Construction of Knotting Skills by Winding Rope Around Fingers With Hooks

Abstract

This study focuses on rope knotting by a dual-armed robot. In most previous studies, ropes were manipulated by grasping them with fingers, and the trajectory tended to be large especially when making a loop and threading the end of the rope through it, in order to allow room for the fingers to pass. In this study, we propose a new method to make a knot by winding a rope around an end-effector. This method allows for the creation of knots with smaller trajectories, making it possible to effectively create knots even with short ropes. First, we designed three basic skills and constructed a method for generating a knot-making procedure using them. As an experiment, we performed four types of knot tying using the proposed method and verified its effectiveness.

Publication
2025 JSME Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ROBOMECH2025)