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Robotic grasping requires safe force interaction to prevent a grasped object from being damaged or slipping out of the hand. In this vein, this paper proposes an integrated framework for grasping with formal safety guarantees based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yitaek Kim , Jeeseop Kim , Albert H. Li , Aaron D. Ames , Christoffer Sloth

Tactile sensors provide useful contact data during the interaction with an object which can be used to accurately learn to determine the stability of a grasp. Most of the works in the literature represented tactile readings as plain feature…

This paper proposes a novel learning-free three-stage method that predicts grasping poses, enabling robots to pick up and transfer previously unseen objects. Our method first identifies potential structures that can afford the action of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Wanze Li , Wan Su , Gregory S. Chirikjian

Recent advances have been made in learning of grasps for fully actuated hands. A typical approach learns the target locations of finger links on the object. When a new object must be grasped, new finger locations are generated, and a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Marek Kopicki , Carlos J. Rosales , Hamal Marino , Marco Gabiccini , Jeremy L. Wyatt

Robotic grasp detection is a fundamental capability for intelligent manipulation in unstructured environments. Previous work mainly employed visual and tactile fusion to achieve stable grasp, while, the whole process depending heavily on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Teng Xue , Wenhai Liu , Mingshuo Han , Zhenyu Pan , Jin Ma , Quanquan Shao , Weiming Wang

During the execution of handling processes in manufacturing, it is difficult to measure the process forces with state-of-the-art gripper systems since they usually lack integrated sensors. Thus, the exact state of the gripped object and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 S. Wucherer , R. McMurray , K. Y. Ng , F. Kerber

We propose to learn to generate grasping motion for manipulation with a dexterous hand using implicit functions. With continuous time inputs, the model can generate a continuous and smooth grasping plan. We name the proposed model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jianglong Ye , Jiashun Wang , Binghao Huang , Yuzhe Qin , Xiaolong Wang

How can robots learn dexterous grasping skills efficiently and apply them adaptively based on user instructions? This work tackles two key challenges: efficient skill acquisition from limited human demonstrations and context-driven skill…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Liangzhi Shi , Yulin Liu , Lingqi Zeng , Bo Ai , Zhengdong Hong , Hao Su

Robotic manipulation in industrial scenarios such as construction commonly faces uncertain observations in which the state of the manipulating object may not be accurately captured due to occlusions and partial observables. For example,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Xiao Hu , Yang Ye

Mobile grasping enhances manipulation efficiency by utilizing robots' mobility. This study aims to enable a commercial off-the-shelf robot for mobile grasping, requiring precise timing and pose adjustments. Self-supervised learning can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Takuya Kiyokawa , Eiki Nagata , Yoshihisa Tsurumine , Yuhwan Kwon , Takamitsu Matsubara

Existing grasp controllers usually either only support finger-tip grasps or need explicit configuration of the inner forces. We propose a novel grasp controller that supports arbitrary grasp types, including power grasps with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Dominik Winkelbauer , Rudolph Triebel , Berthold Bäuml

Soft robotic fingers can improve adaptability in grasping and manipulation, compensating for geometric variation in object or environmental contact, but today lack force capacity and fine dexterity. Integrated tactile sensors can provide…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Hun Jang , Joonbum Bae , Kevin Haninger

This article investigates the challenge of achieving functional tool-use grasping with high-DoF anthropomorphic hands, with the aim of enabling anthropomorphic hands to perform tasks that require human-like manipulation and tool-use.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Wei Wei , Peng Wang , Sizhe Wang

Safe yet stable grasping requires a robotic hand to apply sufficient force on the object to immobilize it while keeping it from getting damaged. Soft robotic hands have been proposed for safe grasping due to their passive compliance, but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Tran Nguyen Le , Jens Lundell , Ville Kyrki

Reliable robotic grasping, especially with deformable objects such as fruits, remains a challenging task due to underactuated contact interactions with a gripper, unknown object dynamics and geometries. In this study, we propose a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yunhai Han , Kelin Yu , Rahul Batra , Nathan Boyd , Chaitanya Mehta , Tuo Zhao , Yu She , Seth Hutchinson , Ye Zhao

A challenge in robot grasping is to achieve task-grasping which is to select a grasp that is advantageous to the success of tasks before and after grasps. One of the frameworks to address this difficulty is Learning-from-Observation (LfO),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Daichi Saito , Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Naoki Wake , Jun Takamatsu , Hideki Koike , Katsushi Ikeuchi

Robot simulation has been an essential tool for data-driven manipulation tasks. However, most existing simulation frameworks lack either efficient and accurate models of physical interactions with tactile sensors or realistic tactile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Zilin Si , Zirui Zhu , Arpit Agarwal , Stuart Anderson , Wenzhen Yuan

Dexterous multi-fingered hands can accomplish fine manipulation behaviors that are infeasible with simple robotic grippers. However, sophisticated multi-fingered hands are often expensive and fragile. Low-cost soft hands offer an appealing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Abhishek Gupta , Clemens Eppner , Sergey Levine , Pieter Abbeel

Dense collections of movable objects are common in everyday spaces-from cabinets in a home to shelves in a warehouse. Safely retracting objects from such collections is difficult for robots, yet people do it frequently, leveraging learned…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Dane Brouwer , Joshua Citron , Heather Nolte , Jeannette Bohg , Mark Cutkosky

Stable and robust robotic grasping is essential for current and future robot applications. In recent works, the use of large datasets and supervised learning has enhanced speed and precision in antipodal grasping. However, these methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Boya Zhang , Iris Andrussow , Andreas Zell , Georg Martius