Joseph A. Falco

Publications

Performance Metrics and Test Methods for Robotic Hands (Draft)

October 31, 2018

Author(s):

Joseph A. Falco, Karl Van Wyk, Elena R. Messina

Increasing the flexibility and general-purpose applicability of robots is a longstanding goal. Several avenues of research are addressing these goals, ranging...

Proposed Standard Terminology for Robotic Hands and Associated Performance Metrics (Draft)

October 31, 2018

Author(s):

Joseph A. Falco, Karl Van Wyk, Elena R. Messina

Increasing the flexibility and general-purpose applicability of robots is a longstanding goal. Several avenues of research addressing these goals include hand...

Guest Editorial Open Discussion of Robot Grasping Benchmarks, Protocols and Metrics

October 15, 2018

Author(s):

Jeffrey Mahler, Rob Platt, Alberto Rodriguez, Matei Ciocarlie, Aaron Dollar, Renaud Detry, Maximo Roa, Holly A. Yanco, Adam Norton, Joseph A. Falco, Karl Van Wyk, Elena R. Messina, Jurgen Leitner, Oliver Brock, Odhner Lael, Andrey Kurenkov, Matthew Matl, Ken Goldberg

Automated grasping has a long history of research that is increasing due to interest from industry. One Grand Challenge for robotics is Universal Picking: the...

Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition: Task Pool

July 15, 2018

Author(s):

Yu Sun, Joseph A. Falco, Nadia Cheng, Hyouk Ryeol Choi, Erik Engeberg, Nancy Pollard, Maximo Roa, Zeyang Xia

A Robot Grasping and Manipulation Competition was held during IROS 2016. The competition provided a common set of robot tasks for researchers focused on the...

Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition: Competitor Feedback and Lessons Learned

July 15, 2018

Author(s):

Joseph A. Falco, Yu Sun, Maximo Roa

The First Robot Grasping and Manipulation Competition, held during IROS 2016, allowed researchers focused on the application of robot systems to compare the...