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Grasp is an essential skill for robots to interact with humans and the environment. In this paper, we build a vision-based, robust and real-time robotic grasp approach with fully convolutional neural network. The main component of our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Hanbo Zhang , Xinwen Zhou , Xuguang Lan , Jin Li , Zhiqiang Tian , Nanning Zheng

When performing manipulation-based activities such as picking objects, a mobile robot needs to position its base at a location that supports successful execution. To address this problem, prominent approaches typically rely on costly grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Manish Saini , Melvin Paul Jacob , Minh Nguyen , Nico Hochgeschwender

We present Supermarket-6DoF, a real-world dataset of 1500 grasp attempts across 20 supermarket objects with publicly available 3D models. Unlike most existing grasping datasets that rely on analytical metrics or simulation for grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Jason Toskov , Akansel Cosgun

Bayesian optimization (BO) recently became popular in robotics to optimize control parameters and parametric policies in direct reinforcement learning due to its data efficiency and gradient-free approach. However, its performance may be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Noémie Jaquier , Leonel Rozo , Sylvain Calinon , Mathias Bürger

Deformable object manipulation remains a challenging task in robotics research. Conventional techniques for parameter inference and state estimation typically rely on a precise definition of the state space and its dynamics. While this is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Rika Antonova , Jingyun Yang , Priya Sundaresan , Dieter Fox , Fabio Ramos , Jeannette Bohg

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

Grasping unseen objects in unconstrained, cluttered environments is an essential skill for autonomous robotic manipulation. Despite recent progress in full 6-DoF grasp learning, existing approaches often consist of complex sequential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Martin Sundermeyer , Arsalan Mousavian , Rudolph Triebel , Dieter Fox

Dexterous grasping of unseen objects in dynamic environments is an essential prerequisite for the advanced manipulation of autonomous robots. Prior advances rely on several assumptions that simplify the setup, including environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yannick Burkhardt , Qian Feng , Jianxiang Feng , Karan Sharma , Zhaopeng Chen , Alois Knoll

We present a new dataset for 6-DoF pose estimation of known objects, with a focus on robotic manipulation research. We propose a set of toy grocery objects, whose physical instantiations are readily available for purchase and are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Stephen Tyree , Jonathan Tremblay , Thang To , Jia Cheng , Terry Mosier , Jeffrey Smith , Stan Birchfield

As the basis for prehensile manipulation, it is vital to enable robots to grasp as robustly as humans. Our innate grasping system is prompt, accurate, flexible, and continuous across spatial and temporal domains. Few existing methods cover…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Hao-Shu Fang , Chenxi Wang , Hongjie Fang , Minghao Gou , Jirong Liu , Hengxu Yan , Wenhai Liu , Yichen Xie , Cewu Lu

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

Humans coordinate the abundant degrees of freedom (DoFs) of hands to dexterously perform tasks in everyday life. We imitate human strategies to advance the dexterity of multi-DoF robotic hands. Specifically, we enable a robot hand to grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Kunpeng Yao , Aude Billard

We consider the problem of robotic grasping using depth + RGB information sampling from a real sensor. we design an encoder-decoder neural network to predict grasp policy in real time. This method can fuse the advantage of depth image and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Song Yaoxian , Cheng Chun , Fei Yuejiao , Li Xiangqing , Yu Changbin

6D pose recognition has been a crucial factor in the success of robotic grasping, and recent deep learning based approaches have achieved remarkable results on benchmarks. However, their generalization capabilities in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Hongpeng Cao , Lukas Dirnberger , Daniele Bernardini , Cristina Piazza , Marco Caccamo

Robotic grasping traditionally relies on object features or shape information for learning new or applying already learned grasps. We argue however that such a strong reliance on object geometric information renders grasping and grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Philipp Zech , Justus Piater

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

Achieving generalizable and precise robotic manipulation across diverse environments remains a critical challenge, largely due to limitations in spatial perception. While prior imitation-learning approaches have made progress, their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yiqi Huang , Travis Davies , Jiahuan Yan , Jiankai Sun , Xiang Chen , Luhui Hu

Localizing and tracking the pose of robotic grippers are necessary skills for manipulation tasks. However, the manipulators with imprecise kinematic models (e.g. low-cost arms) or manipulators with unknown world coordinates (e.g. poor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Tarik Kelestemur , Colin Keil , John P. Whitney , Robert Platt , Taskin Padir

Grasping has been a long-standing challenge in facilitating the final interface between a robot and the environment. As environments and tasks become complicated, the need to embed higher intelligence to infer from the surroundings and act…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Navin Sriram Ravie , Keerthi Vasan M , Asokan Thondiyath , Bijo Sebastian

Grasping is among the most fundamental and long-lasting problems in robotics study. This paper studies the problem of 6-DoF(degree of freedom) grasping by a parallel gripper in a cluttered scene captured using a commodity depth sensor from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Yuzhe Qin , Rui Chen , Hao Zhu , Meng Song , Jing Xu , Hao Su