[HTML][HTML] Robot tool use: A survey

M Qin, J Brawer, B Scassellati - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Using human tools can significantly benefit robots in many application domains. Such ability
would allow robots to solve problems that they were unable to without tools. However, robot …

Sim-to-real 6d object pose estimation via iterative self-training for robotic bin picking

K Chen, R Cao, S James, Y Li, YH Liu, P Abbeel… - … on Computer Vision, 2022 - Springer
Abstract 6D object pose estimation is important for robotic bin-picking, and serves as a
prerequisite for many downstream industrial applications. However, it is burdensome to …

MetaGraspNetV2: All-in-one dataset enabling fast and reliable robotic bin picking via object relationship reasoning and dexterous grasping

M Gilles, Y Chen, EZ Zeng, Y Wu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Grasping unknown objects in unstructured environments is one of the most challenging and
demanding tasks for robotic bin picking systems. Developing a holistic approach is crucial to …

Two-stage grasping: A new bin picking framework for small objects

H Cao, J Zhou, J Huang, Y Li, NC Meng… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a novel bin picking framework, two-stage grasping, aiming at precise
grasping of cluttered small objects. Object density estimation and rough grasping are …

Generating synthetic training images to detect split defects in stamped components

AR Singh, T Bashford-Rogers, S Hazra… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Detecting rare and costly defects, such as necks and splits in sheet metal stamping, remains
challenging for deep learning models due to low failure rates entailing few available …

Learning efficient policies for picking entangled wire harnesses: An approach to industrial bin picking

X Zhang, Y Domae, W Wan… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wire harnesses are essential connecting components in manufacturing industry but are
challenging to be automated in industrial tasks such as bin picking. They are long, flexible …

Increasing the Robustness of Deep Learning Models for Object Segmentation: A Framework for Blending Automatically Annotated Real and Synthetic Data

AI Károly, S Tirczka, H Gao, IJ Rudas… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent problems in robotics can sometimes only be tackled using machine learning
technologies, particularly those that utilize deep learning (DL) with transfer learning …

Certifiable Object Pose Estimation: Foundations, Learning Models, and Self-Training

R Talak, LR Peng, L Carlone - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we consider a certifiable object pose estimation problem, where—given a
partial point cloud of an object—the goal is to not only estimate the object pose, but also …

Danet: Density adaptive convolutional network with interactive attention for 3d point clouds

Y He, H Yu, Z Yang, W Sun, M Feng… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Local features and contextual dependencies are crucial for 3D point cloud analysis. Many
works have been devoted to designing better local convolutional kernels that exploit the …

Deep learning based 6-DoF antipodal grasp planning from point cloud in random bin-picking task using single-view

TH Bui, YG Son, SJ Moon, QH Nguyen… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Random bin picking is a crucial task in logistic centers, which is driven by E-Commerce
growth. In this letter, we present an end-to-end method for 6-DoF antipodal grasps from …