UniGrasp: Learning a Unified Model to Grasp With Multifingered Robotic Hands
Shao, Lin, Ferreira, Fabio, Jorda, Mikael, Nambiar, Varun, Luo, Jianlan, Solowjow, Eugen, Ojea, Juan Aparicio, Khatib, Oussama, and Bohg, Jeannette

Publication: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Abstract: To achieve a successful grasp, gripper attributes such as its geometry and kinematics play a role as important as the object geometry. The majority of previous work has focused on developing grasp methods that generalize over novel object geometry but are specific to a certain robot hand. We propose UniGrasp, an efficient data-driven grasp synthesis method that considers both the object geometry and gripper attributes as inputs. UniGrasp is based on a novel deep neural network architecture that selects sets of contact points from the input point cloud of the object. The proposed model is trained on a large dataset to produce contact points that are in force closure and reachable by the robot hand. By using contact points as output, we can transfer between a diverse set of multifingered robotic hands. Our model produces over 90% valid contact points in Top10 predictions in simulation and more than 90% successful grasps in real world experiments for various known two-fingered and three-fingered grippers. Our model also achieves 93%, 83% and 90% successful grasps in real world experiments for an unseen two-fingered gripper and two unseen multi-fingered anthropomorphic robotic hands.

Bibtex:

@article{shao2020unigrasp,
  title = {UniGrasp: Learning a Unified Model to Grasp With Multifingered Robotic Hands},
  author = {Shao, Lin and Ferreira, Fabio and Jorda, Mikael and Nambiar, Varun and Luo, Jianlan and Solowjow, Eugen and Ojea, Juan Aparicio and Khatib, Oussama and Bohg, Jeannette},
  journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
  volume = {5},
  number = {2},
  pages = {2286--2293},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/LRA.2020.2969946}
}