Challenges and outlook in robotic manipulation of deformable objects

J Zhu, A Cherubini, C Dune… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deformable object manipulation (DOM) is an emerging research problem in robotics. The
ability to manipulate deformable objects endows robots with higher autonomy and promises …

Global model learning for large deformation control of elastic deformable linear objects: An efficient and adaptive approach

M Yu, K Lv, H Zhong, S Song… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The robotic manipulation of deformable linear objects (DLOs) has broad application
prospects in many fields. However, a key issue is to obtain the exact deformation models (ie …

Offline-online learning of deformation model for cable manipulation with graph neural networks

C Wang, Y Zhang, X Zhang, Z Wu, X Zhu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Manipulating deformable linear objects by robots has a wide range of applications, eg,
manufacturing and medical surgery. To complete such tasks, an accurate dynamics model …

Model-based control with sparse neural dynamics

Z Liu, G Zhou, J He, T Marcucci… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Learning predictive models from observations using deep neural networks (DNNs) is a
promising new approach to many real-world planning and control problems. However …

Planning with spatial-temporal abstraction from point clouds for deformable object manipulation

X Lin, C Qi, Y Zhang, Z Huang, K Fragkiadaki… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Effective planning of long-horizon deformable object manipulation requires suitable
abstractions at both the spatial and temporal levels. Previous methods typically either focus …

DiffVL: scaling up soft body manipulation using vision-language driven differentiable physics

Z Huang, F Chen, Y Pu, C Lin… - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Combining gradient-based trajectory optimization with differentiable physics simulation is an
efficient technique for solving soft-body manipulation problems. Using a well-crafted …

Dynamic-resolution model learning for object pile manipulation

Y Wang, Y Li, K Driggs-Campbell, L Fei-Fei… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Dynamics models learned from visual observations have shown to be effective in various
robotic manipulation tasks. One of the key questions for learning such dynamics models is …

A mixed-reality tele-operation method for high-level control of a legged-manipulator robot

C Cruz Ulloa, D Domínguez, J Del Cerro, A Barrientos - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, legged (quadruped) robots have been subject of technological study and
continuous development. These robots have a leading role in applications that require high …

Action-conditional implicit visual dynamics for deformable object manipulation

B Shen, Z Jiang, C Choy, S Savarese… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Manipulating volumetric deformable objects in the real world, like plush toys and pizza
dough, brings substantial challenges due to infinite shape variations, non-rigid motions, and …

A Survey on Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects: Recent Advances, Open Challenges and New Frontiers

F Gu, Y Zhou, Z Wang, S Jiang, B He - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.10419, 2023 - arxiv.org
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 …