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Autonomously Untangling Long Cables
Vainavi Viswanath, Kaushik Shivakumar, Justin Kerr +7
Cables are ubiquitous in many settings and it is often useful to untangle them. However, cables are prone to self-occlusions and knots, making them difficult to perceive and manipu…
Efficiently Learning Single-Arm Fling Motions to Smooth Garments
Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Huang Huang, Ellen Novoseller +6
Recent work has shown that 2-arm "fling" motions can be effective for garment smoothing. We consider single-arm fling motions. Unlike 2-arm fling motions, which require little robo…
CenterSnap: Single-Shot Multi-Object 3D Shape Reconstruction and Categorical 6D Pose and Size Estimation
Muhammad Zubair Irshad, Thomas Kollar, Michael Laskey +2
This paper studies the complex task of simultaneous multi-object 3D reconstruction, 6D pose and size estimation from a single-view RGB-D observation. In contrast to instance-level…
Planar Robot Casting with Real2Sim2Real Self-Supervised Learning
Vincent Lim, Huang Huang, Lawrence Yunliang Chen +5
This paper introduces the task of {\em Planar Robot Casting (PRC)}: where one planar motion of a robot arm holding one end of a cable causes the other end to slide across the plane…
SimNet: Enabling Robust Unknown Object Manipulation from Pure Synthetic Data via Stereo
Thomas Kollar, Michael Laskey, Kevin Stone +2
Robot manipulation of unknown objects in unstructured environments is a challenging problem due to the variety of shapes, materials, arrangements and lighting conditions. Even with…
Untangling Dense Non-Planar Knots by Learning Manipulation Features and Recovery Policies
Priya Sundaresan, Jennifer Grannen, Brijen Thananjeyan +7
Robot manipulation for untangling 1D deformable structures such as ropes, cables, and wires is challenging due to their infinite dimensional configuration space, complex dynamics,…