Flexible Rope Manipulation Using Elastic Deformation Modeling by Dual Manipulator System with Vision Sensor

In this paper we propose a flexible object manipulation method by a dual manipulator system. A flexible object such a rope and paper is easily deformed and has hysteresis. Various approaches have been made on the research for the flexible object manipulation. However in the former research works, the manipulator system works only simple task. For more complex works with flexible object, the robot has to hand over the flexible object. So, we propose a flexible object recognition method which can hand over a flexible object using vision information and flexible object model. The dual manipulator system tied a cylinder object with flexible rope by repeating handing over actions in the experiment.