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We describe a learning-based approach to hand-eye coordination for robotic grasping from monocular images. To learn hand-eye coordination for grasping, we trained a large convolutional neural network to predict the probability that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Sergey Levine , Peter Pastor , Alex Krizhevsky , Deirdre Quillen

Robotic grasp should be carried out in a real-time manner by proper accuracy. Perception is the first and significant step in this procedure. This paper proposes an improved pipeline model trying to detect grasp as a rectangle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hamed Hosseini , Mehdi Tale Masouleh , Ahmad Kalhor

Reliable object grasping is a crucial capability for autonomous robots. However, many existing grasping approaches focus on general clutter removal without explicitly modeling objects and thus only relying on the visible local geometry. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Eugenio Chisari , Nick Heppert , Tim Welschehold , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

Robotic grasping is one of the most fundamental robotic manipulation tasks and has been actively studied. However, how to quickly teach a robot to grasp a novel target object in clutter remains challenging. This paper attempts to tackle the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Yang Yang , Yuanhao Liu , Hengyue Liang , Xibai Lou , Changhyun Choi

In this work, we present a deep reinforcement learning based method to solve the problem of robotic grasping using visio-motor feedback. The use of a deep learning based approach reduces the complexity caused by the use of hand-designed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Shirin Joshi , Sulabh Kumra , Ferat Sahin

Precise robotic grasping is important for many industrial applications, such as assembly and palletizing, where the location of the object needs to be controlled and known. However, achieving precise grasps is challenging due to noise in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Jialiang Zhao , Jacky Liang , Oliver Kroemer

It has always been expected that a robot can be easily deployed to unknown scenarios, accomplishing robotic grasping tasks without human intervention. Nevertheless, existing grasp detection approaches are typically off-body techniques and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jin Liu , Jialong Xie , Leibing Xiao , Chaoqun Wang , Fengyu Zhou

Many possible fields of application of robots in real world settings hinge on the ability of robots to grasp objects. As a result, robot grasping has been an active field of research for many years. With our publication we contribute to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Zohar Feldman , Hanna Ziesche , Ngo Anh Vien , Dotan Di Castro

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

Grasping user-specified objects is crucial for robotic assistants; however, most current 6-DoF grasp detection methods are object-agnostic, making it challenging to grasp specific targets from a scene. To achieve that, we present GoalGrasp,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Shun Gui , Kai Gui , Yan Luximon

Many objects, such as tools and household items, can be used only if grasped in a very specific way - grasped functionally. Often, a direct functional grasp is not possible, though. We propose a method for learning a dexterous pre-grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Dmytro Pavlichenko , Sven Behnke

Task-oriented grasping, which involves grasping specific parts of objects based on their functions, is crucial for developing advanced robotic systems capable of performing complex tasks in dynamic environments. In this paper, we propose a…

Universal grasping with multi-fingered dexterous hands is a fundamental challenge in robotic manipulation. While recent approaches successfully learn closed-loop grasping policies using reinforcement learning (RL), the inherent difficulty…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Haoqi Yuan , Ziye Huang , Ye Wang , Chuan Mao , Chaoyi Xu , Zongqing Lu

Precise robotic grasping of several novel objects is a huge challenge in manufacturing, automation, and logistics. Most of the current methods for model-free grasping are disadvantaged by the sparse data in grasping datasets and by errors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Lei Zhang , Kaixin Bai , Zhaopeng Chen , Yunlei Shi , Jianwei Zhang

Dexterous robotic hands have the capability to interact with a wide variety of household objects to perform tasks like grasping. However, learning robust real world grasping policies for arbitrary objects has proven challenging due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Zoey Qiuyu Chen , Karl Van Wyk , Yu-Wei Chao , Wei Yang , Arsalan Mousavian , Abhishek Gupta , Dieter Fox

Functional grasp is essential for enabling dexterous multi-finger robot hands to manipulate objects effectively. However, most prior work either focuses on power grasping, which simply involves holding an object still, or relies on costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Hongyi Chen , Yunchao Yao , Yufei Ye , Zhixuan Xu , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Jiashun Wang , Shubham Tulsiani , Zackory Erickson , Jeffrey Ichnowski

Imitation learning for robotic grasping is often plagued by the multimodal problem: when a scene contains multiple valid targets, demonstrations of grasping different objects create conflicting training signals. Standard imitation learning…

Learning robust and generalizable manipulation skills from demonstrations remains a key challenge in robotics, with broad applications in industrial automation and service robotics. While recent imitation learning methods have achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yu Ren , Yang Cong , Ronghan Chen , Jiahao Long

Grasp detection in a cluttered environment is still a great challenge for robots. Currently, the Transformer mechanism has been successfully applied to visual tasks, and its excellent ability of global context information extraction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Mingshuai Dong , Xiuli Yu

Recently, equivariant neural network models have been shown to improve sample efficiency for tasks in computer vision and reinforcement learning. This paper explores this idea in the context of on-robot policy learning in which a policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Dian Wang , Mingxi Jia , Xupeng Zhu , Robin Walters , Robert Platt