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Manipulation
positions, control is transferred from the extension mode into the
retraction mode. Yet this agent that does this not need to know
why the hand stopped. The hand might have recently acquired or
deposited a can, reached the edge of the workspace, or simply
gotten stuck. Similarly, it does not even need to know which
groping behaviors were active at the time. By using sensor
derived events as signals we retain flexibility in the actual
construction of the system without sacrificing our capability to
provide global direction.
3.1 Hardware
Before examining the controller it is first necessary to
understand the capabilities an ...