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We consider the problem of sorting a densely cluttered pile of unknown objects using a robot. This yet unsolved problem is relevant in the robotic waste sorting business. By extending previous active learning approaches to grasping, we show…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Janne V. Kujala , Tuomas J. Lukka , Harri Holopainen

Grasping objects in cluttered scenarios is a challenging task in robotics. Performing pre-grasp actions such as pushing and shifting to scatter objects is a way to reduce clutter. Based on deep reinforcement learning, we propose a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Dafa Ren , Xiaoqiang Ren , Xiaofan Wang , S. Tejaswi Digumarti , Guodong Shi

Robotic grasping in cluttered environments is often infeasible due to obstacles preventing possible grasps. Then, pre-grasping manipulation like shifting or pushing an object becomes necessary. We developed an algorithm that can learn, in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Lars Berscheid , Pascal Meißner , Torsten Kröger

Recently, a number of grasp detection methods have been proposed that can be used to localize robotic grasp configurations directly from sensor data without estimating object pose. The underlying idea is to treat grasp perception…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Andreas ten Pas , Marcus Gualtieri , Kate Saenko , Robert Platt

Robust grasping in cluttered environments remains an open challenge in robotics. While benchmark datasets have significantly advanced deep learning methods, they mainly focus on simplistic scenes with light occlusion and insufficient…

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

Robots benefit from being able to classify objects they interact with or manipulate based on their material properties. This capability ensures fine manipulation of complex objects through proper grasp pose and force selection. Prior work…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Nathaniel Hanson , Tarik Kelestemur , Deniz Erdogmus , Taskin Padir

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

Object pose estimation is a critical task in robotics for precise object manipulation. However, current techniques heavily rely on a reference 3D object, limiting their generalizability and making it expensive to expand to new object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 E. Zhixuan Zeng , Yuhao Chen , Alexander Wong

Planning motions to grasp an object in cluttered and uncertain environments is a challenging task, particularly when a collision-free trajectory does not exist and objects obstructing the way are required to be carefully grasped and moved…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Muhayyuddin , Mark Moll , Lydia Kavraki , Jan Rosell

Robotic grasping of arbitrary objects even in completely known environments still remains a challenging problem. Most previously developed algorithms had focused on fingertip grasp, failing to solve the problem even for fully actuated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-23 IA Sainul , Sankha Deb , AK Deb

This study presents a grasping method for objects with uneven mass distribution by leveraging diffusion models to localize the center of gravity (CoG) on unknown objects. In robotic grasping, CoG deviation often leads to postural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Kang Xiangli , Yage He , Xianwu Gong , Zehan Liu , Yuru Bai

Aiming at the traditional grasping method for manipulators based on 2D camera, when faced with the scene of gathering or covering, it can hardly perform well in unstructured scenes that appear as gathering and covering, for the reason that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Peng Gang , Liao Jinhu , Guan Shangbin

Robotic vision plays a key role for perceiving the environment in grasping applications. However, the conventional framed-based robotic vision, suffering from motion blur and low sampling rate, may not meet the automation needs of evolving…

We propose an approach to multi-modal grasp detection that jointly predicts the probabilities that several types of grasps succeed at a given grasp pose. Given a partial point cloud of a scene, the algorithm proposes a set of feasible grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Matt Corsaro , Stefanie Tellex , George Konidaris

Flexible industrial production systems will play a central role in the future of manufacturing due to higher product individualization and customization. A key component in such systems is the robotic grasping of known or unknown objects in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Alexander Koebler , Ralf Gross , Florian Buettner , Ingo Thon

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

Robots often face situations where grasping a goal object is desirable but not feasible due to other present objects preventing the grasp action. We present a deep Reinforcement Learning approach to learn grasping and pushing policies for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yongliang Wang , Kamal Mokhtar , Cock Heemskerk , Hamidreza Kasaei

Grasping unknown objects from a single view has remained a challenging topic in robotics due to the uncertainty of partial observation. Recent advances in large-scale models have led to benchmark solutions such as GraspNet-1Billion.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Hao Chen , Takuya Kiyokawa , Zhengtao Hu , Weiwei Wan , Kensuke Harada

For planning rearrangements of objects in a clutter, it is required to know the goal configuration of the objects. However, in real life scenarios, this information is not available most of the time. We introduce a novel method that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Abdul Rahman Dabbour , Esra Erdem , Volkan Patoglu