Pouring by Feel: An Analysis of Tactile and Proprioceptive Sensing for Accurate Pouring

Pedro Piacenza,Daewon Lee,Volkan Isler,Pedro Piacenza,Daewon Lee,Volkan Isler

As service robots begin to be deployed to assist humans, it is important for them to be able to perform a skill as ubiquitous as pouring. Specifically, we focus on the task of pouring an exact amount of water without any environmental instrumentation, that is, using only the robot's own sensors to perform this task in a general way robustly. In our approach we use a simple PID controller which use...