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most citedMechanical Search: Multi-Step Retrieval of a Target Object Occluded by Clutter

108 citations · 150 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.RO2020★ 2 cited

Mechanical Search on Shelves using Lateral Access X-RAY

Huang Huang, Marcus Dominguez-Kuhne, Jeffrey Ichnowski +7

Efficiently finding an occluded object with lateral access arises in many contexts such as warehouses, retail, healthcare, shipping, and homes. We introduce LAX-RAY (Lateral Access…

cs.RO2020★ 11 cited

Exploratory Grasping: Asymptotically Optimal Algorithms for Grasping Challenging Polyhedral Objects

Michael Danielczuk, Ashwin Balakrishna, Daniel S. Brown +2

There has been significant recent work on data-driven algorithms for learning general-purpose grasping policies. However, these policies can consistently fail to grasp challenging…

cs.RO2020

Accelerating Grasp Exploration by Leveraging Learned Priors

Han Yu Li, Michael Danielczuk, Ashwin Balakrishna +2

The ability of robots to grasp novel objects has industry applications in e-commerce order fulfillment and home service. Data-driven grasping policies have achieved success in lear…

cs.RO2020

Object Rearrangement Using Learned Implicit Collision Functions

Michael Danielczuk, Arsalan Mousavian, Clemens Eppner +1

Robotic object rearrangement combines the skills of picking and placing objects. When object models are unavailable, typical collision-checking models may be unable to predict coll…

cs.RO2020★ 1 cited

Non-Markov Policies to Reduce Sequential Failures in Robot Bin Picking

Kate Sanders, Michael Danielczuk, Jeffrey Mahler +2

A new generation of automated bin picking systems using deep learning is evolving to support increasing demand for e-commerce. To accommodate a wide variety of products, many autom…

cs.RO2020★ 14 cited

X-Ray: Mechanical Search for an Occluded Object by Minimizing Support of Learned Occupancy Distributions

Michael Danielczuk, Anelia Angelova, Vincent Vanhoucke +1

For applications in e-commerce, warehouses, healthcare, and home service, robots are often required to search through heaps of objects to grasp a specific target object. For mechan…