Simulation of flexible cable insertion

SHORT SUMMARY 

This TestBed address one of the most stubborn unsolved bottlenecks in electronics manufacturing: dexterous handling and insertion of flexible cables and connectors during server-tray assembly. TestBed enables training of AI policies in simulation — with an open-source simulator as the official evaluation environment and alternative simulators permitted for training. The reference hardware stack comprises a 6-DoF collaborative robot arm, a parallel-jaw gripper, a wrist force-torque sensor, and three wrist-mounted RGB cameras streaming at 20 fps, all interfaced through standard ROS 2 (Kilted Kaiju) topics, services and actions. The TestBed provides high-fidelity SDFormat scene descriptions, URDF/SDF robot models, a baseline controller and hardware abstraction layer, a ROS 2 lifecycle node template that dynamically loads Python policies, an automated scoring engine, example policies, container images, and a reproducible development environment, supporting Industry 5.0 research on sim-to-real, human-centric dexterous robotic manipulation.

HOSTING INSTITUTION AND PI INFO

Name of Host Organization University of Belgrade – School of Electrical Engineering
Department or Lab ETF Robotics
Name of Building Palata Nauke
Physical Address Kralja Milana 11, 11000 Belgrade Serbia
Website Links https://www.etf.bg.ac.rs/,

https://robot.etf.bg.ac.rs/

Institutional contact name Prof. dr Kosta Jovanovic
Institutional contact email kostaj@etf.bg.ac.rs

APPLICATION CASES 

Application case: Short description:
Teaching tool for RL The key idea is to show the studnents of different levels how to train RL models for solving the task and data generation
Research test bed Using this TestBed researchers are able to test new strategies and develop new models of soft grapsing.

POTENTIAL STAKEHOLDERS

Non-academic stakeholders

Industrial Partners, Community

Academic stakeholders

Undergraduate students, PhD students, MSc students, Researchers

Privacy Preference Center