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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

We propose a novel approach to multi-fingered grasp planning leveraging learned deep neural network models. We train a convolutional neural network to predict grasp success as a function of both visual information of an object and grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Qingkai Lu , Kautilya Chenna , Balakumar Sundaralingam , Tucker Hermans

Robotic grasping is facing a variety of real-world uncertainties caused by non-static object states, unknown object properties, and cluttered object arrangements. The difficulty of grasping increases with the presence of more uncertainties,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Hao Chen , Takuya Kiyokawa , Weiwei Wan , Kensuke Harada

A deep learning architecture is proposed to predict graspable locations for robotic manipulation. It considers situations where no, one, or multiple object(s) are seen. By defining the learning problem to be classification with null…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Fu-Jen Chu , Ruinian Xu , Patricio A. Vela

In robot manipulation, planning the motion of a robot manipulator to grasp an object is a fundamental problem. A manipulation planner needs to generate a trajectory of the manipulator arm to avoid obstacles in the environment and plan an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Lirui Wang , Yu Xiang , Dieter Fox

Robot learning of real-world manipulation tasks remains challenging and time consuming, even though actions are often simplified by single-step manipulation primitives. In order to compensate the removed time dependency, we additionally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Lars Berscheid , Pascal Meißner , Torsten Kröger

In warehouse and manufacturing environments, manipulation platforms are frequently deployed at conveyor belts to perform pick and place tasks. Because objects on the conveyor belts are moving, robots have limited time to pick them up. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Fahad Islam , Oren Salzman , Aditya Agarwal , Maxim Likhachev

We propose a novel approach to multi-fingered grasp planning leveraging learned deep neural network models. We train a voxel-based 3D convolutional neural network to predict grasp success probability as a function of both visual information…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Qingkai Lu , Mark Van der Merwe , Balakumar Sundaralingam , Tucker Hermans

Nowadays, a number of grasping algorithms have been proposed, that can predict a candidate of grasp poses, even for unseen objects. This enables a robotic manipulator to pick-and-place such objects. However, some of the predicted grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Jiaming Hu , Zhao Tang , Henrik I. Christensen

Human-robot handover is a fundamental yet challenging task in human-robot interaction and collaboration. Recently, remarkable progressions have been made in human-to-robot handovers of unknown objects by using learning-based grasp…

We tackle the Online 3D Bin Packing Problem, a challenging yet practically useful variant of the classical Bin Packing Problem. In this problem, the items are delivered to the agent without informing the full sequence information. Agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Hang Zhao , Chenyang Zhu , Xin Xu , Hui Huang , Kai Xu

In this paper, we study whether inexpensive, physics-free supervision can reliably prioritize grasp-place candidates for budget-aware pick-and-place. From an object's initial pose, target pose, and a candidate grasp, we generate two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Tianyuan Liu , Richard Dazeley , Benjamin Champion , Akan Cosgun

Objects grasping, also known as the bin-picking, is one of the most common tasks faced by industrial robots. While much work has been done in related topics, grasping randomly piled objects still remains a challenge because much of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Jiaxin Guo , Lian Fu , Mingkai Jia , Kaijun Wang , Shan Liu

Autonomous robots are widely utilized for mapping and exploration tasks due to their cost-effectiveness. Multi-robot systems offer scalability and efficiency, especially in terms of the number of robots deployed in more complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Apoorva Vashisth , Manav Kulshrestha , Damon Conover , Aniket Bera

This paper shows experimental results on learning based randomized bin-picking combined with iterative visual recognition. We use the random forest to predict whether or not a robot will successfully pick an object for given depth images of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Kensuke Harada , Weiwei Wan , Tokuo Tsuji , Kohei Kikuchi , Kazuyuki Nagata , Hiromu Onda

In this paper we propose an approach for efficient grasp selection for manipulation tasks of unknown objects. Even for simple tasks such as pick-and-place, a unique solution is rare to occur. Rather, multiple candidate grasps must be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Ana Huaman Quispe , Heni Ben Amor , Henrik Christensen , Mike Stilman

Tool use often fails not because robots misidentify tools, but because grasps cannot withstand task-induced wrench. Existing vision-language manipulation systems ground tools and contact regions from language yet select grasps under…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Noah Trupin , Zixing Wang , Ahmed H. Qureshi

Multi-suction-cup grippers are frequently employed to perform pick-and-place robotic tasks, especially in industrial settings where grasping a wide range of light to heavy objects in limited amounts of time is a common requirement. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Jee-eun Lee , Robert Sun , Andrew Bylard , Luis Sentis

The choice of a grasp plays a critical role in the success of downstream manipulation tasks. Consider a task of placing an object in a cluttered scene; the majority of possible grasps may not be suitable for the desired placement. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zhanpeng He , Nikhil Chavan-Dafle , Jinwook Huh , Shuran Song , Volkan Isler

This paper presents a hierarchical framework for planning and control of in-hand manipulation of a rigid object involving grasp changes using fully-actuated multifingered robotic hands. While the framework can be applied to the general…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Rana Soltani Zarrin , Katsu Yamane , Rianna Jitosho