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We consider the problem of robotic grasping using depth + RGB information sampling from a real sensor. we design an encoder-decoder neural network to predict grasp policy in real time. This method can fuse the advantage of depth image and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Song Yaoxian , Cheng Chun , Fei Yuejiao , Li Xiangqing , Yu Changbin

Robotic grasping is one of the most fundamental robotic manipulation tasks and has been the subject of extensive research. However, swiftly teaching a robot to grasp a novel target object in clutter remains challenging. This paper attempts…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yang Yang , Houjian Yu , Xibai Lou , Yuanhao Liu , Changhyun Choi

In the robotic crop harvesting environment, foreign objects intrusion in the gripper workspace is frequently occurring and unignorable, however, rarely addressed. This paper presents a novel intelligent robotic grasping method capable of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Hongyu Zhou , Xing Wang , Hanwen Kang , Chao Chen

Goal-conditioned robotic grasping in cluttered environments remains a challenging problem due to occlusions caused by surrounding objects, which prevent direct access to the target object. A promising solution to mitigate this issue is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Boce Hu , Heng Tian , Dian Wang , Haojie Huang , Xupeng Zhu , Robin Walters , Robert Platt

Despite recent advancements in AI for robotics, grasping remains a partially solved challenge, hindered by the lack of benchmarks and reproducibility constraints. This paper introduces a vision-based grasping framework that can easily be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-13 François Hélénon , Johann Huber , Faïz Ben Amar , Stéphane Doncieux

Robotic manipulation in unstructured environments requires reliable execution under diverse conditions, yet many state-of-the-art systems still struggle with high-dimensional action spaces, sparse rewards, and slow generalization beyond…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Leonidas Askianakis , Aleksandr Artemov

Grasping, in both biological and engineered mechanisms, can be highly sensitive to the gripper and object morphology, as well as perception, and motion planning. Here we circumvent the need for feedback or precise planning by using an array…

Flexible instruction-guided 6-DoF grasping is a significant yet challenging task for real-world robotic systems. Existing methods utilize the contextual understanding capabilities of the large language models (LLMs) to establish mappings…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Xiaomeng Chu , Jiajun Deng , Guoliang You , Wei Liu , Xingchen Li , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

Despite the impressive progress achieved in robotic grasping, robots are not skilled in sophisticated tasks (e.g. search and grasp a specified target in clutter). Such tasks involve not only grasping but the comprehensive perception of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Hanbo Zhang , Deyu Yang , Han Wang , Binglei Zhao , Xuguang Lan , Jishiyu Ding , Nanning Zheng

Robotic grasping is one of the most fundamental robotic manipulation tasks and has been actively studied. However, how to quickly teach a robot to grasp a novel target object in clutter remains challenging. This paper attempts to tackle the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Yang Yang , Yuanhao Liu , Hengyue Liang , Xibai Lou , Changhyun Choi

Food waste management is critical for sustainability, yet inorganic contaminants hinder recycling potential. Robotic automation accelerates sorting through automated contaminant removal. Nevertheless, the diverse and unpredictable nature of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Moniesha Thilakarathna , Xing Wang , Min Wang , David Hinwood , Shuangzhe Liu , Damith Herath

Robotic grasping requires safe force interaction to prevent a grasped object from being damaged or slipping out of the hand. In this vein, this paper proposes an integrated framework for grasping with formal safety guarantees based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yitaek Kim , Jeeseop Kim , Albert H. Li , Aaron D. Ames , Christoffer Sloth

A segmentation-based architecture is proposed to decompose objects into multiple primitive shapes from monocular depth input for robotic manipulation. The backbone deep network is trained on synthetic data with 6 classes of primitive shapes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Yunzhi Lin , Chao Tang , Fu-Jen Chu , Patricio A. Vela

High-level robotic manipulation tasks demand flexible 6-DoF grasp estimation to serve as a basic function. Previous approaches either directly generate grasps from point-cloud data, suffering from challenges with small objects and sensor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Bingran Chen , Baorun Li , Jian Yang , Yong Liu , Guangyao Zhai

Self-supervised grasp learning, i.e., learning to grasp by trial and error, has made great progress. However, it is still time-consuming to train such a model and also a challenge to apply it in practice. This work presents an accelerating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Yanxu Hou , Jun Li

Recently, a number of grasp detection methods have been proposed that can be used to localize robotic grasp configurations directly from sensor data without estimating object pose. The underlying idea is to treat grasp perception…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Andreas ten Pas , Marcus Gualtieri , Kate Saenko , Robert Platt

Shape informs how an object should be grasped, both in terms of where and how. As such, this paper describes a segmentation-based architecture for decomposing objects sensed with a depth camera into multiple primitive shapes, along with a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Yunzhi Lin , Chao Tang , Fu-Jen Chu , Ruinian Xu , Patricio A. Vela

Humans coordinate the abundant degrees of freedom (DoFs) of hands to dexterously perform tasks in everyday life. We imitate human strategies to advance the dexterity of multi-DoF robotic hands. Specifically, we enable a robot hand to grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Kunpeng Yao , Aude Billard

Picking a specific object from clutter is an essential component of many manipulation tasks. Partial observations often require the robot to collect additional views of the scene before attempting a grasp. This paper proposes a closed-loop…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Michel Breyer , Lionel Ott , Roland Siegwart , Jen Jen Chung

Aiming at the traditional grasping method for manipulators based on 2D camera, when faced with the scene of gathering or covering, it can hardly perform well in unstructured scenes that appear as gathering and covering, for the reason that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Peng Gang , Liao Jinhu , Guan Shangbin