Bundletrack: 6d pose tracking for novel objects without instance or category-level 3d models

B Wen, K Bekris - 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tracking the 6D pose of objects in video sequences is important for robot manipulation. Most
prior efforts, however, often assume that the target object's CAD model, at least at a category …

Unseen object instance segmentation for robotic environments

C **e, Y **ang, A Mousavian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to function in unstructured environments, robots need the ability to recognize
unseen objects. We take a step in this direction by tackling the problem of segmenting …

se (3)-tracknet: Data-driven 6d pose tracking by calibrating image residuals in synthetic domains

B Wen, C Mitash, B Ren… - 2020 IEEE/RSJ …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tracking the 6D pose of objects in video sequences is important for robot manipulation. This
task, however, introduces multiple challenges:(i) robot manipulation involves significant …

Long-horizon manipulation of unknown objects via task and motion planning with estimated affordances

A Curtis, X Fang, LP Kaelbling… - … on Robotics and …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a strategy for designing and building very general robot manipulation systems
using a general-purpose task-and-motion planner with both engineered and learned …

Vision-driven compliant manipulation for reliable, high-precision assembly tasks

AS Morgan, B Wen, J Liang, A Boularias… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021‏ - arxiv.org
Highly constrained manipulation tasks continue to be challenging for autonomous robots as
they require high levels of precision, typically less than 1mm, which is often incompatible …

Robotic replacement for disc cutters in tunnel boring machines

L Du, J Yuan, S Bao, R Guan, W Wan - Automation in Construction, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Disc cutters are representative cutting tools in tunnel boring machines (TBMs). They are
installed at the cutter head of the TBM to disintegrate rocks during tunnel boring. Disc cutters …

Reorientbot: Learning object reorientation for specific-posed placement

K Wada, S James, AJ Davison - 2022 International Conference …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robots need the capability of placing objects in arbitrary, specific poses to rearrange the
world and achieve various valuable tasks. Object reorientation plays a crucial role in this as …

Robotic pick-and-place with uncertain object instance segmentation and shape completion

M Gualtieri, R Platt - IEEE robotics and automation letters, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider robotic pick-and-place of partially visible, novel objects, where goal placements
are non-trivial, eg, tightly packed into a bin. One approach is (a) use object instance …

Rice: Refining instance masks in cluttered environments with graph neural networks

C **e, A Mousavian, Y **ang… - Conference on Robot …, 2022‏ - proceedings.mlr.press
Segmenting unseen object instances in cluttered environments is an important capability
that robots need when functioning in unstructured environments. While previous methods …

[HTML][HTML] Augmented reality-based interface for bimanual robot teleoperation

A García, JE Solanes, A Muñoz, L Gracia, J Tornero - Applied Sciences, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Teleoperation of bimanual robots is being used to carry out complex tasks such as surgeries
in medicine. Despite the technological advances, current interfaces are not natural to the …