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CaTGrasp: Learning Category-Level Task-Relevant Grasping in Clutter from Simulation

19 Sep 2021arXiv:2109.09163archive 2025-07-28

Bowen Wen, Wenzhao Lian, Kostas Bekris, Stefan Schaal

Task-relevant grasping is critical for industrial assembly, where downstream manipulation tasks constrain the set of valid grasps. Learning how to perform this task, however, is challenging, since task-relevant grasp labels are hard to define and annotate. There is also yet no consensus on proper representations for modeling or off-the-shelf tools for performing task-relevant grasps. This work proposes a framework to learn task-relevant grasping for industrial objects without the need of time-consuming real-world data collection or manual annotation. To achieve this, the entire framework is trained solely in simulation, including supervised training with synthetic label generation and self-supervised, hand-object interaction. In the context of this framework, this paper proposes a novel, object-centric canonical representation at the category level, which allows establishing dense correspondence across object instances and transferring task-relevant grasps to novel instances. Extensive experiments on task-relevant grasping of densely-cluttered industrial objects are conducted in both simulation and real-world setups, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed framework. Code and data are available at https://sites.google.com/view/catgrasp.

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Domain AdaptationDomain GeneralizationGrasp Contact PredictionGrasp GenerationIndustrial RobotsObjectPhysical SimulationsRobot Task PlanningRobotic Grasping

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