GPT-Fabric: Folding and Smoothing Fabric by Leveraging Pre-Trained Foundation Models

V Raval, E Zhao, H Zhang, S Nikolaidis… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Fabric manipulation has applications in folding blankets, handling patient clothing, and
protecting items with covers. It is challenging for robots to perform fabric manipulation since …

Learning fabric manipulation in the real world with human videos

R Lee, J Abou-Chakra, F Zhang, P Corke - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Fabric manipulation is a long-standing challenge in robotics due to the enormous state
space and complex dynamics. Learning approaches stand out as promising for this domain …

Learning-based fabric folding and box wrapping

X Wang, J Zhao, X Jiang, YH Liu - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Manipulation of deformable objects is an essential task in surgery, the textile industry, and
household tasks, such as washing, hanging, and folding clothes. However, current studies …

Flingbot: The unreasonable effectiveness of dynamic manipulation for cloth unfolding

H Ha, S Song - Conference on Robot Learning, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
High-velocity dynamic actions (eg, fling or throw) play a crucial role in our everyday
interaction with deformable objects by improving our efficiency and effectively expanding our …

Learning dense visual correspondences in simulation to smooth and fold real fabrics

A Ganapathi, P Sundaresan… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic fabric manipulation is challenging due to the infinite dimensional configuration
space, self-occlusion, and complex dynamics of fabrics. There has been significant prior …

Visuospatial foresight for multi-step, multi-task fabric manipulation

R Hoque, D Seita, A Balakrishna, A Ganapathi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Robotic fabric manipulation has applications in home robotics, textiles, senior care and
surgery. Existing fabric manipulation techniques, however, are designed for specific tasks …

DeFNet: Deconstructed Strategy for Multi-step Fabric Folding Tasks

N Gu, R He, L Yu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.00323, 2023 - arxiv.org
Fabric folding through robots is complex and challenging due to the deformability of fabric.
Based on deconstruction strategy, we split the complex fabric folding task into three …

FabricFolding: learning efficient fabric folding without expert demonstrations

C He, L Meng, Z Sun, J Wang, MQH Meng - Robotica, 2024 - cambridge.org
Autonomous fabric manipulation is a challenging task due to complex dynamics and
potential self-occlusion during fabric handling. An intuitive method of fabric-folding …

Video dataset of human demonstrations of folding clothing for robotic folding

A Verleysen, M Biondina… - The International Journal …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
General-purpose clothes-folding robots do not yet exist owing to the deformable nature of
textiles, making it hard to engineer manipulation pipelines or learn this task. In order to …

Learning arbitrary-goal fabric folding with one hour of real robot experience

R Lee, D Ward, V Dasagi, A Cosgun… - … on Robot Learning, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Manipulating deformable objects, such as fabric, is a long standing problem in robotics, with
state estimation and control posing a significant challenge for traditional methods. In this …