Pushing strategies to slide a cuboidal 3D block along a vertical wall and a horizontal floor without any rotation of the block are studied. Conditions for a pushing strategy is carefully formulated, and properties of the strategy and conditions on the block sizes for existence of a strategy are derived. To cope with uncertainty of coefficients of friction between the block surface and the wall and floor surfaces and mass and location of center of mass of the block, some robust pushing strategies are proposed. >
['Hirokazu Mayeda', 'Y. Wakatsuki']
Strategies for pushing a 3D block along a wall