NDLI: The Affordance Template ROS package for robot task programming

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Hart, S. Dinh, P. Hambuchen, K.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA (Hambuchen, K.) \|\| TRACLabs Inc., Houston, TX, USA (Hart, S.) \|\| Oceaneering Space Syst., Houston, TX, USA (Dinh, P.)
Abstract	This paper introduces the Affordance Template ROS package for quickly programming, adjusting, and executing robot applications in the ROS RViz environment. This package extends the capabilities of RViz interactive markers [1] by allowing an operator to specify multiple end-effector waypoint locations and grasp poses in object-centric coordinate frames and to adjust these waypoints in order to meet the run-time demands of the task (specifically, object scale and location). The Affordance Template package stores task specifications in a robot-agnostic JSON description format such that it is trivial to apply a template to a new robot. As such, the Affordance Template package provides a robot-generic ROS tool appropriate for building semi-autonomous, manipulation-based applications. Affordance Templates were developed by the NASA-JSC DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) team and have since successfully been deployed on multiple platforms including the NASA Valkyrie and Robonaut 2 humanoids, the University of Texas Dreamer robot and the Willow Garage PR2. In this paper, the specification and implementation of the affordance template package is introduced and demonstrated through examples for wheel (valve) turning, pick-and-place, and drill grasping, evincing its utility and flexibility for a wide variety of robot applications.
Starting Page	6227
Ending Page	6234
File Size	3060234
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781479969234
DOI	10.1109/ICRA.2015.7140073
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-05-26
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Robot kinematics Mobile robots Robot sensing systems Wheels Trajectory Shape
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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