Bin Picking (part 1)

MIT 6.881: Robotic Manipulation

Fall 2020, Lecture 9

Follow live at https://slides.com/russtedrake/fall20-lec09/live

(or later at https://slides.com/russtedrake/fall20-lec09)

"Clutter clearing" (an early project at TRI)

to the "whiteboard"...

Breakouts

Questions:

  • Body A: Box, Body B: Point
    • Can you explain the location of the all of the points?
    • Do the normals change smoothly?
  • Body A: Box, Body B: Box
    • Are the forces symmetric?
  • Try more combinations!

"Hydroelastic" contact simulation (in Drake)