@Article{sanchez:ijhr:2020, author = {S{\'a}nchez, Daniel and Wan, Weiwei and Kanehiro, Fumio and Harada, Kensuke}, title = {Re-posing Objects Considering Bipedal Stability Constraints: An Approach for Stability Preservation During Humanoid Manipulation}, journal = {International Journal of Humanoid Robotics}, year = {2020}, volume = {17}, number = {02}, pages = {2050005}, month = {April}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1142/S021984362050005X}, url = {https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S021984362050005X?journalCode=ijhr}, keywords = {Re-grasp planning, robot balance, manipulation constraints}, abstract = {This paper presents a balance-centered planner for object re-posing. It uses Center-of-Mass (CoM) constraints to preserve robot stability and provides stable, IK-feasible, and collision-free upper-body poses, allowing the robot to complete dexterous object manipulation tasks with different objects. The technical contributions of the planner are two-fold. First, it evaluates the robot stability margin for each robot pose during manipulation planning to find a stable manipulation motion. Second, it provides an RRT-inspired task-related stability estimation used to compare different bipedal stances. Simulations and real-world experiments are performed with the HRP-5P humanoid robot, the 5th generation of the HRP robot family, to validate the planner and compare different robot stances and approaches for object re-posing. The experiment results suggest that the proposed planner provides robust behavior for the humanoid robot while performing re-posing tasks.}, publisher = {World Scientific Publ Co PTE Ltd}, address = {5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224, Singapore} }