Tossing manipulation by 1 degree-of-freedom manipulator

Abstract

There are some researches which perform complex manipulation tasks with low degree-of-freedom manipulator by sliding, rolling, releasing etc. They are called dynamic manipulation. In this paper, tossing manipulation is introduced as a form of dynamic manipulation. A 1-DOF manipulator swings its arm to roll/slide an object on it, and then tosses it to locate to goal position. This paper shows an analysis and a simulation of kinematic model of tossing manipulation. To locate an object to desired position, inverse problem is solved with various optimizations. Finally some experiments and their consideration are discussed.