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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 this paper, we present TeachNet, a novel neural network architecture for intuitive and markerless vision-based teleoperation of dexterous robotic hands. Robot joint angles are directly generated from depth images of the human hand that…

This paper presents a robotic pick-and-place system that is capable of grasping and recognizing both known and novel objects in cluttered environments. The key new feature of the system is that it handles a wide range of object categories…

Humans naturally perform bimanual skills to handle large and heavy objects. To enhance robots' object manipulation capabilities, generating effective bimanual grasp poses is essential. Nevertheless, bimanual grasp synthesis for dexterous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yanming Shao , Chenxi Xiao

Automatic surgical gesture recognition is fundamentally important to enable intelligent cognitive assistance in robotic surgery. With recent advancement in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, rich information including surgical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Yonghao Long , Jie Ying Wu , Bo Lu , Yueming Jin , Mathias Unberath , Yun-Hui Liu , Pheng Ann Heng , Qi Dou

We present a learnable physics-based predictive model that provides accurate motion and force-torque prediction of the robot end effector in contact-rich manipulation. The proposed model extends the state-of-the-art GNN-based simulator…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zongyao Yi , Joachim Hertzberg , Martin Atzmueller

Recent advances in AI have led to significant results in robotic learning, but skills like grasping remain partially solved. Many recent works exploit synthetic grasping datasets to learn to grasp unknown objects. However, those datasets…

Precision grasps with multi-fingered hands are important for precise placement and in-hand manipulation tasks. Searching precision grasps on the object represented by point cloud, is challenging due to the complex object shape,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Yongxiang Fan , Xinghao Zhu , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Multi-embodiment grasping focuses on developing approaches that exhibit generalist behavior across diverse gripper designs. Existing methods often learn the kinematic structure of the robot implicitly and face challenges due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Roman Freiberg , Alexander Qualmann , Ngo Anh Vien , Gerhard Neumann

Functional grasping with dexterous robotic hands is a key capability for enabling tool use and complex manipulation, yet progress has been constrained by two persistent bottlenecks: the scarcity of large-scale datasets and the absence of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Xingyi He , Adhitya Polavaram , Yunhao Cao , Om Deshmukh , Tianrui Wang , Xiaowei Zhou , Kuan Fang

Robotic grasping is one of the most fundamental robotic manipulation tasks and has been the subject of extensive research. However, swiftly teaching a robot to grasp a novel target object in clutter remains challenging. This paper attempts…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yang Yang , Houjian Yu , Xibai Lou , Yuanhao Liu , Changhyun Choi

Robotic grasping is an essential capability, playing a critical role in enabling robots to physically interact with their surroundings. Despite extensive research, challenges remain due to the diverse shapes and properties of target…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yeong Gwang Son , Seunghwan Um , Juyong Hong , Tat Hieu Bui , Hyouk Ryeol Choi

Dexterous in-hand manipulation is an essential skill of production and life. However, the highly stiff and mutable nature of contacts limits real-time contact detection and inference, degrading the performance of model-based methods.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Yongpeng Jiang , Mingrui Yu , Xinghao Zhu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Xiang Li

In this paper, we introduce a new benchmark dataset named IPN Hand with sufficient size, variety, and real-world elements able to train and evaluate deep neural networks. This dataset contains more than 4,000 gesture samples and 800,000 RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Gibran Benitez-Garcia , Jesus Olivares-Mercado , Gabriel Sanchez-Perez , Keiji Yanai

This paper presents a novel object-centric contact representation ContactGen for hand-object interaction. The ContactGen comprises three components: a contact map indicates the contact location, a part map represents the contact hand part,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Shaowei Liu , Yang Zhou , Jimei Yang , Saurabh Gupta , Shenlong Wang

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

Hand detection is essential for many hand related tasks, e.g. parsing hand pose, understanding gesture, which are extremely useful for robotics and human-computer interaction. However, hand detection in uncontrolled environments is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Xiaoming Deng , Ye Yuan , Yinda Zhang , Ping Tan , Liang Chang , Shuo Yang , Hongan Wang

In this paper, we are interested in the problem of generating target grasps by understanding freehand sketches. The sketch is useful for the persons who cannot formulate language and the cases where a textual description is not available on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Haitao Lin , Chilam Cheang , Yanwei Fu , Xiangyang Xue

Semantic grasping is the problem of selecting stable grasps that are functionally suitable for specific object manipulation tasks. In order for robots to effectively perform object manipulation, a broad sense of contexts, including object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Weiyu Liu , Angel Daruna , Sonia Chernova

This paper proposes an interactive system for mobile devices controlled by hand gestures aimed at helping people with visual impairments. This system allows the user to interact with the device by making simple static and dynamic hand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Samer Alashhab , Antonio Javier Gallego , Miguel Ángel Lozano