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Grasp detection is an essential task in robotics with various industrial applications. However, traditional methods often struggle with occlusions and do not utilize language for grasping. Incorporating natural language into grasp detection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Tuan Van Vo , Minh Nhat Vu , Baoru Huang , An Vuong , Ngan Le , Thieu Vo , Anh Nguyen

Grasping in cluttered environments is a fundamental but challenging robotic skill. It requires both reasoning about unseen object parts and potential collisions with the manipulator. Most existing data-driven approaches avoid this problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Adithyavairavan Murali , Arsalan Mousavian , Clemens Eppner , Chris Paxton , Dieter Fox

Grasping in cluttered scenes is challenging for robot vision systems, as detection accuracy can be hindered by partial occlusion of objects. We adopt a reinforcement learning (RL) framework and 3D vision architectures to search for feasible…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Xiangyu Chen , Zelin Ye , Jiankai Sun , Yuda Fan , Fang Hu , Chenxi Wang , Cewu Lu

We focus on the task of language-conditioned grasping in clutter, in which a robot is supposed to grasp the target object based on a language instruction. Previous works separately conduct visual grounding to localize the target object, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Kechun Xu , Shuqi Zhao , Zhongxiang Zhou , Zizhang Li , Huaijin Pi , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

Grasping objects with limited or no prior knowledge about them is a highly relevant skill in assistive robotics. Still, in this general setting, it has remained an open problem, especially when it comes to only partial observability and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Matthias Humt , Dominik Winkelbauer , Ulrich Hillenbrand , Berthold Bäuml

Grasping user-specified objects is crucial for robotic assistants; however, most current 6-DoF grasp detection methods are object-agnostic, making it challenging to grasp specific targets from a scene. To achieve that, we present GoalGrasp,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Shun Gui , Kai Gui , Yan Luximon

Grasping unseen objects in unconstrained, cluttered environments is an essential skill for autonomous robotic manipulation. Despite recent progress in full 6-DoF grasp learning, existing approaches often consist of complex sequential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Martin Sundermeyer , Arsalan Mousavian , Rudolph Triebel , Dieter Fox

The existing language-driven grasping methods struggle to fully handle ambiguous instructions containing implicit intents. To tackle this challenge, we propose LangGrasp, a novel language-interactive robotic grasping framework. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yunhan Lin , Wenqi Wu , Zhijie Zhang , Huasong Min

Robotic grasping is a primitive skill for complex tasks and is fundamental to intelligence. For general 6-Dof grasping, most previous methods directly extract scene-level semantic or geometric information, while few of them consider the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Pengwei Xie , Siang Chen , Wei Tang , Dingchang Hu , Wenming Yang , Guijin Wang

Open-vocabulary, task-oriented grasping of specific functional parts, particularly with dual arms, remains a key challenge, as current Vision-Language Models (VLMs), while enhancing task understanding, often struggle with precise grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xueyang Guo , Hongwei Hu , Chengye Song , Jiale Chen , Zilin Zhao , Yu Fu , Bowen Guan , Zhenze Liu

From rearranging objects on a table to putting groceries into shelves, robots must plan precise action points to perform tasks accurately and reliably. In spite of the recent adoption of vision language models (VLMs) to control robot…

Despite significant progress in robotic systems for operation within human-centric environments, existing models still heavily rely on explicit human commands to identify and manipulate specific objects. This limits their effectiveness in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Shiyu Jin , Jinxuan Xu , Yutian Lei , Liangjun Zhang

We consider the task of grasping a target object based on a natural language command query. Previous work primarily focused on localizing the object given the query, which requires a separate grasp detection module to grasp it. The cascaded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yiye Chen , Ruinian Xu , Yunzhi Lin , Patricio A. Vela

Visual navigation in unknown environments based solely on natural language descriptions is a key capability for intelligent robots. In this work, we propose a navigation framework built upon off-the-shelf Visual Language Models (VLMs),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Weifan Zhang , Tingguang Li , Yuzhen Liu

Recognizing and grasping novel-category objects remains a crucial yet challenging problem in real-world robotic applications. Despite its significance, limited research has been conducted in this specific domain. To address this, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Li Meng , Zhao Qi , Lyu Shuchang , Wang Chunlei , Ma Yujing , Cheng Guangliang , Yang Chenguang

Target-oriented grasping in unstructured scenes with language control is essential for intelligent robot arm grasping. The ability for the robot arm to understand the human language and execute corresponding grasping actions is a pivotal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xinyu Chen , Jian Yang , Zonghan He , Haobin Yang , Qi Zhao , Yuhui Shi

In open-vocabulary mobile manipulation (OVMM), task success often hinges on the selection of an appropriate base placement for the robot. Existing approaches typically navigate to proximity-based regions without considering affordances,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Tzu-Jung Lin , Jia-Fong Yeh , Hung-Ting Su , Chung-Yi Lin , Yi-Ting Chen , Winston H. Hsu

Inferring affordable (i.e., graspable) parts of arbitrary objects based on human specifications is essential for robots advancing toward open-vocabulary manipulation. Current grasp planners, however, are hindered by limited vision-language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Teli Ma , Zifan Wang , Jiaming Zhou , Mengmeng Wang , Junwei Liang

For robot manipulation, a complete and accurate object shape is desirable. Here, we present a method that combines visual and haptic reconstruction in a closed-loop pipeline. From an initial viewpoint, the object shape is reconstructed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Lukas Rustler , Jiri Matas , Matej Hoffmann

Robots interacting with humans through natural language can unlock numerous applications such as Referring Grasp Synthesis (RGS). Given a text query, RGS determines a stable grasp pose to manipulate the referred object in the robot's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Vineet Bhat , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Ramesh Karri , Farshad Khorrami