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Manipulating three-dimensional (3D) deformable objects presents significant challenges for robotic systems due to their infinite-dimensional state space and complex deformable dynamics. This paper proposes a novel model-free approach for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Ning Han , Gu Gong , Bin Zhang , Yuexuan Xu , Bohan Yang , Yunhui Liu , David Navarro-Alarcon

Intelligent robots must be able to perform safe and efficient motion planning in their environments. Central to modern motion planning is the configuration space. Configuration spaces define the set of configurations of a robot that result…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Christopher Benka , Judah Goldfeder , Carl Gross , Riya Gupta , Hod Lipson

This paper presents an interconnected control-planning strategy for redundant manipulators, subject to system and environmental constraints. The method incorporates low-level control characteristics and high-level planning components into a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Corina Barbalata , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

The automatic shape control of deformable objects is a challenging (and currently hot) manipulation problem due to their high-dimensional geometric features and complex physical properties. In this study, a new methodology to manipulate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Jiaming Qi , Guangfu Ma , Peng Zhou , Haibo Zhang , Yueyong Lyu , David Navarro-Alarcon

Current autonomous vehicles operate primarily within limited regions, but there is increasing demand for broader applications. However, as models scale, their limited capacity becomes a significant challenge for adapting to novel scenarios.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Nanshan Deng , Weitao Zhou , Bo Zhang , Junze Wen , Kun Jiang , Zhong Cao , Diange Yang

Morphing quadrotors with four external actuators can adapt to different restricted scenarios by changing their geometric structure. However, previous works mainly focus on the improvements in structures and controllers, and existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Guiyang Cui , Ruihao Xia , Xin Jin , Yang Tang

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promising results in the motion planning of manipulators. However, no method guarantees the safety of highly dynamic obstacles, such as humans, in RL-based manipulator control. This lack of formal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Jakob Thumm , Matthias Althoff

Robotic manipulation of deformable 1D objects such as ropes, cables, and hoses is challenging due to the lack of high-fidelity analytic models and large configuration spaces. Furthermore, learning end-to-end manipulation policies directly…

This paper addresses the problem of pushing manipulation with nonholonomic mobile robots. Pushing is a fundamental skill that enables robots to move unwieldy objects that cannot be grasped. We propose a stable pushing method that maintains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yujie Tang , Hai Zhu , Susan Potters , Martijn Wisse , Wei Pan

Desktop organization remains challenging for service robots because of heterogeneous objects and diverse manipulation objectives, such as collection and stacking. In this article, a task-oriented framework is presented for organizing planar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yi Dong , Yangjun Liu , Jinjun Duan , Yang Li , Zhendong Dai

Human-robot cooperation is essential in environments such as warehouses and retail stores, where workers frequently handle deformable objects like paper, bags, and fabrics. Coordinating robotic actions with human assistance remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Rewida Ali , Cristian C. Beltran-Hernandez , Weiwei Wan , Kensuke Harada

Sorting cells based on their mechanical properties is essential for applications in disease diagnostics, cell therapy, and biomedical research. Deterministic Lateral Displacement (DLD) devices provide a label-free method for achieving such…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-08 Khayrul Islam , Mehedi Hasan , Yaling Liu

Deformable object manipulation (DOM) for robots has a wide range of applications in various fields such as industrial, service and health care sectors. However, compared to manipulation of rigid objects, DOM poses significant challenges for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Feida Gu , Yanmin Zhou , Zhipeng Wang , Shuo Jiang , Bin He

Rearranging and manipulating deformable objects such as cables, fabrics, and bags is a long-standing challenge in robotic manipulation. The complex dynamics and high-dimensional configuration spaces of deformables, compared to rigid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Daniel Seita , Pete Florence , Jonathan Tompson , Erwin Coumans , Vikas Sindhwani , Ken Goldberg , Andy Zeng

Robotic manipulation of deformable materials is a challenging task that often requires realtime visual feedback. This is especially true for deformable linear objects (DLOs) or "rods", whose slender and flexible structures make proper…

This paper focuses on the emerging paradigm shift of collision-inclusive motion planning and control for impact-resilient mobile robots, and develops a unified hierarchical framework for navigation in unknown and partially-observable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Zhouyu Lu , Zhichao Liu , Merrick Campbell , Konstantinos Karydis

An effective method for optimizing path planning for a specific model of a 6-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) robot manipulator is presented as part of the motion planning of the manipulator using computer algebra. We assume that we are given a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Takumu Okazaki , Akira Terui , Masahiko Mikawa

Deploying robots in open-ended unstructured environments such as homes has been a long-standing research problem. However, robots are often studied only in closed-off lab settings, and prior mobile manipulation work is restricted to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Haoyu Xiong , Russell Mendonca , Kenneth Shaw , Deepak Pathak

This work proposes a kinodynamic motion planning technique for collaborative object transportation by multiple mobile manipulators in dynamic environments. A global path planner computes a linear piecewise path from start to goal. A novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Keshab Patra , Arpita Sinha , Anirban Guha

Recently, many reactive trajectory planning approaches were suggested in the literature because of their inherent immediate adaption in the ever more demanding cluttered and unpredictable environments of robotic systems. However, typically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Marvin Becker , Johannes Köhler , Sami Haddadin , Matthias A. Müller