous Manipulation on a Biomimetic Tendon-Driven Hand
Soft Robotics Lab, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich(苏黎世联邦理工学院机械与过程工程系软机器人实验室);School of Computer Science, University of Leeds(利兹大学计算机科学学院)
Design and Validation of an Under-actuated Robotic Finger with Synchronous Tendon Routing
ShanghaiTech University(上海科技大学);School of Information Science and Technology(信息科学与技术学院);ShanghaiTech Automation and Robotics (STAR) Center(上海科技大学自动化与机器人中心);King’s College London(伦敦大学国王学院)
Neural Operators for Design-Space Surrogate Modeling of Tendon-Actuated Continuum Robots
The Robotics Center and the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah(犹他大学机器人中心和Kahlert计算学院);The Departments of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Vanderbilt University(范德比大学计算机科学与电气与计算机工程系)
Development of a 15-Degree-of-Freedom Bionic Hand with Cable-Driven Transmission and Distributed Actuation
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(计算机科学与工程系,上海交通大学);Department of Engineering Mechanics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(工程力学系,上海交通大学);Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(自动化系,上海交通大学);Department of Automation, Key Laboratory of System Control and Information Processing of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Marine Intelligent Equipment and System of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Control and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(自动化系,教育部系统控制与信息处理重点实验室,教育部海洋智能设备与系统重点实验室,智能控制与管理工程研究中心,上海交通大学)
mimic-one: a Scalable Model Recipe for General Purpose Robot Dexterity
mimic robotics;ETH AI Center, ETH Zurich(ETH人工智能中心,ETH Zurich);Soft Robotics Lab, Dept. of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich(软机器人实验室,机械与过程工程系,ETH Zurich);Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich and University of Zurich(神经信息研究所,ETH Zurich和苏黎世大学)
Periodic Steady-State Control of a Handkerchief-Spinning Task Using a Parallel Anti-Parallelogram Tendon-driven Wrist
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University(清华大学计算机科学与技术系);School of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University(清华大学生物医学工程系);School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University(北航人工智能学院);Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University(清华大学核能与新能量技术研究院);Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University(清华大学深圳国际研究生院);School of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology(南京理工大学自动化学院);Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Tongji University(同济大学上海智能自主系统研究院);Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University(清华大学机械工程系);School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich(慕尼黑工业大学计算、信息与技术学院);State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology and the School of Science and Technology, Nanjing University (Suzhou Campus)(南京大学软件新技术国家重点实验室(苏州校区));Hepato-pancreato-biliary Center, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital(北京清华长庚医院肝胆外科中心);Key Laboratory of Digital Intelligence Hepatology (Ministry of Education), Beijing, China(教育部数字智能肝病重点实验室(北京));School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University(清华大学医学部临床医学学院)