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In this paper, a quick and efficient method is presented for grasping unknown objects in clutter. The grasping method relies on real-time superquadric (SQ) representation of partial view objects and incomplete object modelling, well suited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Abhijit Makhal , Frederico Thomas , Alba Perez Gracia

Robotic grasping is a primitive skill for complex tasks and is fundamental to intelligence. For general 6-Dof grasping, most previous methods directly extract scene-level semantic or geometric information, while few of them consider the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Pengwei Xie , Siang Chen , Wei Tang , Dingchang Hu , Wenming Yang , Guijin Wang

Grasping in dense clutter is a fundamental skill for autonomous robots. However, the crowdedness and occlusions in the cluttered scenario cause significant difficulties to generate valid grasp poses without collisions, which results in low…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zhan Liu , Ziwei Wang , Sichao Huang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Language-guided grasping has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling robots to identify and manipulate target objects through natural language instructions, yet it remains highly challenging in cluttered or occluded scenes. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Rui Tang , Guankun Wang , Long Bai , Huxin Gao , Jiewen Lai , Chi Kit Ng , Jiazheng Wang , Fan Zhang , Hongliang Ren

Dense collections of movable objects are common in everyday spaces-from cabinets in a home to shelves in a warehouse. Safely retracting objects from such collections is difficult for robots, yet people do it frequently, leveraging learned…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Dane Brouwer , Joshua Citron , Heather Nolte , Jeannette Bohg , Mark Cutkosky

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

Universal grasping of a diverse range of previously unseen objects from heaps is a grand challenge in e-commerce order fulfillment, manufacturing, and home service robotics. Recently, deep learning based grasping approaches have…

Currently, truss tomato weighing and packaging require significant manual work. The main obstacle to automation lies in the difficulty of developing a reliable robotic grasping system for already harvested trusses. We propose a method to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Luuk van den Bent , Tomás Coleman , Robert Babuška

Recent progress in robotic manipulation has dealt with the case of previously unknown objects in the context of relatively simple tasks, such as bin-picking. Existing methods for more constrained problems, however, such as deliberate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Chaitanya Mitash , Rahul Shome , Bowen Wen , Abdeslam Boularias , Kostas Bekris

Robots that autonomously manipulate objects within warehouses have the potential to shorten the package delivery time and improve the efficiency of the e-commerce industry. In this paper, we present a robotic system that is capable of both…

Transparent objects are a common part of everyday life, yet they possess unique visual properties that make them incredibly difficult for standard 3D sensors to produce accurate depth estimates for. In many cases, they often appear as noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Shreeyak S. Sajjan , Matthew Moore , Mike Pan , Ganesh Nagaraja , Johnny Lee , Andy Zeng , Shuran Song

In densely cluttered environments, physical interference, visual occlusions, and unstable contacts often cause direct dexterous grasping to fail, while aggressive singulation strategies may compromise safety. Enabling robots to adaptively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zixuan Chen , Wenquan Zhang , Jing Fang , Ruiming Zeng , Zhixuan Xu , Yiwen Hou , Xinke Wang , Jieqi Shi , Jing Huo , Yang Gao

A human hand can grasp a desired number of objects at once from a pile based solely on tactile sensing. To do so, a robot needs to grasp within a pile, sense the number of objects in the grasp before lifting, and predict the number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Tianze Chen , Adheesh Shenoy , Anzhelika Kolinko , Syed Shah , Yu Sun

Building on recent advancements in transformer based approaches for domestic robots performing knolling, the art of organizing scattered items into neat arrangements. This paper introduces Knolling bot 2.0. Recognizing the challenges posed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yuhang Hu , Zhizhuo Zhang , Hod Lipson

In recent times, object detection and pose estimation have gained significant attention in the context of robotic vision applications. Both the identification of objects of interest as well as the estimation of their pose remain important…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-20 S. K. Paul , M. T. Chowdhury , M. Nicolescu , M. Nicolescu

Camera viewpoint selection is an important aspect of visual grasp detection, especially in clutter where many occlusions are present. Where other approaches use a static camera position or fixed data collection routines, our Multi-View…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Douglas Morrison , Peter Corke , Jürgen Leitner

In this work a system for recognizing grasp points in RGB-D images is proposed. This system is intended to be used by a domestic robot when deploying clothes lying at a random position on a table. By taking into consideration that the grasp…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Luz María Martínez , Javier Ruiz-del-Solar

Grasping in cluttered scenes has always been a great challenge for robots, due to the requirement of the ability to well understand the scene and object information. Previous works usually assume that the geometry information of the objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Yiming Li , Tao Kong , Ruihang Chu , Yifeng Li , Peng Wang , Lei Li

An important logistics application of robotics involves manipulators that pick-and-place objects placed in warehouse shelves. A critical aspect of this task corre- sponds to detecting the pose of a known object in the shelf using visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Colin Rennie , Rahul Shome , Kostas E. Bekris , Alberto F. De Souza

The integration of vision-based frameworks to achieve lunar robot applications faces numerous challenges such as terrain configuration or extreme lighting conditions. This paper presents a generic task pipeline using object detection,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Camille Boucher , Gustavo H. Diaz , Shreya Santra , Kentaro Uno , Kazuya Yoshida