Object handovers: a review for robotics

V Ortenzi, A Cosgun, T Pardi, WP Chan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article surveys the literature on human–robot object handovers. A handover is a
collaborative joint action, where an agent, the giver, gives an object to another agent, the …

Affordance-aware handovers with human arm mobility constraints

P Ardón, ME Cabrera, E Pairet… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reasoning about object handover configurations allows an assistive agent to estimate the
appropriateness of handover for a receiver with different arm mobility capacities. While there …

Robot, Pass me the tool: Handle visibility facilitates task-oriented handovers

V Ortenzi, M Filipovica, D Abdlkarim… - 2022 17th ACM/IEEE …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A human handing over an object modulates their grasp and movements to accommodate
their partner's capa-bilities, which greatly increases the likelihood of a successful transfer …

Coming in handy: CeTI-Age — A comprehensive database of kinematic hand movements across the lifespan

E Muschter, J Schulz, M Tömösközi, L Herbst, L Küssel… - Scientific Data, 2023‏ - nature.com
Abstract The Tactile Internet aims to advance human-human and human-machine
interactions that also utilize hand movements in real, digitized, and remote environments …

ContactHandover: Contact-Guided Robot-to-Human Object Handover

Z Wang, Z Liu, N Ouporov… - 2024 IEEE/RSJ …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robot-to-human object handover is an important step in many human robot collaboration
tasks. A successful handover requires the robot to maintain a stable grasp on the object …

Enhancing Object Release Fluency in Robot to Human Handover Using Proprioceptive and Exteroceptive Information

M Penzotti, M Controzzi - International Journal of Social Robotics, 2025‏ - Springer
Object handover is the fundamental collaborative action requiring robots and humans to
physically interact. When the robotic partner plays the giver role, it assumes the …

Compliant Blind Handover Control for Human-Robot Collaboration

D Ferrari, A Pupa, C Secchi - 2024 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a Human-Robot Blind Handover architecture within the context of
Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC). The focus lies on a blind handover scenario where the …

Optimizing robot-to-human object handovers using vision-based affordance information

D Lehotsky, A Christensen… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic handovers of objects to humans require selecting appropriate grasp poses and
orientations to enable efficient subsequent use. We present two methods to compute …

Human manipulation strategy when changing object deformability and task properties

A Mazzeo, M Uliano, P Mucci, M Penzotti, L Angelini… - Scientific Reports, 2024‏ - nature.com
Robotic literature widely addresses deformable object manipulation, but few studies
analyzed human manipulation accounting for different levels of deformability and task …

Target recognition and grabbing positioning method based on convolutional neural network

F Mei, X Gao, S Deng, W Li - Mathematical Problems in …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
With the continuous reform of intelligent manufacturing, industrial production has gradually
developed from automation to intelligence. The fusion of vision technology and industrial …