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Robotic systems in manufacturing applications commonly assume known object geometry and appearance. This simplifies the task for the 3D perception algorithms and allows the manipulation to be more deterministic. However, those approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Benjamin Joffe , Tevon Walker. Remi Gourdon , Konrad Ahlin

Given the task of learning robotic grasping solely based on a depth camera input and gripper force feedback, we derive a learning algorithm from an applied point of view to significantly reduce the amount of required training data. Major…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Lars Berscheid , Thomas Rühr , Torsten Kröger

Generating grasp poses is a crucial component for any robot object manipulation task. In this work, we formulate the problem of grasp generation as sampling a set of grasps using a variational autoencoder and assess and refine the sampled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Arsalan Mousavian , Clemens Eppner , Dieter Fox

Apples are among the most widely consumed fruits worldwide. Currently, apple harvesting fully relies on manual labor, which is costly, drudging, and hazardous to workers. Hence, robotic harvesting has attracted increasing attention in…

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

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

This paper presents an AI system applied to location and robotic grasping. Experimental setup is based on a parameter study to train a deep-learning network based on Mask-RCNN to perform waste location in indoor and outdoor environment,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Victor De Gea , Santiago T. Puente , Pablo Gil

Over the last few years, the number of precision farming projects has increased specifically in harvesting robots and many of which have made continued progress from identifying crops to grasping the desired fruit or vegetable. One of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Samuel Brandenburg , Pedro Machado , Nikesh Lama , T. M. McGinnity

Fruit distribution is pivotal in shaping the future of both agriculture and agricultural robotics, paving the way for a streamlined supply chain. This study introduces an innovative methodology that harnesses the synergy of RGB imagery,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Kaiming Fu , Peng Wei , Juan Villacres , Zhaodan Kong , Stavros G. Vougioukas , Brian N. Bailey

Grasping of novel objects in pick and place applications is a fundamental and challenging problem in robotics, specifically for complex-shaped objects. It is observed that the well-known strategies like \textit{i}) grasping from the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Mohit Vohra , Ravi Prakash , Laxmidhar Behera

In warehouse environments, robots require robust picking capabilities to manage a wide variety of objects. Effective deployment demands minimal hardware, strong generalization to new products, and resilience in diverse settings. Current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Soofiyan Atar , Yi Li , Markus Grotz , Michael Wolf , Dieter Fox , Joshua Smith

Autonomous robots in orchards require real-time 3D scene understanding despite repetitive row geometry, seasonal appearance changes, and wind-driven foliage motion. We present AgriGS-SLAM, a Visual--LiDAR SLAM framework that couples direct…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Mirko Usuelli , David Rapado-Rincon , Gert Kootstra , Matteo Matteucci

A significant challenge for real-world robotic manipulation is the effective 6DoF grasping of objects in cluttered scenes from any single viewpoint without the need for additional scene exploration. This work reinterprets grasping as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Snehal Jauhri , Ishikaa Lunawat , Georgia Chalvatzaki

We present a novel fruit counting pipeline that combines deep segmentation, frame to frame tracking, and 3D localization to accurately count visible fruits across a sequence of images. Our pipeline works on image streams from a monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Xu Liu , Steven W. Chen , Shreyas Aditya , Nivedha Sivakumar , Sandeep Dcunha , Chao Qu , Camillo J. Taylor , Jnaneshwar Das , Vijay Kumar

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

Grasping objects is a fundamental yet important capability of robots, and many tasks such as sorting and picking rely on this skill. The prerequisite for stable grasping is the ability to correctly identify suitable grasping positions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Boyuan Cao , Xinyu Zhou , Congmin Guo , Baohua Zhang , Yuchen Liu , Qianqiu Tan

Accurate robot localization relative to orchard row centerlines is essential for autonomous guidance where satellite signals are often obstructed by foliage. Existing sensor-based approaches rely on various features extracted from images…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Zhenghao Fei , Stavros Vougioukas

As technology progresses, smart automated systems will serve an increasingly important role in the agricultural industry. Current existing vision systems for yield estimation face difficulties in occlusion and scalability as they utilize a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Andy Kweon , Vishnu Hu , Jong Yoon Lim , Trevor Gee , Edmond Liu , Henry Williams , Bruce A. MacDonald , Mahla Nejati , Inkyu Sa , Ho Seok Ahn

Autonomous locomotion for mobile ground robots in unstructured environments such as waypoint navigation or flipper control requires a sufficiently accurate prediction of the robot-terrain interaction. Heuristics like occupancy grids or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Martin Oehler , Oskar von Stryk

In table grape cultivation, harvesting depends on accurately assessing fruit quality. While some characteristics, like color, are visible, others, such as Soluble Solid Content (SSC), or sugar content measured in degrees Brix ({\deg}Brix),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Thomas Alessandro Ciarfuglia , Ionut Marian Motoi , Leonardo Saraceni , Daniele Nardi