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Grasp synthesis is one of the challenging tasks for any robot object manipulation task. In this paper, we present a new deep learning-based grasp synthesis approach for 3D objects. In particular, we propose an end-to-end 3D Convolutional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yikun Li , Lambert Schomaker , S. Hamidreza Kasaei

A simple gripper can solve more complex manipulation tasks if it can utilize the external environment such as pushing the object against the table or a vertical wall, known as "Extrinsic Dexterity." Previous work in extrinsic dexterity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Wenxuan Zhou , David Held

Large Vision Models trained on internet-scale data have demonstrated strong capabilities in segmenting and semantically understanding object parts, even in cluttered, crowded scenes. However, while these models can direct a robot toward the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Ray Muxin Liu , Mingxuan Li , Kenneth Shaw , Deepak Pathak

This paper presents Densely Supervised Grasp Detector (DSGD), a deep learning framework which combines CNN structures with layer-wise feature fusion and produces grasps and their confidence scores at different levels of the image hierarchy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Umar Asif , Jianbin Tang , Stefan Harrer

Transformers have achieved remarkable success in time series modeling, yet their internal mechanisms remain opaque. This work demystifies the Transformer encoder by establishing its fundamental equivalence to a Graph Convolutional Network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chen Zhang , Weixin Bu , Wendong Xu , Runsheng Yu , Yik-Chung Wu , Ngai Wong

Current approaches to grasp planning for robotics demonstrate high success rates, but degrade with noisy sensors and other factors. Previous works have proposed tactile-based grasp stability classifiers to detect failures, but these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Kyle DuFrene , Cindy Grimm

The development of tactile sensing and its fusion with computer vision is expected to enhance robotic systems in handling complex tasks like deformable object manipulation. However, readily available industrial grippers typically lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Remko Proesmans , Francis wyffels

Well structured visual representations can make robot learning faster and can improve generalization. In this paper, we study how we can acquire effective object-centric representations for robotic manipulation tasks without human labeling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Eric Jang , Coline Devin , Vincent Vanhoucke , Sergey Levine

We want to build robots that are useful in unstructured real world applications, such as doing work in the household. Grasping in particular is an important skill in this domain, yet it remains a challenge. One of the key hurdles is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Ulrich Viereck , Andreas ten Pas , Kate Saenko , Robert Platt

Robotic grasping in clutters is a fundamental task in robotic manipulation. In this work, we propose an economic framework for 6-DoF grasp detection, aiming to economize the resource cost in training and meanwhile maintain effective grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Xiao-Ming Wu , Jia-Feng Cai , Jian-Jian Jiang , Dian Zheng , Yi-Lin Wei , Wei-Shi Zheng

This paper presents a comprehensive survey on vision-based robotic grasping. We conclude three key tasks during vision-based robotic grasping, which are object localization, object pose estimation and grasp estimation. In detail, the object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Guoguang Du , Kai Wang , Shiguo Lian , Kaiyong Zhao

In this work, we present a deep reinforcement learning based method to solve the problem of robotic grasping using visio-motor feedback. The use of a deep learning based approach reduces the complexity caused by the use of hand-designed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Shirin Joshi , Sulabh Kumra , Ferat Sahin

Fast grasping is critical for mobile robots in logistics, manufacturing, and service applications. Existing methods face fundamental challenges in impact stabilization under high-speed motion, real-time whole-body coordination, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Heng Tao , Yiming Zhong , Zemin Yang , Yuexin Ma

In grasp detection, the robot estimates the position and orientation of potential grasp configurations directly from sensor data. This paper explores the relationship between viewpoint and grasp detection performance. Specifically, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Marcus Gualtieri , Robert Platt

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

Change detection (CD) in remote sensing aims to identify semantic differences between satellite images captured at different times. While deep learning has significantly advanced this field, existing approaches based on convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Durgesh Ameta , Ujjwal Mishra , Praful Hambarde , Amit Shukla

Tactile and kinesthetic perceptions are crucial for human dexterous manipulation, enabling reliable grasping of objects via proprioceptive sensorimotor integration. For robotic hands, even though acquiring such tactile and kinesthetic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ce Guo , Xieyuanli Chen , Zhiwen Zeng , Zirui Guo , Yihong Li , Haoran Xiao , Dewen Hu , Huimin Lu

The ability to grasp ordinary and potentially never-seen objects is an important feature in both domestic and industrial robotics. For a system to accomplish this, it must autonomously identify grasping locations by using information from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Ludovic Trottier , Philippe Giguère , Brahim Chaib-draa

Functional grasp is essential for enabling dexterous multi-finger robot hands to manipulate objects effectively. However, most prior work either focuses on power grasping, which simply involves holding an object still, or relies on costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Hongyi Chen , Yunchao Yao , Yufei Ye , Zhixuan Xu , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Jiashun Wang , Shubham Tulsiani , Zackory Erickson , Jeffrey Ichnowski

Template-based discriminative trackers are currently the dominant tracking methods due to their robustness and accuracy, and the Siamese-network-based methods that depend on cross-correlation operation between features extracted from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Moju Zhao , Kei Okada , Masayuki Inaba