Published Paper IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL)

Congratulations to Christian Rauch, Ran Long, Vladimir Ivan and Sethu Vijayakumar

  • Christian Rauch, Ran Long, Vladimir Ivan and Sethu Vijayakumar, Sparse-Dense Motion Modelling and Tracking for Manipulation without Prior Object Models, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), vol. 7(4), pp. 11394-11401 (2022)

 

Abstract 

This work presents an approach for modelling and tracking previously unseen objects for robotic grasping tasks. Using the motion of objects in a scene, our approach segments rigid entities from the scene and continuously tracks them to create a dense and sparse model of the object and the environment. While the dense tracking enables interaction with these models, the sparse tracking makes this robust against fast movements and allows to redetect already modelled objects. The evaluation on a dual-arm grasping task demonstrates that our approach 1) enables a robot to detect new objects online without a prior model and to grasp these objects using only a simple parameterisable geometric representation, and 2) is much more robust compared to the state of the art methods.

 

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