Description

In the context of the European project SoftEnable (http://softenable.eu/) we are collaborating with the Clinic hospital in Barcelona to design manipulation
strategies to assist doctors and nurses in the pre-operatory process, in dressing the personal protective equipment (PPE) and preparing the materials. One of the
manipulation primitives that is more repeated is that of opening sealed plastic bags that contain de-contaminated materials and handling them to the
professional that is already dressing a full PPE. To execute this task with a robot, we need to design a special gripper that can solve several of the challenges of
the task. Based on our previous experience in gripper design, we want to study both the design of fingers that can be added to existing grippers that we have in
the lab or full gripper designs that can be added to the Lab robotic arms.

The work is under the scope of the following projects:

• CHLOE-GRAPH: ClotH-Like ObjEcts Grasping, Representation, and Action Planning (web)
• SoftEnable: Towards Soft Fixture-Based Manipulation Primitives Enabling Safe Robotic Manipulation in Hazardous Healthcare and Food Handling Applications (web)