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 …

Contour moments based manipulation of composite rigid-deformable objects with finite time model estimation and shape/position control

J Qi, G Ma, J Zhu, P Zhou, Y Lyu… - IEEE/ASME …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The robotic manipulation of composite rigid-deformable objects (ie, those with mixed
nonhomogeneous stiffness properties) is a challenging problem with clear practical …

LaSeSOM: A latent and semantic representation framework for soft object manipulation

P Zhou, J Zhu, S Huo… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft object manipulation has recently gained popularity within the robotics community due to
its potential applications in many economically important areas. Although great progress has …

As-rigid-as-possible shape servoing

M Shetab-Bushehri, M Aranda… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Shape servoing is the problem of controlling the shape of a deformable object via robotic
manipulation, exploiting sensory feedback. In many shape servoing scenarios of practical …

Keypoint-based planar bimanual sha** of deformable linear objects under environmental constraints with hierarchical action framework

S Huo, A Duan, C Li, P Zhou, W Ma… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter addresses the problem of contact-based manipulation of deformable linear
objects (DLOs) towards desired shapes with a dual-arm robotic system. To alleviate the …

Lageo: a latent and geometrical framework for path and manipulation planning

P Zhou - 2022 - theses.lib.polyu.edu.hk
Path and manipulation planning has been gaining popularity within the robotics community
all the time due to its potential applications in many economically important applications. In …

Towards latent space based manipulation of elastic rods using autoencoder models and robust centerline extractions

J Qi, G Ma, P Zhou, H Zhang, Y Lyu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The automatic shape control of deformable objects is a challenging (and currently hot)
manipulation problem due to their high-dimensional geometric features and complex …

Robotic co-manipulation of deformable linear objects for large deformation tasks

K Almaghout, A Cherubini, A Klimchik - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2024 - Elsevier
This research addresses the challenge of large/complex deformation in the shape control
tasks of Deformable Linear Objects (DLO). We propose a collaborative approach using two …