Modeling, learning, perception, and control methods for deformable object manipulation

H Yin, A Varava, D Kragic - Science Robotics, 2021 - science.org
Perceiving and handling deformable objects is an integral part of everyday life for humans.
Automating tasks such as food handling, garment sorting, or assistive dressing requires …

Robotic manipulation and sensing of deformable objects in domestic and industrial applications: a survey

J Sanchez, JA Corrales… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
We present a survey of recent work on robot manipulation and sensing of deformable
objects, a field with relevant applications in diverse industries such as medicine (eg surgical …

Fabricflownet: Bimanual cloth manipulation with a flow-based policy

T Weng, SM Bajracharya, Y Wang… - … on Robot Learning, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
We address the problem of goal-directed cloth manipulation, a challenging task due to the
deformability of cloth. Our insight is that optical flow, a technique normally used for motion …

Learning arbitrary-goal fabric folding with one hour of real robot experience

R Lee, D Ward, V Dasagi, A Cosgun… - … on Robot Learning, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Manipulating deformable objects, such as fabric, is a long standing problem in robotics, with
state estimation and control posing a significant challenge for traditional methods. In this …

Folding clothes autonomously: A complete pipeline

A Doumanoglou, J Stria, G Peleka… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a complete pipeline for folding a pile of clothes using a dual-armed robot.
This is a challenging task both from the viewpoint of machine vision and robotic …

A comprehensive study of 3-D vision-based robot manipulation

Y Cong, R Chen, B Ma, H Liu, D Hou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robot manipulation, for example, pick-and-place manipulation, is broadly used for intelligent
manufacturing with industrial robots, ocean engineering with underwater robots, service …

Visual grasp point localization, classification and state recognition in robotic manipulation of cloth: An overview

P Jiménez - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
Cloth manipulation by robots is gaining popularity among researchers because of its
relevance, mainly (but not only) in domestic and assistive robotics. The required science and …

Folding deformable objects using predictive simulation and trajectory optimization

Y Li, Y Yue, D Xu, E Grinspun… - 2015 IEEE/RSJ …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic manipulation of deformable objects remains a challenging task. One such task is
folding a garment autonomously. Given start and end folding positions, what is an optimal …

Learning garment manipulation policies toward robot-assisted dressing

F Zhang, Y Demiris - Science robotics, 2022 - science.org
Assistive robots have the potential to support people with disabilities in a variety of activities
of daily living, such as dressing. People who have completely lost their upper limb …

Accurate garment surface analysis using an active stereo robot head with application to dual-arm flattening

L Sun, G Aragon-Camarasa, S Rogers… - … on robotics and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a visually guided, dual-arm, industrial robot system that is capable of
autonomously flattening garments by means of a novel visual perception pipeline that fully …