A review of robot learning for manipulation: Challenges, representations, and algorithms

O Kroemer, S Niekum, G Konidaris - Journal of machine learning research, 2021 - jmlr.org
A key challenge in intelligent robotics is creating robots that are capable of directly
interacting with the world around them to achieve their goals. The last decade has seen …

Task-agnostic self-modeling machines

R Kwiatkowski, H Lipson - Science Robotics, 2019 - science.org
Task-agnostic self-modeling machines | Science Robotics news careers commentary
Journals Science Science brought to you byGoogle Indexer Log in science science …

Where2explore: Few-shot affordance learning for unseen novel categories of articulated objects

C Ning, R Wu, H Lu, K Mo… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Articulated object manipulation is a fundamental yet challenging task in robotics. Due to
significant geometric and semantic variations across object categories, previous …

Learning environment-aware affordance for 3d articulated object manipulation under occlusions

R Wu, K Cheng, Y Zhao, C Ning… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Perceiving and manipulating 3D articulated objects in diverse environments is essential for
home-assistant robots. Recent studies have shown that point-level affordance provides …

Ditto: Building digital twins of articulated objects from interaction

Z Jiang, CC Hsu, Y Zhu - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Digitizing physical objects into the virtual world has the potential to unlock new research and
applications in embodied AI and mixed reality. This work focuses on recreating interactive …

Interactive perception: Leveraging action in perception and perception in action

J Bohg, K Hausman, B Sankaran… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent approaches in robot perception follow the insight that perception is facilitated by
interaction with the environment. These approaches are subsumed under the term …

Carto: Category and joint agnostic reconstruction of articulated objects

N Heppert, MZ Irshad, S Zakharov… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present CARTO, a novel approach for reconstructing multiple articulated objects from a
single stereo RGB observation. We use implicit object-centric representations and learn a …

Vat-mart: Learning visual action trajectory proposals for manipulating 3d articulated objects

R Wu, Y Zhao, K Mo, Z Guo, Y Wang, T Wu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Perceiving and manipulating 3D articulated objects (eg, cabinets, doors) in human
environments is an important yet challenging task for future home-assistant robots. The …

Roboearth

M Waibel, M Beetz, J Civera, R d'Andrea… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Humans can use the Internet to share knowledge and to help each other accomplish
complex tasks. Until now, robots have not taken advantage of this opportunity. Sharing …

Ditto in the house: Building articulation models of indoor scenes through interactive perception

CC Hsu, Z Jiang, Y Zhu - 2023 IEEE International Conference …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Virtualizing the physical world into virtual models has been a critical technique for robot
navigation and planning in the real world. To foster manipulation with articulated objects in …