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The language-guided robot grasping task requires a robot agent to integrate multimodal information from both visual and linguistic inputs to predict actions for target-driven grasping. While recent approaches utilizing Multimodal Large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Houjian Yu , Mingen Li , Alireza Rezazadeh , Yang Yang , Changhyun Choi

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

Despite significant progress in robotic systems for operation within human-centric environments, existing models still heavily rely on explicit human commands to identify and manipulate specific objects. This limits their effectiveness in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Shiyu Jin , Jinxuan Xu , Yutian Lei , Liangjun Zhang

Language-guided long-horizon manipulation of deformable objects presents significant challenges due to high degrees of freedom, complex dynamics, and the need for accurate vision-language grounding. In this work, we focus on multi-step…

Grasping objects in cluttered scenarios is a challenging task in robotics. Performing pre-grasp actions such as pushing and shifting to scatter objects is a way to reduce clutter. Based on deep reinforcement learning, we propose a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Dafa Ren , Xiaoqiang Ren , Xiaofan Wang , S. Tejaswi Digumarti , Guodong Shi

Robotic grasping in cluttered environments is often infeasible due to obstacles preventing possible grasps. Then, pre-grasping manipulation like shifting or pushing an object becomes necessary. We developed an algorithm that can learn, in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Lars Berscheid , Pascal Meißner , Torsten Kröger

Consider the scenario where a human cleans a table and a robot observing the scene is instructed with the task "Remove the cloth using which I wiped the table". Instruction following with temporal reasoning requires the robot to identify…

Physics-based manipulation in clutter involves complex interaction between multiple objects. In this paper, we consider the problem of learning, from interaction in a physics simulator, manipulation skills to solve this multi-step…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Wissam Bejjani , Mehmet R. Dogar , Matteo Leonetti

Nowadays robots play an increasingly important role in our daily life. In human-centered environments, robots often encounter piles of objects, packed items, or isolated objects. Therefore, a robot must be able to grasp and manipulate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Hamidreza Kasaei , Mohammadreza Kasaei

We propose VISO-Grasp, a novel vision-language-informed system designed to systematically address visibility constraints for grasping in severely occluded environments. By leveraging Foundation Models (FMs) for spatial reasoning and active…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yitian Shi , Di Wen , Guanqi Chen , Edgar Welte , Sheng Liu , Kunyu Peng , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Rania Rayyes

Object manipulation for rearrangement into a specific goal state is a significant task for collaborative robots. Accurately determining object placement is a key challenge, as misalignment can increase task complexity and the risk of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Guanqun Cao , Ryan Mckenna , Erich Graf , John Oyekan

Controlling robots to perform tasks via natural language is one of the most challenging topics in human-robot interaction. In this work, we present a robot system that follows unconstrained language instructions to pick and place arbitrary…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Oier Mees , Wolfram Burgard

Language-guided grasping has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling robots to identify and manipulate target objects through natural language instructions, yet it remains highly challenging in cluttered or occluded scenes. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Rui Tang , Guankun Wang , Long Bai , Huxin Gao , Jiewen Lai , Chi Kit Ng , Jiazheng Wang , Fan Zhang , Hongliang Ren

For robots to understand human instructions and perform meaningful tasks in the near future, it is important to develop learned models that comprehend referential language to identify common objects in real-world 3D scenes. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Junha Roh , Karthik Desingh , Ali Farhadi , Dieter Fox

Target-oriented grasping in unstructured scenes with language control is essential for intelligent robot arm grasping. The ability for the robot arm to understand the human language and execute corresponding grasping actions is a pivotal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xinyu Chen , Jian Yang , Zonghan He , Haobin Yang , Qi Zhao , Yuhui Shi

We study the problem of learning a range of vision-based manipulation tasks from a large offline dataset of robot interaction. In order to accomplish this, humans need easy and effective ways of specifying tasks to the robot. Goal images…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Suraj Nair , Eric Mitchell , Kevin Chen , Brian Ichter , Silvio Savarese , Chelsea Finn

Unlike Object Detection, Visual Grounding task necessitates the detection of an object described by complex free-form language. To simultaneously model such complex semantic and visual representations, recent state-of-the-art studies adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Weitai Kang , Luowei Zhou , Junyi Wu , Changchang Sun , Yan Yan

Dexterous grasping remains a fundamental yet challenging problem in robotics. A general-purpose robot must be capable of grasping diverse objects in arbitrary scenarios. However, existing research typically relies on restrictive…

In this work, we focus on the problem of grounding language by training an agent to follow a set of natural language instructions and navigate to a target object in an environment. The agent receives visual information through raw pixels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Akilesh B , Abhishek Sinha , Mausoom Sarkar , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Inferring the affordance of an object and grasping it in a task-oriented manner is crucial for robots to successfully complete manipulation tasks. Affordance indicates where and how to grasp an object by taking its functionality into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yingbo Tang , Shuaike Zhang , Xiaoshuai Hao , Pengwei Wang , Jianlong Wu , Zhongyuan Wang , Shanghang Zhang