Review of reinforcement learning for robotic grasping: Analysis and recommendations

H Sekkat, O Moutik, L Ourabah, B ElKari… - Statistics, Optimization …, 2024 - iapress.org
This review paper provides a comprehensive analysis of over 100 research papers focused
on the challenges of robotic grasping and the effectiveness of various machine learning …

[HTML][HTML] Opportunities and challenges in applying reinforcement learning to robotic manipulation: An industrial case study

T Toner, M Saez, DM Tilbury, K Barton - Manufacturing Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
As moves towards a more agile paradigm, industrial robots are expected to perform more
complex tasks in less structured environments, complicating the use of traditional …

HACMan: Learning hybrid actor-critic maps for 6D non-prehensile manipulation

W Zhou, B Jiang, F Yang, C Paxton, D Held - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Manipulating objects without grasping them is an essential component of human dexterity,
referred to as non-prehensile manipulation. Non-prehensile manipulation may enable more …

Uncertainty-driven exploration strategies for online grasp learning

Y Shi, P Schillinger, M Gabriel… - … on Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing grasp prediction approaches are mostly based on offline learning, while, ignoring
the exploratory grasp learning during online adaptation to new picking scenarios, ie, objects …

HACMan++: Spatially-Grounded Motion Primitives for Manipulation

B Jiang, Y Wu, W Zhou, C Paxton, D Held - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Although end-to-end robot learning has shown some success for robot manipulation, the
learned policies are often not sufficiently robust to variations in object pose or geometry. To …

Hierarchical policy learning for mechanical search

O Zenkri, NA Vien, G Neumann - … International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Retrieving objects from clutters is a complex task, which requires multiple interactions with
the environment until the target object can be extracted. These interactions involve …

An Improved SAC-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Collaborative Pushing and Grasping in Underwater Environments

J Gao, Y Li, Y Chen, Y He, J Guo - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous grasping is a fundamental task for underwater robots, but direct grasping for
tightly stacked objects will lead to collisions and grasp failures, which requires pushing …

PRF: A Program Reuse Framework for Automated Programming by Learning from Existing Robot Programs

T Toner, DM Tilbury, K Barton - Robotics, 2024 - search.proquest.com
This paper explores the problem of automated robot program generation from limited
historical data when neither accurate geometric environmental models nor online vision …

Pseudo-Labeling and Contextual Curriculum Learning for Online Grasp Learning in Robotic Bin Picking

H Le, P Schillinger, M Gabriel, A Qualmann… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The prevailing grasp prediction methods predominantly rely on offline learning, overlooking
the dynamic grasp learning that occurs during real-time adaptation to novel picking …

DMFC-GraspNet: Differentiable Multi-Fingered Robotic Grasp Generation in Cluttered Scenes

P Blättner, J Brand, G Neumann, NA Vien - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Robotic grasping is a fundamental skill required for object manipulation in robotics. Multi-
fingered robotic hands, which mimic the structure of the human hand, can potentially perform …