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General object grasping is an important yet unsolved problem in the field of robotics. Most of the current methods either generate grasp poses with few DoF that fail to cover most of the success grasps, or only take the unstable depth image…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Minghao Gou , Hao-Shu Fang , Zhanda Zhu , Sheng Xu , Chenxi Wang , Cewu Lu

Accurate grasping is the key to several robotic tasks including assembly and household robotics. Executing a successful grasp in a cluttered environment requires multiple levels of scene understanding: First, the robot needs to analyze the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-13 René Zurbrügg , Yifan Liu , Francis Engelmann , Suryansh Kumar , Marco Hutter , Vaishakh Patil , Fisher Yu

Grasp pose detection in cluttered, real-world environments remains a significant challenge due to noisy and incomplete sensory data combined with complex object geometries. This paper introduces Grasp the Graph 2.0 (GtG 2.0) method, a…

In this work, we present a geometry-based grasping algorithm that is capable of efficiently generating both top and side grasps for unknown objects, using a single view RGB-D camera, and of selecting the most promising one. We demonstrate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Brice Denoun , Beatriz Leon , Claudio Zito , Rustam Stolkin , Lorenzo Jamone , Miles Hansard

Controlling hand exoskeletons for assisting impaired patients in grasping tasks is challenging because it is difficult to infer user intent. We hypothesize that majority of daily grasping tasks fall into a small set of categories or modes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Jackson M. Steinkamp , Laura J. Brattain , Conor J. Walsh , Robert D. Howe

6-DoF grasp detection is critically important for the advancement of intelligent embodied systems, as it provides feasible robot poses for object grasping. Various methods have been proposed to detect 6-DoF grasps through the extraction of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Kaiqin Yang , Yixiang Dai , Guijin Wang , Siang Chen

Shape completion networks have been used recently in real-world robotic experiments to complete the missing/hidden information in environments where objects are only observed in one or few instances where self-occlusions are bound to occur.…

Deep object pose estimators are notoriously overconfident. A grasping agent that both estimates the 6-DoF pose of a target object and predicts the uncertainty of its own estimate could avoid task failure by choosing not to act under high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Eric C. Joyce , Qianwen Zhao , Nathaniel Burgdorfer , Long Wang , Philippos Mordohai

Grasp planning and most specifically the grasp space exploration is still an open issue in robotics. This article presents an efficient procedure for exploring the grasp space of a multifingered adaptive gripper for generating reliable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Clément Rolinat , Mathieu Grossard , Saifeddine Aloui , Christelle Godin

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

This study introduces i-GRIP, an innovative movement goal estimator designed to facilitate the control of assistive devices for grasping tasks in individuals with upperlimb impairments. The algorithm operates within a collaborative control…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-26 Etienne Moullet , François Bailly , Justin Carpentier , Christine Azevedo Coste

This paper looks into the problem of grasping unknown objects in a cluttered environment using 3D point cloud data obtained from a range or an RGBD sensor. The objective is to identify graspable regions and detect suitable grasp poses from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Olyvia Kundu , Swagat Kumar

We consider the problem of detecting robotic grasps in an RGB-D view of a scene containing objects. In this work, we apply a deep learning approach to solve this problem, which avoids time-consuming hand-design of features. This presents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-22 Ian Lenz , Honglak Lee , Ashutosh Saxena

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

6D pose recognition has been a crucial factor in the success of robotic grasping, and recent deep learning based approaches have achieved remarkable results on benchmarks. However, their generalization capabilities in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Hongpeng Cao , Lukas Dirnberger , Daniele Bernardini , Cristina Piazza , Marco Caccamo

For transradial amputees, robotic prosthetic hands promise to regain the capability to perform daily living activities. To advance next-generation prosthetic hand control design, it is crucial to address current shortcomings in robustness…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Mehrshad Zandigohar , Mallesham Dasari , Gunar Schirner

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

Recently, deep learning has been successfully applied to robotic grasp detection. Based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), there have been lots of end-to-end detection approaches. But end-to-end approaches have strict requirements for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Zhe Chu , Mengkai Hu , Xiangyu Chen

Grasp force estimation can help prevent robots from damaging delicate objects during manipulation and improve learning-based robotic control. Integrating force sensing into deformable grippers negotiates trade-offs in cost, complexity,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Kaiwen Zuo , Shuyuan Yang , Zonghe Chua

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