Cable Manipulation for Contact Shaping Tasks using Elastic Rods

Rabenstein G, Völz A, Graichen K (2025)


Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2025

Event location: Portsmouth

Abstract

Humans complete contact tasks with a cable by actively seeking contact with the obstacle. Inspired by this behavior, the manipulation planning approach in this paper solves a contact shaping task with cylindrical obstacles. This task is solved by sequentially regrasping and moving the cable at two grasp points. Hereby, a cable segment between two points is first moved to a suitable preposition and then wrapped around the obstacle. For the cable prepositioning, elastic rods are used to model a cable segments between two points. By describing a cable equilibrium configuration by a six-dimensional vector, this model is used in random sampling based path planning. After prepositioning, the cable is wrapped around the obstacle by establishing and using a contact point on the obstacle surface. The proposed method is finally evaluated in the SOFA simulator.

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APA:

Rabenstein, G., Völz, A., & Graichen, K. (2025). Cable Manipulation for Contact Shaping Tasks using Elastic Rods. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ICARM). Portsmouth.

MLA:

Rabenstein, Georg, Andreas Völz, and Knut Graichen. "Cable Manipulation for Contact Shaping Tasks using Elastic Rods." Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ICARM), Portsmouth 2025.

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