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Teaching a multi-fingered dexterous robot to grasp objects in the real world has been a challenging problem due to its high dimensional state and action space. We propose a robot-learning system that can take a small number of human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Zoey Qiuyu Chen , Karl Van Wyk , Yu-Wei Chao , Wei Yang , Arsalan Mousavian , Abhishek Gupta , Dieter Fox

Robotic grasping is a crucial task in industrial automation, where robots are increasingly expected to handle a wide range of objects. However, a significant challenge arises when robot grasping models trained on limited datasets encounter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Srinidhi Kalgundi Srinivas , Yash Shukla , Adam Arnold , Sachin Chitta

This paper presents a novel regrasp control policy that makes use of tactile sensing to plan local grasp adjustments. Our approach determines regrasp actions by virtually searching for local transformations of tactile measurements that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Francois R. Hogan , Maria Bauza , Oleguer Canal , Elliott Donlon , Alberto Rodriguez

Robotic grasping aims to detect graspable points and their corresponding gripper configurations in a particular scene, and is fundamental for robot manipulation. Existing research works have demonstrated the potential of using a transformer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Zhenjie Zhao , Hang Yu , Hang Wu , Xuebo Zhang

Grasping in cluttered scenes remains highly challenging for dexterous hands due to the scarcity of data. To address this problem, we present a large-scale synthetic benchmark, encompassing 1319 objects, 8270 scenes, and 427 million grasps.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Jialiang Zhang , Haoran Liu , Danshi Li , Xinqiang Yu , Haoran Geng , Yufei Ding , Jiayi Chen , He Wang

Sim-to-real, a term that describes where a model is trained in a simulator then transferred to the real world, is a technique that enables faster deep reinforcement learning (DRL) training. However, differences between the simulator and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Yeong-Jia Roger Chu , Ting-Han Wei , Jin-Bo Huang , Yuan-Hao Chen , I-Chen Wu

Robotic arm grasping is a fundamental operation in robotic control task goals. Most current methods for robotic grasping focus on RGB-D policy in the table surface scenario or 3D point cloud analysis and inference in the 3D space. Comparing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Yaoxian Song , Jun Wen , Yuejiao Fei , Changbin Yu

To achieve a successful grasp, gripper attributes such as its geometry and kinematics play a role as important as the object geometry. The majority of previous work has focused on developing grasp methods that generalize over novel object…

We want to build robots that are useful in unstructured real world applications, such as doing work in the household. Grasping in particular is an important skill in this domain, yet it remains a challenge. One of the key hurdles is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Ulrich Viereck , Andreas ten Pas , Kate Saenko , Robert Platt

While there exists many methods for manipulating rigid objects with parallel-jaw grippers, grasping with multi-finger robotic hands remains a quite unexplored research topic. Reasoning and planning collision-free trajectories on the…

Objects we interact with and manipulate often share similar parts, such as handles, that allow us to transfer our actions flexibly due to their shared functionality. This work addresses the problem of transferring a grasp experience or a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Ahmet Tekden , Marc Peter Deisenroth , Yasemin Bekiroglu

Robotic grasping is a fundamental yet crucial component of robotic applications, as effective grasping often serves as the starting point for various tasks. With the rapid advancement of neural networks, data-driven approaches for robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Liqi Wu , Haoyu Jia , Kento Kawaharazuka , Hirokazu Ishida , Kei Okada

Grasping skill is a major ability that a wide number of real-life applications require for robotisation. State-of-the-art robotic grasping methods perform prediction of object grasp locations based on deep neural networks. However, such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Amaury Depierre , Emmanuel Dellandréa , Liming Chen

Robotic grasping, the ability of robots to reliably secure and manipulate objects of varying shapes, sizes and orientations, is a complex task that requires precise perception and control. Deep neural networks have shown remarkable success…

Grasping deformable objects is not well researched due to the complexity in modelling and simulating the dynamic behavior of such objects. However, with the rapid development of physics-based simulators that support soft bodies, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Tran Nguyen Le , Jens Lundell , Fares J. Abu-Dakka , Ville Kyrki

Achieving precise and generalizable grasping across diverse objects and environments is essential for intelligent and collaborative robotic systems. However, existing approaches often struggle with ambiguous affordance reasoning and limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ruixiang Wang , Huayi Zhou , Xinyue Yao , Guiliang Liu , Kui Jia

Dexterous grasping is a fundamental yet challenging skill in robotic manipulation, requiring precise interaction between robotic hands and objects. In this paper, we present $\mathcal{D(R,O)}$ Grasp, a novel framework that models the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Zhenyu Wei , Zhixuan Xu , Jingxiang Guo , Yiwen Hou , Chongkai Gao , Zhehao Cai , Jiayu Luo , Lin Shao

Humans can determine a proper strategy to grasp an object according to the measured physical attributes or the prior knowledge of the object. This paper proposes an approach to determining the strategy of dexterous grasping by using an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Bharath Rao , Hui Li , Krishna Krishnan , Enkhsaikhan Boldsaikhan , Hongsheng He

This paper presents a deep learning framework designed to enhance the grasping capabilities of quadrupeds equipped with arms, with a focus on improving precision and adaptability. Our approach centers on a sim-to-real methodology that…

Synthetic data is being used lately for training deep neural networks in computer vision applications such as object detection, object segmentation and 6D object pose estimation. Domain randomization hereby plays an important role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Parth Rawal , Mrunal Sompura , Wolfgang Hintze