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Accurate grasping is the key to several robotic tasks including assembly and household robotics. Executing a successful grasp in a cluttered environment requires multiple levels of scene understanding: First, the robot needs to analyze the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-13 René Zurbrügg , Yifan Liu , Francis Engelmann , Suryansh Kumar , Marco Hutter , Vaishakh Patil , Fisher Yu

Conventional robot programming methods are complex and time-consuming for users. In recent years, alternative approaches such as mixed reality have been explored to address these challenges and optimize robot programming. While the findings…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Maximilian Rettinger , Leander Hacker , Philipp Wolters , Gerhard Rigoll

Humans, this species expert in grasp detection, can grasp objects by taking into account hand-object positioning information. This work proposes a method to enable a robot manipulator to learn the same, grasping objects in the most optimal…

A robust grip is key to successful manipulation and joining of work pieces involved in any industrial assembly process. Stability of a grip depends on geometric and physical properties of the object as well as the gripper itself. Current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Stefanie Wucherer , Robert McMurray , Kok Yew Ng , Florian Kerber

As the basis for prehensile manipulation, it is vital to enable robots to grasp as robustly as humans. Our innate grasping system is prompt, accurate, flexible, and continuous across spatial and temporal domains. Few existing methods cover…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Hao-Shu Fang , Chenxi Wang , Hongjie Fang , Minghao Gou , Jirong Liu , Hengxu Yan , Wenhai Liu , Yichen Xie , Cewu Lu

Grasp planning is an important task for robotic manipulation. Though it is a richly studied area, a standalone, fast, and differentiable grasp planner that can work with robot grippers of different DOFs has not been reported. In this work,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Wenqiang Xu , Jieyi Zhang , Tutian Tang , Zhenjun Yu , Yutong Li , Cewu Lu

Grasping is an essential capability for most robots in practical applications. Soft robotic grippers are considered as a critical part of robotic grasping and have attracted considerable attention in terms of the advantages of the high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Huixu Dong , Chao-Yu Chen , Chen Qiu , Chen-Hua Yeow , Haoyong Yu

A representation gap exists between grasp synthesis for rigid and soft grippers. Anygrasp [1] and many other grasp synthesis methods are designed for rigid parallel grippers, and adapting them to soft grippers often fails to capture their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Tanisha Parulekar , Ge Shi , Josh Pinskier , David Howard , Jen Jen Chung

Advancing robotic grasping and manipulation requires the ability to test algorithms and/or train learning models on large numbers of grasps. Towards the goal of more advanced grasping, we present the Grasp Reset Mechanism (GRM), a fully…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Kyle DuFrene , Keegan Nave , Joshua Campbell , Ravi Balasubramanian , Cindy Grimm

Perception-for-grasping is a challenging problem in robotics. Inexpensive range sensors such as the Microsoft Kinect provide sensing capabilities that have given new life to the effort of developing robust and accurate perception methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Andreas ten Pas , Robert Platt

Robotic manipulation in dynamic environments often requires seamless transitions between different grasp types to maintain stability and efficiency. However, achieving smooth and adaptive grasp transitions remains a challenge, particularly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Kuanqi Cai , Chunfeng Wang , Zeqi Li , Haowen Yao , Weinan Chen , Luis Figueredo , Aude Billard , Arash Ajoudani

Real-world robotic systems frequently require diverse end-effectors for different tasks, however most existing grasp detection methods are optimized for a single gripper type, demanding retraining or optimization for each novel gripper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yeonseo Lee , Jungwook Mun , Hyosup Shin , Guebin Hwang , Junhee Nam , Taeyeop Lee , Sungho Jo

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

This paper presents a comprehensive survey on vision-based robotic grasping. We conclude three key tasks during vision-based robotic grasping, which are object localization, object pose estimation and grasp estimation. In detail, the object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Guoguang Du , Kai Wang , Shiguo Lian , Kaiyong Zhao

This paper looks into the problem of grasping unknown objects in a cluttered environment using 3D point cloud data obtained from a range or an RGBD sensor. The objective is to identify graspable regions and detect suitable grasp poses from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Olyvia Kundu , Swagat Kumar

We present an end-to-end algorithm for training deep neural networks to grasp novel objects. Our algorithm builds all the essential components of a grasping system using a forward-backward automatic differentiation approach, including the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Min Liu , Zherong Pan , Kai Xu , Kanishka Ganguly , Dinesh Manocha

This paper introduces a novel robotic gripper, named as the SPD gripper. It features a palm and two mechanically identical and symmetrically arranged fingers, which can be driven independently or by a single motor. The fingertips of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Haokai Ding , Wenzeng Zhang

Grasp detection with consideration of the affiliations between grasps and their owner in object overlapping scenes is a necessary and challenging task for the practical use of the robotic grasping approach. In this paper, a robotic grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Hanbo Zhang , Xuguang Lan , Site Bai , Xinwen Zhou , Zhiqiang Tian , Nanning Zheng

Rearranging densely packed tabletop objects is challenging when parallel-gripper picks are infeasible without sufficient clearance around an object. This work studies the problem characteristics for practically motivated settings with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hao Lu , Rahul Shome

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