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Make a hand experiment reproducible

A useful result describes what another person must repeat, including the failures.

Decide the question before the trial

Choose one manipulation task, starting conditions and success rule. Report all attempts and explain excluded trials. Keep objects, controller, intervention policy and timing boundaries consistent when comparing systems.

Describe the complete system

Record the hand revision, external actuation, sensors, firmware, code commit, dependencies and configuration. For a build, include editable design files and the bill of materials where you have permission. Hardware, software and data may have separate licenses.

Use the right reference

NIST manipulation research and YCB protocols offer starting points for task design. RobotPerf measures robotics computing performance; its latency results do not rank hand dexterity. A draft standards work item is not an adopted standard.

Publish enough to challenge the claim

Use the experiment template to record the procedure, successes, failures, resets, human assistance, logs and limitations. Link permitted artifacts to their original repository. A video can illustrate the result; it does not replace the procedure or trial record.

NIST grasping and manipulation program · YCB benchmarking project · OSHWA open hardware definition