Do You Need a Hand?
a Bimanual Robotic Dressing Assistance Scheme
Jihong Zhu1,3, Michael Gienger2, Giovanni Franzese3, and Jens Kober3
Link to the preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02749
The paper is now published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10436357
The paper was reported by: BBC, The independent, York Press, Standard, TechXplore (and some more)
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Key contribution
Inspired by caregiving experts, we proposed a bimanual interactive robotic dressing assistance scheme, which is unprecedented in previous research.
This work represents a paradigm shift of thinking of the dressing assistance task from one-robot-to-one-arm to two-robot-to-one-arm.
Human not compliant
This video shows failure cases in bimanual assistive dressing
Ablation study and conclusion
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This work was supported by Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH as part of the project: Learning Physical Human-Robot Cooperation Tasks.
1 School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, the UK
2 Honda Research Institute EU
3 Cognitive Robotics, 3mE, TU Delft, the Netherlands
For questions regarding this work, please contact: jihong.zhu@york.ac.uk
