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Fast grasping is critical for mobile robots in logistics, manufacturing, and service applications. Existing methods face fundamental challenges in impact stabilization under high-speed motion, real-time whole-body coordination, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Heng Tao , Yiming Zhong , Zemin Yang , Yuexin Ma

We study a human-robot collaborative transportation task in presence of obstacles. The task for each agent is to carry a rigid object to a common target position, while safely avoiding obstacles and satisfying the compliance and actuation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Tony Zheng , Monimoy Bujarbaruah , Yvonne R. Stürz , Francesco Borrelli

This letter investigates the motion control problem of two mobile robots under allowable collisions. Here, the allowable collisions mean that the collisions do not damage the mobile robots. The occurrence of the collisions is discussed and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Li Tan , Wei Ren , Xi-Ming Sun , Junlin Xiong

Enabling robots to walk and run on yielding terrain is increasingly vital to endeavors ranging from disaster response to extraterrestrial exploration. While dynamic legged locomotion on rigid ground is challenging enough, yielding terrain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Daniel J. Lynch , Kevin M. Lynch , Paul B. Umbanhowar

Soft robot manipulators have the potential for deployment in delicate environments to perform complex manipulation tasks. However, existing obstacle detection and avoidance methods do not consider limits on the forces that manipulators may…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Akua K. Dickson , Juan C. Pacheco Garcia , Andrew P. Sabelhaus

The ability to successfully grasp objects is crucial in robotics, as it enables several interactive downstream applications. To this end, most approaches either compute the full 6D pose for the object of interest or learn to predict a set…

In this paper, we present an approach for learning collision-free robot trajectories in the presence of moving obstacles. As a first step, we train a backup policy to generate evasive movements from arbitrary initial robot states using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Jonas Kiemel , Ludovic Righetti , Torsten Kröger , Tamim Asfour

Service robots are expected to autonomously and efficiently work in human-centric environments. For this type of robots, object perception and manipulation are challenging tasks due to need for accurate and real-time response. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-05 S. Hamidreza Kasaei , Nima Shafii , Luis Seabra Lopes , Ana Maria Tome

Grasping is an essential capability for most robots in practical applications. Soft robotic grippers are considered as a critical part of robotic grasping and have attracted considerable attention in terms of the advantages of the high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Huixu Dong , Chao-Yu Chen , Chen Qiu , Chen-Hua Yeow , Haoyong Yu

Humans grasp unfamiliar objects by combining an initial visual estimate with tactile and proprioceptive feedback during interaction. We present ShapeGrasp, a robotic implementation of this approach. The proposed method is an iterative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Lukas Rustler , Matej Hoffmann

The use of anthropomorphic robotic hands for assisting individuals in situations where human hands may be unavailable or unsuitable has gained significant importance. In this paper, we propose a novel task called human-assisting dexterous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Tianhao Wu , Mingdong Wu , Jiyao Zhang , Yunchong Gan , Hao Dong

In the robotic crop harvesting environment, foreign objects intrusion in the gripper workspace is frequently occurring and unignorable, however, rarely addressed. This paper presents a novel intelligent robotic grasping method capable of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Hongyu Zhou , Xing Wang , Hanwen Kang , Chao Chen

Artificial intelligence is essential to succeed in challenging activities that involve dynamic environments, such as object manipulation tasks in indoor scenes. Most of the state-of-the-art literature explores robotic grasping methods by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Paola Ardón , Èric Pairet , Ron Petrick , Subramanian Ramamoorthy , Katrin Lohan

This paper addresses the multi-faceted problem of robot grasping, where multiple criteria may conflict and differ in importance. We introduce a probabilistic framework, Grasp Ranking and Criteria Evaluation (GRaCE), which employs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Tasbolat Taunyazov , Kelvin Lin , Harold Soh

Reinforcement learning shows great potential to solve complex contact-rich robot manipulation tasks. However, the safety of using RL in the real world is a crucial problem, since unexpected dangerous collisions might happen when the RL…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Xiang Zhu , Shucheng Kang , Jianyu Chen

Regulating grasping force to reduce slippage during dynamic object interaction remains a fundamental challenge in robotic manipulation, especially when objects are manipulated by multiple rolling contacts, have unknown properties (such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Cheng-Yu Kuo , Hirofumi Shin , Takamitsu Matsubara

Grasping in dynamic environments presents a unique set of challenges. A stable and reachable grasp can become unreachable and unstable as the target object moves, motion planning needs to be adaptive and in real time, the delay in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Iretiayo Akinola , Jingxi Xu , Shuran Song , Peter K. Allen

Current robotic manipulation requires reliable methods to predict whether a certain grasp on an object will be successful or not prior to its execution. Different methods and metrics have been developed for this purpose but there is still…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Carlos Rubert , Daniel Kappler , Jeannette Bohg , Antonio Morales

Autonomous grasping of novel objects that are previously unseen to a robot is an ongoing challenge in robotic manipulation. In the last decades, many approaches have been presented to address this problem for specific robot hands. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Kelin Li , Nicholas Baron , Xian Zhang , Nicolas Rojas

This study proposes novel control methods that lower impact force by preemptive movement and smoothly transition to conventional contact impedance control. These suggested techniques are for force control-based robots and position/velocity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Hikaru Arita , Hayato Nakamura , Takuto Fujiki , Kenji Tahara