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Functional grasp is essential for enabling dexterous multi-finger robot hands to manipulate objects effectively. However, most prior work either focuses on power grasping, which simply involves holding an object still, or relies on costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Hongyi Chen , Yunchao Yao , Yufei Ye , Zhixuan Xu , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Jiashun Wang , Shubham Tulsiani , Zackory Erickson , Jeffrey Ichnowski

Pick-and-place is an important manipulation task in domestic or manufacturing applications. There exist many works focusing on grasp detection with high picking success rate but lacking consideration of downstream manipulation tasks (e.g.,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Jen-Wei Wang , Lingfeng Sun , Xinghao Zhu , Qiyang Qian , Masayoshi Tomizuka

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

Rigid grippers used in existing aerial manipulators require precise positioning to achieve successful grasps and transmit large contact forces that may destabilize the drone. This limits the speed during grasping and prevents "dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Joshua Fishman , Samuel Ubellacker , Nathan Hughes , Luca Carlone

In robotic grasping, objects are often occluded in ungraspable configurations such that no pregrasp pose can be found, eg large flat boxes on the table that can only be grasped from the side. Inspired by humans' bimanual manipulation, eg…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Zhaole Sun , Kai Yuan , Wenbin Hu , Chuanyu Yang , Zhibin Li

Robotic grasping of 3D deformable objects is critical for real-world applications such as food handling and robotic surgery. Unlike rigid and articulated objects, 3D deformable objects have infinite degrees of freedom. Fully defining their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Isabella Huang , Yashraj Narang , Ruzena Bajcsy , Fabio Ramos , Tucker Hermans , Dieter Fox

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

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

Soft robotics is a thriving branch of robotics which takes inspiration from nature and uses affordable flexible materials to design adaptable non-rigid robots. However, their flexible behavior makes these robots hard to model, which is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-15 João Damião Almeida , Paul Schydlo , Atabak Dehban , José Santos-Victor

In our daily life, we often encounter objects that are fragile and can be damaged by excessive grasping force, such as fruits. For these objects, it is paramount to grasp gently -- not using the maximum amount of force possible, but rather…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Ken Nakahara , Roberto Calandra

Robotic grasping presents a difficult motor task in real-world scenarios, constituting a major hurdle to the deployment of capable robots across various industries. Notably, the scarcity of data makes grasping particularly challenging for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Abhi Kamboj , Katherine Driggs-Campbell

The anthropomorphism of grasping process significantly benefits the experience and grasping efficiency of prosthetic hand wearers. Currently, prosthetic hands controlled by signals such as brain-computer interfaces (BCI) and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yansong Xu , Xiaohui Wang , Junlin Li , Xiaoqian Zhang , Feng Li , Qing Gao , Chenglong Fu , Yuquan Leng

Robotic laparoscopic grasper is a surgical tool with minimal invasion. In this robot, achieve goals like precise tracking, stability and disturbance rejection are very important. In this paper, first the stages of modeling and simulating of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 AA. Ghavifekr , MA Badamchizadeh , G Alizadeh , A Arjmandi

Grasping of diverse objects in unstructured environments remains a significant challenge. Open-loop grasping methods, effective in controlled settings, struggle in cluttered environments. Grasp prediction errors and object pose changes…

This paper addresses the multi-faceted problem of robot grasping, where multiple criteria may conflict and differ in importance. We introduce a probabilistic framework, Grasp Ranking and Criteria Evaluation (GRaCE), which employs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Tasbolat Taunyazov , Kelvin Lin , Harold Soh

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

In this paper, we study whether inexpensive, physics-free supervision can reliably prioritize grasp-place candidates for budget-aware pick-and-place. From an object's initial pose, target pose, and a candidate grasp, we generate two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Tianyuan Liu , Richard Dazeley , Benjamin Champion , Akan Cosgun

Given the task of learning robotic grasping solely based on a depth camera input and gripper force feedback, we derive a learning algorithm from an applied point of view to significantly reduce the amount of required training data. Major…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Lars Berscheid , Thomas Rühr , Torsten Kröger

We formulate grasp learning as a neural field and present Neural Grasp Distance Fields (NGDF). Here, the input is a 6D pose of a robot end effector and output is a distance to a continuous manifold of valid grasps for an object. In contrast…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Thomas Weng , David Held , Franziska Meier , Mustafa Mukadam

Reliably planning fingertip grasps for multi-fingered hands lies as a key challenge for many tasks including tool use, insertion, and dexterous in-hand manipulation. This task becomes even more difficult when the robot lacks an accurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Martin Matak , Tucker Hermans