Robot tool use: A survey

M Qin, J Brawer, B Scassellati - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Using human tools can significantly benefit robots in many application domains. Such ability
would allow robots to solve problems that they were unable to without tools. However, robot …

Toward general-purpose robots via foundation models: A survey and meta-analysis

Y Hu, Q ** in clutter from simulation
B Wen, W Lian, K Bekris… - … Conference on Robotics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Task-relevant gras** is critical for industrial assembly, where downstream manipulation
tasks constrain the set of valid grasps. Learning how to perform this task, however, is …

Understanding physical effects for effective tool-use

Z Zhang, Z Jiao, W Wang, Y Zhu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a robot learning and planning framework that produces an effective tool-use
strategy with the least joint efforts, capable of handling objects different from training …

Deep visual constraints: Neural implicit models for manipulation planning from visual input

JS Ha, D Driess, M Toussaint - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Manipulation planning is the problem of finding a sequence of robot configurations that
involves interactions with objects in the scene, eg, gras** and placing an object, or more …

Towards learning geometric eigen-lengths crucial for fitting tasks

Y Weng, K Mo, R Shi, Y Yang, LJ Guibas - arxiv preprint arxiv:2312.15610, 2023 - arxiv.org
Some extremely low-dimensional yet crucial geometric eigen-lengths often determine the
success of some geometric tasks. For example, the height of an object is important to …