Unfolding the literature: A review of robotic cloth manipulation

A Longhini, Y Wang, I Garcia-Camacho… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The realm of textiles spans clothing, households, healthcare, sports, and industrial
applications. The deformable nature of these objects poses unique challenges that prior …

Robotic perception of transparent objects: A review

J Jiang, G Cao, J Deng, TT Do… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transparent object perception is a rapidly develo** research problem in artificial
intelligence. The ability to perceive transparent objects enables robots to achieve higher …

Robocook: Long-horizon elasto-plastic object manipulation with diverse tools

H Shi, H Xu, S Clarke, Y Li, J Wu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2306.14447, 2023 - arxiv.org
Humans excel in complex long-horizon soft body manipulation tasks via flexible tool use:
bread baking requires a knife to slice the dough and a rolling pin to flatten it. Often regarded …

Toolflownet: Robotic manipulation with tools via predicting tool flow from point clouds

D Seita, Y Wang, SJ Shetty, EY Li… - … on Robot Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Point clouds are a widely available and canonical data modality which convey the 3D
geometry of a scene. Despite significant progress in classification and segmentation from …

Speedfolding: Learning efficient bimanual folding of garments

Y Avigal, L Berscheid, T Asfour… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Folding garments reliably and efficiently is a long standing challenge in robotic manipulation
due to the complex dynamics and high dimensional configuration space of garments. An …

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 …

Enhancing Deformable Object Manipulation By Using Interactive Perception and Assistive Tools

P Zhou - arxiv preprint arxiv:2311.09659, 2023 - arxiv.org
In the field of robotic manipulation, the proficiency of deformable object manipulation lags
behind human capabilities due to the inherent characteristics of deformable objects. These …

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 …

Shape control of deformable linear objects with offline and online learning of local linear deformation models

M Yu, H Zhong, X Li - 2022 International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The shape control of deformable linear objects (DLOs) is challenging, since it is difficult to
obtain the deformation models. Previous studies often approximate the models in purely …

Clothesnet: An information-rich 3d garment model repository with simulated clothes environment

B Zhou, H Zhou, T Liang, Q Yu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present ClothesNet: a large-scale dataset of 3D clothes objects with information-rich
annotations. Our dataset consists of around 4000 models covering 11 categories annotated …