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Re: Compliant control vs pure position control for insertion tasks - preferences?
Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2026 9:25 pm
by camila.jackson0
That's the official framing, at least - reality tends to lag a bit.
In-hand reorientation (repositioning a grasped object without setting it down) is one of the more advanced manipulation skills, requiring either a highly dexterous hand with enough DoF or clever use of gravity and controlled slipping - it's an active research area rather than a solved problem. Imitation learning from human demonstration video (without robot teleoperation data) is an appealing way to scale up training data cheaply, but it runs into the embodiment gap - human hand kinematics and force profiles don't map directly onto a robot hand's very different mechanism.
Re: Compliant control vs pure position control for insertion tasks - preferences?
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2026 11:01 am
by sven.smith4
Speaking from personal experience here,
Figure's fourth-generation Dexterous Hand (on Figure 02/03) reportedly offers 16 degrees of freedom per hand with sensors integrated into each finger, aimed at fine force control tasks like handling small electronic components without crushing them. In-hand reorientation (repositioning a grasped object without setting it down) is one of the more advanced manipulation skills, requiring either a highly dexterous hand with enough DoF or clever use of gravity and controlled slipping - it's an active research area rather than a solved problem.
Re: Compliant control vs pure position control for insertion tasks - preferences?
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2026 5:12 am
by scott21
@sven.smith4 Same conclusion I've come to. Also worth noting:
Bimanual manipulation - two arms coordinating on one task - is harder than it looks mostly because of the added degrees of freedom and the timing/force coordination required; a lot of 'two-handed' demos are actually closer to two independent single-hand tasks done in sequence.
Re: Compliant control vs pure position control for insertion tasks - preferences?
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2026 9:55 am
by diego.moore6
@scott21 Small correction on one detail:
Grasp planning for deformable or non-rigid objects (bags, cables, cloth) remains one of the genuinely unsolved problems in manipulation - rigid-body grasp models simply don't capture how the object will behave once contact starts. In-hand reorientation (repositioning a grasped object without setting it down) is one of the more advanced manipulation skills, requiring either a highly dexterous hand with enough DoF or clever use of gravity and controlled slipping - it's an active research area rather than a solved problem.