Recent advances of deep robotic affordance learning: a reinforcement learning perspective

X Yang, Z Ji, J Wu, YK Lai - IEEE Transactions on Cognitive …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a popular concept proposed in the field of psychology, affordance has been regarded as
one of the important abilities that enable humans to understand and interact with the …

You only demonstrate once: Category-level manipulation from single visual demonstration

B Wen, W Lian, K Bekris, S Schaal - arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.12716, 2022 - arxiv.org
Promising results have been achieved recently in category-level manipulation that
generalizes across object instances. Nevertheless, it often requires expensive real-world …

Catgrasp: Learning category-level task-relevant grasping in clutter from simulation

B Wen, W Lian, K Bekris… - … Conference on Robotics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Task-relevant grasping is critical for industrial assembly, where downstream manipulation
tasks constrain the set of valid grasps. Learning how to perform this task, however, is …

Heuristics integrated deep reinforcement learning for online 3d bin packing

S Yang, S Song, S Chu, R Song… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Online 3D Bin Packing Problem (3D-BPP) has a wide range of industrial applications and
there is an emerging research interest in learning optimal bin packing policy and deploying …

Packerbot: Variable-sized product packing with heuristic deep reinforcement learning

Z Yang, S Yang, S Song, W Zhang… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Product packing is a typical application in ware-house automation that aims to pick objects
from unstructured piles and place them into bins with optimized placing policy. However, it …

Learning category-level manipulation tasks from point clouds with dynamic graph CNNs

J Liang, A Boularias - 2023 IEEE International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new technique for learning category-level manipulation from raw RGB-
D videos of task demonstrations, with no manual labels or annotations. Category-level …

A hierarchical framework for quadruped locomotion based on reinforcement learning

W Tan, X Fang, W Zhang, R Song… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quadruped locomotion is a challenging task for learning-based algorithms. It requires
tedious manual tuning and is difficult to deploy in reality due to the reality gap. In this paper …

A Hierarchical Framework for Quadruped Omnidirectional Locomotion Based on Reinforcement Learning

W Tan, X Fang, W Zhang, R Song… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quadruped locomotion is challenging for many learning-based algorithms. This is because it
requires tedious manual tuning to cope with different types of terrains and is difficult to …

Functional grasp transfer across a category of objects from only one labeled instance

R Wu, T Zhu, W Peng, J Hang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To assist or replace human beings in completing various tasks, research on the functional
grasp synthesis of dexterous hands with high degree-of-freedom (DoF) is necessary and …

Learning dense visual descriptors using image augmentations for robot manipulation tasks

C Graf, DB Adrian, J Weil, M Gabriel… - … on Robot Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
We propose a self-supervised training approach for learning view-invariant dense visual
descriptors using image augmentations. Unlike existing works, which often require complex …