3 papers
cs.RO2026
First Plan Then Evaluate: Multi-Target Planning with Post-Planning Success Evaluation Improves Learning-Based Grasping Pipelines
Martin Matak, Mohanraj Devendran Shanthi, Karl Van Wyk +1
Autonomous multi-finger grasping is a fundamental capability in robotic manipulation. Optimization-based approaches show strong performance, but tend to be sensitive to initializat…
cs.RO2025
Fail2Progress: Learning from Real-World Robot Failures with Stein Variational Inference
Yixuan Huang, Novella Alvina, Mohanraj Devendran Shanthi +1
Skill effect models for long-horizon manipulation tasks are prone to failures in conditions not covered by training data distributions. Therefore, enabling robots to reason about a…
cs.RO2025
DiffDef: A Diffusion Model for Generating Multimodal Goal Shapes From Demonstrations for Deformable Object Manipulation
Bao Thach, Siyeon Kim, Britton Jordan +6
Deformable object manipulation is a key capability in many robotic applications. A promising paradigm for this problem is shape servoing, which aims to control deformable objects t…