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Grasp planning and estimation have been a longstanding research problem in robotics, with two main approaches to find graspable poses on the objects: 1) geometric approach, which relies on 3D models of objects and the gripper to estimate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Xun Tu , Karthik Desingh

This paper focuses on the problem of learning 6-DOF grasping with a parallel jaw gripper in simulation. We propose the notion of a geometry-aware representation in grasping based on the assumption that knowledge of 3D geometry is at the…

Grasping accuracy is a critical prerequisite for precise object manipulation, often requiring careful alignment between the robot hand and object. Neural Descriptor Fields (NDF) offer a promising vision-based method to generate grasping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yijiong Lin , Bowen Deng , Keju Pu , Chenghua Lu , Max Yang , Efi Psomopoulou , Nathan F. Lepora

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 propose Neural Deformable Fields (NDF), a new representation for dynamic human digitization from a multi-view video. Recent works proposed to represent a dynamic human body with shared canonical neural radiance fields which links to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Ruiqi Zhang , Jie Chen

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) have been a vital representation to represent 3D shapes or scenes with neural networks. An SDF is an implicit function that can query signed distances at specific coordinates for recovering a 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Qiang Bai , Bojian Wu , Xi Yang , Zhizhong Han

A robot self-model is a task-agnostic representation of the robot's physical morphology that can be used for motion planning tasks in the absence of a classical geometric kinematic model. In particular, when the latter is hard to engineer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Lennart Schulze , Hod Lipson

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

In this paper, we introduce a Grasp Manifold Estimator (GraspME) to detect grasp affordances for objects directly in 2D camera images. To perform manipulation tasks autonomously it is crucial for robots to have such graspability models of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Janik Hager , Ruben Bauer , Marc Toussaint , Jim Mainprice

Neural Fields have emerged as a transformative approach for 3D scene representation in computer vision and robotics, enabling accurate inference of geometry, 3D semantics, and dynamics from posed 2D data. Leveraging differentiable…

Neural networks that map 3D coordinates to signed distance function (SDF) or occupancy values have enabled high-fidelity implicit representations of object shape. This paper develops a new shape model that allows synthesizing novel distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Ehsan Zobeidi , Nikolay Atanasov

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising machine learning paradigm that enables participating devices to train privacy-preserved and collaborative models. FL has proven its benefits for robotic manipulation tasks. However, grasping tasks lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Obaidullah Zaland , Erik Elmroth , Monowar Bhuyan

The use of machine learning to investigate grasp affordances has received extensive attention over the past several decades. The existing literature provides a robust basis to build upon, though a number of aspects may be improved. Results…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Michael Zechmair , Yannick Morel

Robots in the real world frequently come across identical objects in dense clutter. When evaluating grasp poses in these scenarios, a target-driven grasping system requires knowledge of spatial relations between scene objects (e.g.,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Xibai Lou , Yang Yang , Changhyun Choi

Robotic grasping is a primitive skill for complex tasks and is fundamental to intelligence. For general 6-Dof grasping, most previous methods directly extract scene-level semantic or geometric information, while few of them consider the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Pengwei Xie , Siang Chen , Wei Tang , Dingchang Hu , Wenming Yang , Guijin Wang

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) are emerging as an effective representation for 3D shapes. State-of-the-art methods typically encode the SDF with a large, fixed-size neural network to approximate complex shapes with implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Towaki Takikawa , Joey Litalien , Kangxue Yin , Karsten Kreis , Charles Loop , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Alec Jacobson , Morgan McGuire , Sanja Fidler

We propose to learn to generate grasping motion for manipulation with a dexterous hand using implicit functions. With continuous time inputs, the model can generate a continuous and smooth grasping plan. We name the proposed model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jianglong Ye , Jiashun Wang , Binghao Huang , Yuzhe Qin , Xiaolong Wang

Optimization-based trajectory generation methods are widely used in whole-body planning for robots. However, existing work either oversimplifies the robot's geometry and environment representation, resulting in a conservative trajectory, or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Tingrui Zhang , Jingping Wang , Chao Xu , Alan Gao , Fei Gao

Robotic grasping is a fundamental ability for a robot to interact with the environment. Current methods focus on how to obtain a stable and reliable grasping pose in object level, while little work has been studied on part (shape)-wise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yaoxian Song , Penglei Sun , Piaopiao Jin , Yi Ren , Yu Zheng , Zhixu Li , Xiaowen Chu , Yue Zhang , Tiefeng Li , Jason Gu

Currently, task-oriented grasp detection approaches are mostly based on pixel-level affordance detection and semantic segmentation. These pixel-level approaches heavily rely on the accuracy of a 2D affordance mask, and the generated grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Wenkai Chen , Hongzhuo Liang , Zhaopeng Chen , Fuchun Sun , Jianwei Zhang