The advent of robots in our daily life depends on
their ability to navigate and intervene efficiently in our
environment. Whether considering household or industrial
applications, one of the most important functions they should
have is the ability to grasp and manipulate a large amount of
objects, tools and machines that can vary in form, size and
weight, but share the fact that they were designed for humans
and have functional elements, e.g. buttons or handles, fitted to
the human hand. The development of biologically inspired
anthropomorphic robotic hands thus appears as a natural
research path to allow robots replicating these activities. Such
devices however prove to be complex to design and control, and
they remain in practice limited to date to laboratory
experiments. They hardly reach a sufficient simplicity,
robustness and cost allowing for their widespread adoption in
our houses or factories and industrial robots still make use of
simple bi-digital grippers or dedicated tools which in turn
suffer a poor versatility. To overcome this situation, novel
dexterous grippers are required, that are sufficiently versatile
to adapt to various situations and objects yet simple enough
and cost effective. This compromise is however difficult to
achieve and the specification of such grippers is still an open
issue. This paper introduces a human-centered manual
interaction patterns analysis methodology that intends to
contribute to fill this gap. After a presentation of our approach,
we apply it in different contexts and show how it can be used to
orient a robotic gripper design that will fit given use-case
requirements.

Augmented Environment Representations with Complete Object Models

**Session Chairs: Ken Caluwaerts, Giorgio Nicola**

Session IX: Motion Planning and Navigation in Human-Centered Environments

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