Collision-Aware Target-Driven Object Grasping in Constrained Environments
Lou, Xibai, Yang, Yang, and Choi, Changhyun

Publication: CoRR

Abstract: Grasping a novel target object in constrained environments (e.g., walls, bins, and shelves) requires intensive reasoning about grasp pose reachability to avoid collisions with the surrounding structures. Typical 6-DoF robotic grasping systems rely on the prior knowledge about the environment and intensive planning computation, which is ungeneralizable and inefficient. In contrast, we propose a novel Collision-Aware Reachability Predictor (CARP) for 6-DoF grasping systems. The CARP learns to estimate the collision-free probabilities for grasp poses and significantly improves grasping in challenging environments. The deep neural networks in our approach are trained fully by self-supervision in simulation. The experiments in both simulation and the real world show that our approach achieves more than 75% grasping rate on novel objects in various surrounding structures. The ablation study demonstrates the effectiveness of the CARP, which improves the 6-DoF grasping rate by 95.7%.

Bibtex:

@article{lou2021collisionaware,
  author = {Lou, Xibai and Yang, Yang and Choi, Changhyun},
  title = {Collision-Aware Target-Driven Object Grasping in Constrained Environments},
  journal = {CoRR},
  volume = {abs/2104.00776},
  year = {2021},
  eprinttype = {arXiv},
  eprint = {2104.00776},
  timestamp = {Mon, 12 Apr 2021 16:14:56 +0200},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}