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Main Authors: Liu, Lei, Zhang, Haonan, Xu, Huahang, Zhang, Zefan, Chang, Lulu, Lv, Lei, McIntosh, Andrew Ross, Sun, Kai, Bing, Zhenshan, Dong, Jiahong, Sun, Fuchun
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17863
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author Liu, Lei
Zhang, Haonan
Xu, Huahang
Zhang, Zefan
Chang, Lulu
Lv, Lei
McIntosh, Andrew Ross
Sun, Kai
Bing, Zhenshan
Dong, Jiahong
Sun, Fuchun
author_facet Liu, Lei
Zhang, Haonan
Xu, Huahang
Zhang, Zefan
Chang, Lulu
Lv, Lei
McIntosh, Andrew Ross
Sun, Kai
Bing, Zhenshan
Dong, Jiahong
Sun, Fuchun
contents Spinning flexible objects, exemplified by traditional Chinese handkerchief performances, demands periodic steady-state motions under nonlinear dynamics with frictional contacts and boundary constraints. To address these challenges, we first design an intuitive dexterous wrist based on a parallel anti-parallelogram tendon-driven structure, which achieves 90 degrees omnidirectional rotation with low inertia and decoupled roll-pitch sensing, and implement a high-low level hierarchical control scheme. We then develop a particle-spring model of the handkerchief for control-oriented abstraction and strategy evaluation. Hardware experiments validate this framework, achieving an unfolding ratio of approximately 99% and fingertip tracking error of RMSE = 2.88 mm in high-dynamic spinning. These results demonstrate that integrating control-oriented modeling with a task-tailored dexterous wrist enables robust rest-to-steady-state transitions and precise periodic manipulation of highly flexible objects. More visualizations: https://slowly1113.github.io/icra2026-handkerchief/
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spellingShingle Periodic Steady-State Control of a Handkerchief-Spinning Task Using a Parallel Anti-Parallelogram Tendon-driven Wrist
Liu, Lei
Zhang, Haonan
Xu, Huahang
Zhang, Zefan
Chang, Lulu
Lv, Lei
McIntosh, Andrew Ross
Sun, Kai
Bing, Zhenshan
Dong, Jiahong
Sun, Fuchun
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Spinning flexible objects, exemplified by traditional Chinese handkerchief performances, demands periodic steady-state motions under nonlinear dynamics with frictional contacts and boundary constraints. To address these challenges, we first design an intuitive dexterous wrist based on a parallel anti-parallelogram tendon-driven structure, which achieves 90 degrees omnidirectional rotation with low inertia and decoupled roll-pitch sensing, and implement a high-low level hierarchical control scheme. We then develop a particle-spring model of the handkerchief for control-oriented abstraction and strategy evaluation. Hardware experiments validate this framework, achieving an unfolding ratio of approximately 99% and fingertip tracking error of RMSE = 2.88 mm in high-dynamic spinning. These results demonstrate that integrating control-oriented modeling with a task-tailored dexterous wrist enables robust rest-to-steady-state transitions and precise periodic manipulation of highly flexible objects. More visualizations: https://slowly1113.github.io/icra2026-handkerchief/
title Periodic Steady-State Control of a Handkerchief-Spinning Task Using a Parallel Anti-Parallelogram Tendon-driven Wrist
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17863