Visual affordance and function understanding: A survey

M Hassanin, S Khan, M Tahtali - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2021 - dl.acm.org
Nowadays, robots are dominating the manufacturing, entertainment, and healthcare
industries. Robot vision aims to equip robots with the capabilities to discover information …

Algorithms and systems for manipulating multiple objects

Z Pan, A Zeng, Y Li, J Yu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robot manipulation of multiple objects is an important topic for applications including
warehouse automation, service robots performing cleaning, and large-scale object sorting …

Integrated task and motion planning in belief space

LP Kaelbling, T Lozano-Pérez - The International Journal of …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
We describe an integrated strategy for planning, perception, state estimation and action in
complex mobile manipulation domains based on planning in the belief space of probability …

RoboEarth semantic mapping: A cloud enabled knowledge-based approach

L Riazuelo, M Tenorth, D Di Marco… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The vision of the RoboEarth project is to design a knowledge-based system to provide web
and cloud services that can transform a simple robot into an intelligent one. In this work, we …

Online planning for target object search in clutter under partial observability

Y Xiao, S Katt, A ten Pas, S Chen… - … Conference on Robotics …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of finding and grasping a target object in a cluttered, uncertain environment,
target object search, is a common and important problem in robotics. One key challenge is …

Semantic linking maps for active visual object search

Z Zeng, A Röfer, OC Jenkins - 2020 IEEE international …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We aim for mobile robots to function in a variety of common human environments. Such
robots need to be able to reason about the locations of previously unseen target objects …

3d vsg: Long-term semantic scene change prediction through 3d variable scene graphs

S Looper, J Rodriguez-Puigvert… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Numerous applications require robots to operate in environments shared with other agents,
such as humans or other robots. However, such shared scenes are typically subject to …

Act to see and see to act: POMDP planning for objects search in clutter

JK Li, D Hsu, WS Lee - 2016 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the problem of objects search in clutter. In cluttered environments, partial occlusion
among objects prevents vision systems from correctly recognizing objects. Hence, the agent …

Occlusion-aware search for object retrieval in clutter

W Bejjani, WC Agboh, MR Dogar… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We address the manipulation task of retrieving a target object from a cluttered shelf. When
the target object is hidden, the robot must search through the clutter for retrieving it. Solving …

Mechanical search on shelves using lateral access x-ray

H Huang, M Dominguez-Kuhne… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Finding an occluded object in a lateral access environment such as a shelf or cabinet is a
problem that arises in many contexts such as warehouses, retail, healthcare, shipping, and …