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Autonomous grasping of novel objects that are previously unseen to a robot is an ongoing challenge in robotic manipulation. In the last decades, many approaches have been presented to address this problem for specific robot hands. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Kelin Li , Nicholas Baron , Xian Zhang , Nicolas Rojas

The food packaging industry handles an immense variety of food products with wide-ranging shapes and sizes, even within one kind of food. Menus are also diverse and change frequently, making automation of pick-and-place difficult. A popular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Avinash Ummadisingu , Kuniyuki Takahashi , Naoki Fukaya

Gripping and holding of objects are key tasks for robotic manipulators. The development of universal grippers able to pick up unfamiliar objects of widely varying shape and surface properties remains, however, challenging. Most current…

In order to explore robotic grasping in unstructured and dynamic environments, this work addresses the visual perception phase involved in the task. This phase involves the processing of visual data to obtain the location of the object to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Eduardo Godinho Ribeiro , Raul de Queiroz Mendes , Valdir Grassi

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

Robust and human-like dexterous grasping of general objects is a critical capability for advancing intelligent robotic manipulation in real-world scenarios. However, existing reinforcement learning methods guided by grasp priors often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Fangting Xu , Jilin Zhu , Xiaoming Gu , Jianzhong Tang

This paper presents an assisted telemanipulation framework for reaching and grasping desired objects from clutter. Specifically, the developed system allows an operator to select an object from a cluttered heap and effortlessly grasp it,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Maxime Adjigble , Rustam Stolkin , Naresh Marturi

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

This paper proposes a novel method for randomized bin-picking based on learning. When a two-fingered gripper tries to pick an object from the pile, a finger often contacts a neighboring object. Even if a finger contacts a neighboring…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Kensuke Harada , Weiwei Wan , Tokuo Tsuji , Kohei Kikuchi , Kazuyuki Nagata , Hiromu Onda

Recent years have seen soft robotic grippers gain increasing attention due to their ability to robustly grasp soft and fragile objects. However, a commonly available standardised evaluation protocol has not yet been developed to assess the…

Robotic grasp detection task is still challenging, particularly for novel objects. With the recent advance of deep learning, there have been several works on detecting robotic grasp using neural networks. Typically, regression based grasp…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Dongwon Park , Se Young Chun

Grasp detection in a cluttered environment is still a great challenge for robots. Currently, the Transformer mechanism has been successfully applied to visual tasks, and its excellent ability of global context information extraction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Mingshuai Dong , Xiuli Yu

This paper presents a robotic pick-and-place system that is capable of grasping and recognizing both known and novel objects in cluttered environments. The key new feature of the system is that it handles a wide range of object categories…

Manipulation of thin materials is critical for many everyday tasks and remains a significant challenge for robots. While existing research has made strides in tasks like material smoothing and folding, many studies struggle with common…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Ankush Kundan Dhawan , Camille Chungyoun , Karina Ting , Monroe Kennedy

Humans can determine a proper strategy to grasp an object according to the measured physical attributes or the prior knowledge of the object. This paper proposes an approach to determining the strategy of dexterous grasping by using an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Bharath Rao , Hui Li , Krishna Krishnan , Enkhsaikhan Boldsaikhan , Hongsheng He

Grasping objects with limited or no prior knowledge about them is a highly relevant skill in assistive robotics. Still, in this general setting, it has remained an open problem, especially when it comes to only partial observability and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Matthias Humt , Dominik Winkelbauer , Ulrich Hillenbrand , Berthold Bäuml

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

Grasping is the process of picking up an object by applying forces and torques at a set of contacts. Recent advances in deep-learning methods have allowed rapid progress in robotic object grasping. In this systematic review, we surveyed the…

Objects we interact with and manipulate often share similar parts, such as handles, that allow us to transfer our actions flexibly due to their shared functionality. This work addresses the problem of transferring a grasp experience or a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Ahmet Tekden , Marc Peter Deisenroth , Yasemin Bekiroglu

Robotic grasping is an essential capability, playing a critical role in enabling robots to physically interact with their surroundings. Despite extensive research, challenges remain due to the diverse shapes and properties of target…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yeong Gwang Son , Seunghwan Um , Juyong Hong , Tat Hieu Bui , Hyouk Ryeol Choi