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This paper proposes a learning-based visual peg-in-hole that enables training with several shapes in simulation, and adapting to arbitrary unseen shapes in real world with minimal sim-to-real cost. The core idea is to decouple the…
Vision-based control provides a significant potential for the end-point positioning of continuum robots under physical sensing limitations. Traditional visual servoing requires feature extraction and tracking followed by full or partial…
We present a robust markerless image based visual servoing method that enables precision robot control without hand-eye and camera calibrations in 1, 3, and 5 degrees-of-freedom. The system uses two cameras for observing the workspace and a…
Contact-rich manipulation tasks in unstructured environments often require both haptic and visual feedback. It is non-trivial to manually design a robot controller that combines these modalities which have very different characteristics.…
Visual servoing involves choosing actions that move a robot in response to observations from a camera, in order to reach a goal configuration in the world. Standard visual servoing approaches typically rely on manually designed features and…
Peg transfer is a well-known surgical training task in the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS). While human sur-geons teleoperate robots such as the da Vinci to perform this task with high speed and accuracy, it is challenging to…
Today robots must be safe, versatile, and user-friendly to operate in unstructured and human-populated environments. Dynamical system-based imitation learning enables robots to perform complex tasks stably and without explicit programming,…
An increasing number of nonspecialist robotic users demand easy-to-use machines. In the context of visual servoing, the removal of explicit image processing is becoming a trend, allowing an easy application of this technique. This work…
For peg-in-hole tasks, humans rely on binocular visual perception to locate the peg above the hole surface and then proceed with insertion. This paper draws insights from this behavior to enable agents to learn efficient assembly strategies…
Industrial insertion tasks are often performed repetitively with parts that are subject to tight tolerances and prone to breakage. Learning an industrial insertion policy in real is challenging as the collision between the parts and the…
The automation of robotic tasks requires high precision and adaptability, particularly in force-based operations such as insertions. Traditional learning-based approaches either rely on static datasets, which limit their ability to…
Insertion operations are a critical element of most robotic assembly operation, and peg-in-hole (PiH) insertion is one of the most widely studied tasks in the industrial and academic manipulation communities. PiH insertion is in fact an…
Traditional visual servoing methods suffer from serving between scenes from multiple perspectives, which humans can complete with visual signals alone. In this paper, we investigated how multi-perspective visual servoing could be solved…
With the high focus on autonomous aerial refueling recently, it becomes increasingly urgent to design efficient methods or algorithms to solve AAR problems in complicated aerial environments. Apart from the complex aerodynamic disturbance,…
We present KOVIS, a novel learning-based, calibration-free visual servoing method for fine robotic manipulation tasks with eye-in-hand stereo camera system. We train the deep neural network only in the simulated environment; and the trained…
Visual servoing techniques guide robotic motion using visual information to accomplish manipulation tasks, requiring high precision and robustness against noise. Traditional methods often require prior knowledge and are susceptible to…
Existing deep learning based visual servoing approaches regress the relative camera pose between a pair of images. Therefore, they require a huge amount of training data and sometimes fine-tuning for adaptation to a novel scene.…
Anchor-bolt insertion is a peg-in-hole task performed in the construction field for holes in concrete. Efforts have been made to automate this task, but the variable lighting and hole surface conditions, as well as the requirements for…
The manufacturing industry is currently witnessing a paradigm shift with the unprecedented adoption of industrial robots, and machine vision is a key perception technology that enables these robots to perform precise operations in…
One of the main challenges in peg-in-a-hole (PiH) insertion tasks is in handling the uncertainty in the location of the target hole. In order to address it, high-dimensional sensor inputs from sensor modalities such as vision, force/torque…