Toward robotic manipulation

MT Mason - Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and …, 2018‏ - annualreviews.org
This article surveys manipulation, including both biological and robotic manipulation.
Biology inspires robotics and demonstrates aspects of manipulation that are far in the future …

Let's push things forward: A survey on robot pushing

J Stüber, C Zito, R Stolkin - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
As robots make their way out of factories into human environments, outer space, and
beyond, they require the skill to manipulate their environment in multifarious, unforeseeable …

Sim-to-real transfer of robotic control with dynamics randomization

XB Peng, M Andrychowicz, W Zaremba… - … on robotics and …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Simulations are attractive environments for training agents as they provide an abundant
source of data and alleviate certain safety concerns during the training process. But the …

Visual room rearrangement

L Weihs, M Deitke, A Kembhavi… - Proceedings of the …, 2021‏ - openaccess.thecvf.com
There has been a significant recent progress in the field of Embodied AI with researchers
develo** models and algorithms enabling embodied agents to navigate and interact …

Asymmetric actor critic for image-based robot learning

L Pinto, M Andrychowicz, P Welinder… - ar** for target-driven object manipulation in clutter
A Murali, A Mousavian, C Eppner… - … on Robotics and …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gras** in cluttered environments is a fundamental but challenging robotic skill. It requires
both reasoning about unseen object parts and potential collisions with the manipulator. Most …

Nerf in the palm of your hand: Corrective augmentation for robotics via novel-view synthesis

A Zhou, MJ Kim, L Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - openaccess.thecvf.com
Expert demonstrations are a rich source of supervision for training visual robotic
manipulation policies, but imitation learning methods often require either a large number of …

Chomp: Covariant hamiltonian optimization for motion planning

M Zucker, N Ratliff, AD Dragan… - … journal of robotics …, 2013‏ - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper, we present CHOMP (covariant Hamiltonian optimization for motion planning),
a method for trajectory optimization invariant to reparametrization. CHOMP uses functional …

Combined task and motion planning through an extensible planner-independent interface layer

S Srivastava, E Fang, L Riano, R Chitnis… - … on robotics and …, 2014‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The need for combined task and motion planning in robotics is well understood. Solutions to
this problem have typically relied on special purpose, integrated implementations of task …

Learning task-oriented gras** for tool manipulation from simulated self-supervision

K Fang, Y Zhu, A Garg, A Kurenkov… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2020‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Tool manipulation is vital for facilitating robots to complete challenging task goals. It requires
reasoning about the desired effect of the task and, thus, properly gras** and manipulating …