From stanford

Sensor Updates

• Board with 8 cells in process, should be ready fairly soon.
• 4-cells per "finger"
• possibly used during a stand-alone demo
• Could drop down to about 25^2mm area

Control Software

• Basic (no force-feedback) grasps working
• Next step is to verify grasp quality based on sensor feedback
• Then move on to continuous updates to perform the grasp refinement

From Square One

• Have gone to a smaller gripper, more like needle-nose pliers
• Keep on with the 1"x2" sensor pad
• Probably move to a more integrated design with the "needle-nose" gripper later.
• Probably not ready to integrate the force-feedback based grasp-refinement for a few months
• Stereo-vision
  • Interested in talking with Adam Leeper still

• New motion control sofware written
  • Grasping via point-and-click method mostly implemented (?) like to get more info about this soon

• Next gen frame walker will by hydraulic

Deliverables

• 1"x2" sensor pad sent by June 15th
• Status updates sent every other month, starting June 1st (simple emails are fine)

-- BarrettHeyneman - 18 May 2010