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Physically rearranging objects is an important capability for embodied agents. Visual room rearrangement evaluates an agent's ability to rearrange objects in a room to a desired goal based solely on visual input. We propose a simple yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Brandon Trabucco , Gunnar Sigurdsson , Robinson Piramuthu , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

We address the problem of visually guided rearrangement planning with many movable objects, i.e., finding a sequence of actions to move a set of objects from an initial arrangement to a desired one, while relying on visual inputs coming…

We present an online planning framework and a new benchmark dataset for solving multi-object rearrangement problems in partially observable, multi-room environments. Current object rearrangement solutions, primarily based on Reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Rajesh Mangannavar , Alan Fern , Prasad Tadepalli

This paper presents planning algorithms for a robotic manipulator with a fixed base in order to grasp a target object in cluttered environments. We consider a configuration of objects in a confined space with a high density so no…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Changjoo Nam , Jinhwi Lee , Younggil Cho , Jeongho Lee , Dong Hwan Kim , ChangHwan Kim

Rearrangement tasks have been identified as a crucial challenge for intelligent robotic manipulation, but few methods allow for precise construction of unseen structures. We propose a visual foresight model for pick-and-place rearrangement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Hongtao Wu , Jikai Ye , Xin Meng , Chris Paxton , Gregory Chirikjian

Non-prehensile multi-object rearrangement is a robotic task of planning feasible paths and transferring multiple objects to their predefined target poses without grasping. It needs to consider how each object reaches the target and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Fan Bai , Fei Meng , Jianbang Liu , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

We present a method to apply heuristic search algorithms to solve rearrangement planning by pushing problems. In these problems, a robot must push an object through clutter to achieve a goal. To do this, we exploit the fact that contact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Jennifer E. King , Siddhartha S. Srinivasa

We focus on the task of unknown object rearrangement, where a robot is supposed to re-configure the objects into a desired goal configuration specified by an RGB-D image. Recent works explore unknown object rearrangement systems by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Kechun Xu , Zhongxiang Zhou , Jun Wu , Haojian Lu , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

There has been a significant recent progress in the field of Embodied AI with researchers developing models and algorithms enabling embodied agents to navigate and interact within completely unseen environments. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Luca Weihs , Matt Deitke , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Roozbeh Mottaghi

Rearranging objects on a tabletop surface by means of nonprehensile manipulation is a task which requires skillful interaction with the physical world. Usually, this is achieved by precisely modeling physical properties of the objects,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Weihao Yuan , Johannes A. Stork , Danica Kragic , Michael Y. Wang , Kaiyu Hang

We focus on push-based multi-object rearrangement planning using a nonholonomically constrained mobile robot. The simultaneous geometric, kinematic, and physics constraints make this problem especially challenging. Prior work on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Jeeho Ahn , Christoforos Mavrogiannis

We present a planner for large-scale (un)labeled object sorting tasks, which uses two types of manipulation actions: overhead grasping and planar pushing. The grasping action offers completeness guarantee under mild assumptions, and planar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Zherong Pan , Kris Hauser

We present a coordination method for multiple mobile manipulators to sort objects in clutter. We consider the object rearrangement problem in which the objects must be sorted into different groups in a particular order. In clutter, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jeeho Ahn , Seabin Lee , Changjoo Nam

Object rearrangement is a fundamental sub-task in accomplishing a great many physical tasks. As such, effectively executing rearrangement is an important skill for intelligent robots to master. In this study, we conduct the first…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Andy Xu , Kai Gao , Si Wei Feng , Jingjin Yu

Complex manipulation tasks, such as rearrangement planning of numerous objects, are combinatorially hard problems. Existing algorithms either do not scale well or assume a great deal of prior knowledge about the environment, and few offer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Vasileios Vasilopoulos , Yiannis Kantaros , George J. Pappas , Daniel E. Koditschek

Object packing by autonomous robots is an im-portant challenge in warehouses and logistics industry. Most conventional data-driven packing planning approaches focus on regular cuboid packing, which are usually heuristic and limit the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Sichao Huang , Ziwei Wang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Robot manipulation in cluttered environments often requires complex and sequential rearrangement of multiple objects in order to achieve the desired reconfiguration of the target objects. Due to the sophisticated physical interactions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Kejia Ren , Lydia E. Kavraki , Kaiyu Hang

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

Task and Motion Planning combines high-level task sequencing (what to do) with low-level motion planning (how to do it) to generate feasible, collision-free execution plans. However, in many real-world domains, such as automated warehouses,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Elisa Tosello , Arthur Bit-Monnot , Davide Lusuardi , Alessandro Valentini , Andrea Micheli

Efficient tabletop rearrangement planning seeks to find high-quality solutions while minimizing total cost. However, the task is challenging due to object dependencies and limited buffer space for temporary placements. The complexity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jiaming Hu , Jiawei Wang , Henrik I Christensen