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Many objects commonly found in household and industrial environments are represented by cylindrical and cubic shapes. Thus, it is available for robots to manipulate them through the real-time detection of elliptic and rectangle shape…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Huixu Dong , Jiadong Zhou , Haoyong Yu

Imitation learning and world models have shown significant promise in advancing generalizable robotic learning, with robotic grasping remaining a critical challenge for achieving precise manipulation. Existing methods often rely heavily on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Yiqi Huang , Travis Davies , Jiahuan Yan , Xiang Chen , Yu Tian , Luhui Hu

Reliably planning fingertip grasps for multi-fingered hands lies as a key challenge for many tasks including tool use, insertion, and dexterous in-hand manipulation. This task becomes even more difficult when the robot lacks an accurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Martin Matak , Tucker Hermans

Many manipulation tasks, such as placement or within-hand manipulation, require the object's pose relative to a robot hand. The task is difficult when the hand significantly occludes the object. It is especially hard for adaptive hands, for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Bowen Wen , Chaitanya Mitash , Sruthi Soorian , Andrew Kimmel , Avishai Sintov , Kostas E. Bekris

When performing manipulation-based activities such as picking objects, a mobile robot needs to position its base at a location that supports successful execution. To address this problem, prominent approaches typically rely on costly grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Manish Saini , Melvin Paul Jacob , Minh Nguyen , Nico Hochgeschwender

Robotic grasping is a fundamental yet crucial component of robotic applications, as effective grasping often serves as the starting point for various tasks. With the rapid advancement of neural networks, data-driven approaches for robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Liqi Wu , Haoyu Jia , Kento Kawaharazuka , Hirokazu Ishida , Kei Okada

Robotic grasp detection for novel objects is a challenging task, but for the last few years, deep learning based approaches have achieved remarkable performance improvements, up to 96.1% accuracy, with RGB-D data. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Dongwon Park , Yonghyeok Seo , Se Young Chun

A deep learning architecture is proposed to predict graspable locations for robotic manipulation. It considers situations where no, one, or multiple object(s) are seen. By defining the learning problem to be classification with null…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Fu-Jen Chu , Ruinian Xu , Patricio A. Vela

Grasping is fundamental to robotic manipulation, and recent advances in large-scale grasping datasets have provided essential training data and evaluation benchmarks, accelerating the development of learning-based methods for robust object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Siyu Ma , Wenxin Du , Chang Yu , Ying Jiang , Zeshun Zong , Tianyi Xie , Yunuo Chen , Yin Yang , Xuchen Han , Chenfanfu Jiang

Grasping for novel objects is important for robot manipulation in unstructured environments. Most of current works require a grasp sampling process to obtain grasp candidates, combined with local feature extractor using deep learning. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Peiyuan Ni , Wenguang Zhang , Xiaoxiao Zhu , Qixin Cao

Mobile manipulation constitutes a fundamental task for robotic assistants and garners significant attention within the robotics community. A critical challenge inherent in mobile manipulation is the effective observation of the target while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Jiazhao Zhang , Nandiraju Gireesh , Jilong Wang , Xiaomeng Fang , Chaoyi Xu , Weiguang Chen , Liu Dai , He Wang

Grasping in cluttered environments is a fundamental but challenging robotic skill. It requires both reasoning about unseen object parts and potential collisions with the manipulator. Most existing data-driven approaches avoid this problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Adithyavairavan Murali , Arsalan Mousavian , Clemens Eppner , Chris Paxton , Dieter Fox

We propose a framework for optimizing a planar parallel-jaw gripper for use with multiple objects. While optimizing general-purpose grippers and contact locations for grasps are both well studied, co-optimizing grasps and the gripper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Rebecca H. Jiang , Neel Doshi , Ravi Gondhalekar , Alberto Rodriguez

Robotic grasping is a cornerstone capability of embodied systems. Many methods directly output grasps from partial information without modeling the geometry of the scene, leading to suboptimal motion and even collisions. To address these…

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

Understanding how we grasp objects with our hands has important applications in areas like robotics and mixed reality. However, this challenging problem requires accurate modeling of the contact between hands and objects. To capture grasps,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Chandradeep Pokhariya , Ishaan N Shah , Angela Xing , Zekun Li , Kefan Chen , Avinash Sharma , Srinath Sridhar

Generating realistic hand motion sequences in interaction with objects has gained increasing attention with the growing interest in digital humans. Prior work has illustrated the effectiveness of employing occupancy-based or distance-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Keyang Zhou , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Jan Eric Lenssen , Gerard Pons-moll

Grasp detection methods typically target the detection of a set of free-floating hand poses that can grasp the object. However, not all of the detected grasp poses are executable due to physical constraints. Even though it is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Tianyi Ko , Takuya Ikeda , Balazs Opra , Koichi Nishiwaki

This article investigates the challenge of achieving functional tool-use grasping with high-DoF anthropomorphic hands, with the aim of enabling anthropomorphic hands to perform tasks that require human-like manipulation and tool-use.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Wei Wei , Peng Wang , Sizhe Wang

In this work, we address the limitation of surface fitting-based grasp planning algorithm, which primarily focuses on geometric alignment between the gripper and object surface while overlooking the stability of contact point distribution,…