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In vision-based robot manipulation, a single camera view can only capture one side of objects of interest, with additional occlusions in cluttered scenes further restricting visibility. As a result, the observed geometry is incomplete, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Abhishek Kashyap , Yuxuan Yang , Henrik Andreasson , Todor Stoyanov

Grasping objects successfully from a single-view camera is crucial in many robot manipulation tasks. An approach to solve this problem is to leverage simulation to create large datasets of pairs of objects and grasp poses, and then learn a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Joao Carvalho , An T. Le , Philipp Jahr , Qiao Sun , Julen Urain , Dorothea Koert , Jan Peters

Object grasping in cluttered scenes is a widely investigated field of robot manipulation. Most of the current works focus on estimating grasp pose from point clouds based on an efficient single-shot grasp detection network. However, due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Wei Wei , Yongkang Luo , Fuyu Li , Guangyun Xu , Jun Zhong , Wanyi Li , Peng Wang

Grasp detection in clutter requires the robot to reason about the 3D scene from incomplete and noisy perception. In this work, we draw insight that 3D reconstruction and grasp learning are two intimately connected tasks, both of which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Zhenyu Jiang , Yifeng Zhu , Maxwell Svetlik , Kuan Fang , Yuke Zhu

Shape completion networks have been used recently in real-world robotic experiments to complete the missing/hidden information in environments where objects are only observed in one or few instances where self-occlusions are bound to occur.…

Fast and robust object grasping in clutter is a crucial component of robotics. Most current works resort to the whole observed point cloud for 6-Dof grasp generation, ignoring the guidance information excavated from global semantics, thus…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Siang Chen , Wei Tang , Pengwei Xie , Wenming Yang , Guijin Wang

In this paper, we propose a object detection method expressed as rotated bounding box to solve grasping challenge in the scenes where rigid objects and soft objects are mixed together. Compared with traditional detection methods, this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Xiaoman Wang , Xin Jiang , Jie Zhao , Shengfan Wang , Yunhui Liu

In this paper, we study the problem of task-oriented grasp synthesis from partial point cloud data using an eye-in-hand camera configuration. In task-oriented grasp synthesis, a grasp has to be selected so that the object is not lost during…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Aditya Patankar , Khiem Phi , Dasharadhan Mahalingam , Nilanjan Chakraborty , IV Ramakrishnan

Controlling hand exoskeletons for assisting impaired patients in grasping tasks is challenging because it is difficult to infer user intent. We hypothesize that majority of daily grasping tasks fall into a small set of categories or modes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Jackson M. Steinkamp , Laura J. Brattain , Conor J. Walsh , Robert D. Howe

This paper addresses the challenge of robotic grasping of general objects. Similar to prior research, the task reads a single-view 3D observation (i.e., point clouds) captured by a depth camera as input. Crucially, the success of object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Kangqi Ma , Hao Dong , Yadong Mu

We consider the problem of detecting robotic grasps in an RGB-D view of a scene containing objects. In this work, we apply a deep learning approach to solve this problem, which avoids time-consuming hand-design of features. This presents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-22 Ian Lenz , Honglak Lee , Ashutosh Saxena

Deep learning has enabled remarkable improvements in grasp synthesis for previously unseen objects from partial object views. However, existing approaches lack the ability to explicitly reason about the full 3D geometry of the object when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Mark Van der Merwe , Qingkai Lu , Balakumar Sundaralingam , Martin Matak , Tucker Hermans

To achieve a successful grasp, gripper attributes such as its geometry and kinematics play a role as important as the object geometry. The majority of previous work has focused on developing grasp methods that generalize over novel object…

In this paper, we investigate the problem of grasping novel objects in unstructured environments. To address this problem, consideration of the object geometry, reachability and force closure analysis are required. We propose a framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Amirhossein Jabalameli , Nabil Ettehadi , Aman Behal

Reliable robotic grasping in unstructured environments is a crucial but challenging task. The main problem is to generate the optimal grasp of novel objects from partial noisy observations. This paper presents an end-to-end grasp detection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Binglei Zhao , Hanbo Zhang , Xuguang Lan , Haoyu Wang , Zhiqiang Tian , Nanning Zheng

Precision grasps with multi-fingered hands are important for precise placement and in-hand manipulation tasks. Searching precision grasps on the object represented by point cloud, is challenging due to the complex object shape,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Yongxiang Fan , Xinghao Zhu , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Grasping unseen objects in unconstrained, cluttered environments is an essential skill for autonomous robotic manipulation. Despite recent progress in full 6-DoF grasp learning, existing approaches often consist of complex sequential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Martin Sundermeyer , Arsalan Mousavian , Rudolph Triebel , Dieter Fox

Grasping algorithms have evolved from planar depth grasping to utilizing point cloud information, allowing for application in a wider range of scenarios. However, data-driven grasps based on models trained on basic open-source datasets may…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Xiao Hu , Xiangsheng Chen

The 6-Degree of Freedom (DoF) grasp method based on point clouds has shown significant potential in enabling robots to grasp target objects. However, most existing methods are based on the point clouds (2.5D points) generated from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yaofeng Cheng , Fusheng Zha , Wei Guo , Pengfei Wang , Chao Zeng , Lining Sun , Chenguang Yang

We introduce a new trajectory optimization method for robotic grasping based on a point-cloud representation of robots and task spaces. In our method, robots are represented by 3D points on their link surfaces. The task space of a robot is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Yu Xiang , Sai Haneesh Allu , Rohith Peddi , Tyler Summers , Vibhav Gogate