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This paper presents a novel regrasp control policy that makes use of tactile sensing to plan local grasp adjustments. Our approach determines regrasp actions by virtually searching for local transformations of tactile measurements that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Francois R. Hogan , Maria Bauza , Oleguer Canal , Elliott Donlon , Alberto Rodriguez

The ability to robustly grasp a variety of objects is essential for dexterous robots. In this paper, we present a framework for zero-shot dynamic dexterous grasping using single-view visual inputs, designed to be resilient to various…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Hui Zhang , Zijian Wu , Linyi Huang , Sammy Christen , Jie Song

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

Current robotic grasping methods often rely on estimating the pose of the target object, explicitly predicting grasp poses, or implicitly estimating grasp success probabilities. In this work, we propose a novel approach that directly maps…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Gergely Sóti , Björn Hein , Christian Wurll

We treat the problem of autonomous acquisition of manipulation skills where problem-solving strategies are initially available only for a narrow range of situations. We propose to extend the range of solvable situations by autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Simon Hangl , Vedran Dunjko , Hans J. Briegel , Justus Piater

Robotic grasp should be carried out in a real-time manner by proper accuracy. Perception is the first and significant step in this procedure. This paper proposes an improved pipeline model trying to detect grasp as a rectangle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hamed Hosseini , Mehdi Tale Masouleh , Ahmad Kalhor

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…

Interactive grasping from clutter, akin to human dexterity, is one of the longest-standing problems in robot learning. Challenges stem from the intricacies of visual perception, the demand for precise motor skills, and the complex interplay…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Malte Mosbach , Sven Behnke

We propose a novel approach to multi-fingered grasp planning leveraging learned deep neural network models. We train a convolutional neural network to predict grasp success as a function of both visual information of an object and grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Qingkai Lu , Kautilya Chenna , Balakumar Sundaralingam , Tucker Hermans

Industrial bin picking for tangled-prone objects requires the robot to either pick up untangled objects or perform separation manipulation when the bin contains no isolated objects. The robot must be able to flexibly perform appropriate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Xinyi Zhang , Yukiyasu Domae , Weiwei Wan , Kensuke Harada

Autonomous learning of object manipulation skills can enable robots to acquire rich behavioral repertoires that scale to the variety of objects found in the real world. However, current motion skill learning methods typically restrict the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Sergey Levine , Nolan Wagener , Pieter Abbeel

It has always been expected that a robot can be easily deployed to unknown scenarios, accomplishing robotic grasping tasks without human intervention. Nevertheless, existing grasp detection approaches are typically off-body techniques and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jin Liu , Jialong Xie , Leibing Xiao , Chaoqun Wang , Fengyu Zhou

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

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been proven to be a powerful paradigm for learning complex control policy autonomously. Numerous recent applications of DRL in robotic grasping have successfully trained DRL robotic agents end-to-end,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Zhixin Chen , Mengxiang Lin , Zhixin Jia , Shibo Jian

Currently, task-oriented grasp detection approaches are mostly based on pixel-level affordance detection and semantic segmentation. These pixel-level approaches heavily rely on the accuracy of a 2D affordance mask, and the generated grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Wenkai Chen , Hongzhuo Liang , Zhaopeng Chen , Fuchun Sun , Jianwei Zhang

Intelligent Object manipulation for grasping is a challenging problem for robots. Unlike robots, humans almost immediately know how to manipulate objects for grasping due to learning over the years. A grown woman can grasp objects more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Priya Shukla , Hitesh Kumar , G. C. Nandi

Reliable object grasping is a crucial capability for autonomous robots. However, many existing grasping approaches focus on general clutter removal without explicitly modeling objects and thus only relying on the visible local geometry. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Eugenio Chisari , Nick Heppert , Tim Welschehold , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

Grasping objects under uncertainty remains an open problem in robotics research. This uncertainty is often due to noisy or partial observations of the object pose or shape. To enable a robot to react appropriately to unforeseen effects, it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Hamza Merzic , Miroslav Bogdanovic , Daniel Kappler , Ludovic Righetti , Jeannette Bohg

Robotic grasping is a crucial area of research as it can result in the acceleration of the automation of several Industries utilizing robots ranging from manufacturing to healthcare. Reinforcement learning is the field of study where an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Raghav Nagpal , Achyuthan Unni Krishnan , Hanshen Yu

Nowadays service robots are leaving the structured and completely known environments and entering human-centric settings. For these robots, object perception and grasping are two challenging tasks due to the high demand for accurate and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-26 S. Hamidreza Kasaei