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Warehouse robotic systems equipped with vacuum grippers must reliably grasp a diverse range of objects from densely packed shelves. However, these environments present significant challenges, including occlusions, diverse object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Paolo Torrado , Joshua Levin , Markus Grotz , Joshua Smith

Given the task of learning robotic grasping solely based on a depth camera input and gripper force feedback, we derive a learning algorithm from an applied point of view to significantly reduce the amount of required training data. Major…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Lars Berscheid , Thomas Rühr , Torsten Kröger

Deep learning has significantly advanced computer vision and natural language processing. While there have been some successes in robotics using deep learning, it has not been widely adopted. In this paper, we present a novel robotic grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Sulabh Kumra , Christopher Kanan

Extracting a known target object from a pile of other objects in a cluttered environment is a challenging robotic manipulation task encountered in many robotic applications. In such conditions, the target object touches or is covered by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Iason Sarantopoulos , Marios Kiatos , Zoe Doulgeri , Sotiris Malassiotis

In this paper we study grasp problem in dense cluster, a challenging task in warehouse logistics scenario. By introducing a two-step robust suction affordance detection method, we focus on using vacuum suction pad to clear up a box filled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Mingshuo Han , Wenhai Liu. , Zhenyu Pan , Teng Xue , Quanquan Shao , Jin Ma , Weiming Wang

General robot grasping in clutter requires the ability to synthesize grasps that work for previously unseen objects and that are also robust to physical interactions, such as collisions with other objects in the scene. In this work, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Michel Breyer , Jen Jen Chung , Lionel Ott , Roland Siegwart , Juan Nieto

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

This paper presents planning algorithms for a robotic manipulator with a fixed base in order to grasp a target object in cluttered environments. We consider a configuration of objects in a confined space with a high density so no…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Changjoo Nam , Jinhwi Lee , Younggil Cho , Jeongho Lee , Dong Hwan Kim , ChangHwan Kim

Planning motions to grasp an object in cluttered and uncertain environments is a challenging task, particularly when a collision-free trajectory does not exist and objects obstructing the way are required to be carefully grasped and moved…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Muhayyuddin , Mark Moll , Lydia Kavraki , Jan Rosell

We focus on the task of goal-oriented grasping, in which a robot is supposed to grasp a pre-assigned goal object in clutter and needs some pre-grasp actions such as pushes to enable stable grasps. However, in this task, the robot gets…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Kechun Xu , Hongxiang Yu , Qianen Lai , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

Accurate grasping is the key to several robotic tasks including assembly and household robotics. Executing a successful grasp in a cluttered environment requires multiple levels of scene understanding: First, the robot needs to analyze the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-13 René Zurbrügg , Yifan Liu , Francis Engelmann , Suryansh Kumar , Marco Hutter , Vaishakh Patil , Fisher Yu

Robots operating in human-centric environments require the integration of visual grounding and grasping capabilities to effectively manipulate objects based on user instructions. This work focuses on the task of referring grasp synthesis,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Georgios Tziafas , Yucheng Xu , Arushi Goel , Mohammadreza Kasaei , Zhibin Li , Hamidreza Kasaei

Artificial intelligence is essential to succeed in challenging activities that involve dynamic environments, such as object manipulation tasks in indoor scenes. Most of the state-of-the-art literature explores robotic grasping methods by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Paola Ardón , Èric Pairet , Ron Petrick , Subramanian Ramamoorthy , Katrin Lohan

In this paper, we introduce a novel learning-based approach for grasping known rigid objects in highly cluttered scenes and precisely placing them based on depth images. Our Placement Quality Network (PQ-Net) estimates the object pose and…

We present a novel approach to robotic grasp planning using both a learned grasp proposal network and a learned 3D shape reconstruction network. Our system generates 6-DOF grasps from a single RGB-D image of the target object, which is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Daniel Yang , Tarik Tosun , Ben Eisner , Volkan Isler , Daniel Lee

In vision-based robot manipulation, a single camera view can only capture one side of objects of interest, with additional occlusions in cluttered scenes further restricting visibility. As a result, the observed geometry is incomplete, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Abhishek Kashyap , Yuxuan Yang , Henrik Andreasson , Todor Stoyanov

We introduce a novel strategy for multi-robot sorting of waste objects using Reinforcement Learning. Our focus lies on finding optimal picking strategies that facilitate an effective coordination of a multi-robot system, subject to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Tizian Jermann , Hendrik Kolvenbach , Fidel Esquivel Estay , Koen Kramer , Marco Hutter

The accumulation of litter is increasing in many places and is consequently becoming a problem that must be dealt with. In this paper, we present a manipulator robotic system to collect litter in outdoor environments. This system has three…

Efficient and safe retrieval of stacked objects in warehouse environments is a significant challenge due to complex spatial dependencies and structural inter-dependencies. Traditional vision-based methods excel at object localization but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Abhinav Pathak , Rajkumar Muthusamy

Data-driven approaches have become a dominant paradigm for robotic grasp planning. However, the performance of these approaches is enormously influenced by the quality of the available training data. In this paper, we propose a framework to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Junnan Jiang , Yuyang Tu , Xiaohui Xiao , Zhongtao Fu , Jianwei Zhang , Fei Chen , Miao Li