Task-Oriented Contact Optimization for Pushing Manipulation with Mobile Robots

Filippo Bertoncelli,Mario Selvaggio,Fabio Ruggiero,Lorenzo Sabattini,Filippo Bertoncelli,Mario Selvaggio,Fabio Ruggiero,Lorenzo Sabattini

This work addresses the problem of transporting an object along a desired planar trajectory by pushing with mobile robots. More specifically, we concentrate on establishing optimal contacts between the object and the robots to execute the given task with minimum effort. We present a task-oriented contact placement optimization strategy for object pushing that allows calculating optimal contact poi...