A 2D Geometry Based Grasping Pose Generation Algorithm for a Two-Finger Robot Hand

Robot grasping is of paramount importance in industrial and service robotics. In recent years, various data-driven algorithms have been proposed to solve the problem of grasp detection and a part of them are based on reinforcement learning (RL) approaches. In a variety of proposed algorithms, random key points are being employed which will make the learning process inefficient and time-consuming. In this paper, a geometry-based algorithm is presented which can find grasp poses based on the geometry of the unknown object and propose the ones which may lead to successful grasping. For the grasp contacts computation part, the presented algorithm produces a finite number of key points based on the 2D shape of the object from a specific point of view. Afterward, it will narrow down the candidate points and output a finite number of successful grasp poses based on three grasp quality metrics for various unknown objects. Three approaches are proposed in order to achieve center points which can describe different parts of a 2D shape. Then, the obtained points are used as the center of circles which are tangent to the 2D shape contour. Also, a new grasp quality metric is proposed. The time of the grasp and the amount of object disorientation after grasping are considered as a metric to evaluate the successfulness of the grasp. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm for unknown object grasping can find a finite number of successful grasp poses for different seen or unseen objects without using any random point,