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IEEE Spectrum talked about how between the full manual and point-and-click grasping approaches shown in the above video, the researchers, from Georgia Tech’s Robot Autonomy and Interactive Learning (RAIL) lab, led by Professor Sonia Chernova, also implemented a middle ground “constrained positioning” method, which intelligently limits the amount of degrees of freedom that a user needs to position. Instead, the user needs to select only a grasp point, approach angle, and grasp depth.
Read more here: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/point-and-click-method-robot-grasping-control
