Fast adaptation for effect-aware pushing

In order to produce robots that are more capable of skilled manipulation tasks, they must learn meaningful knowledge of how objects behave to external stimulus. With this knowledge a robot can predict the outcome of an action, control the object to serve a particular purpose, and together with reasoning, create or modify robot plans. In this paper we 1) build a mathematical compact model for planar sliding motion of an object, 2) show how a robot acquires the parameters of such a model; then how this is used to 3) predict pushing actions; and 4) to move an object from any¹ position and orientation to another.