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ContactGrasp: Functional Multi-finger Grasp Synthesis from Contact
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Grasping and manipulating objects is an important human skill. Since most objects are designed to be manipulated by human hands, anthropomorphic hands can enable richer human-robot interaction. Desirable grasps are not only stable, but also functional: they enable post-grasp actions with the object. However, functional grasp synthesis for high degree-of-freedom anthropomorphic hands from object shape alone is challenging. We present ContactGrasp, a framework for functional grasp synthesis from object shape and contact on the object surface. Contact can be manually specified or obtained through demonstrations. Our contact representation is object-centric and allows functional grasp synthesis even for hand models different than the one used for demonstration. Using a dataset of contact demonstrations from humans grasping diverse household objects, we synthesize functional grasps for three hand models and two functional intents. The project webpage is https://contactdb.cc.gatech.edu/contactgrasp.html.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Brahmbhatt, S., Handa, A., Hays, J., & Fox, D.
- Affiliations
- Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
- Nvidia (United States) (US)
- Venue
- 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2019-11
- Pages
- 2386-2393
- ISSN
- 2153-0858 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2934245910
- Cited by
- 125
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 34 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 15.46
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Control and Systems Engineering › Robot Manipulation and Learning
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Soft Robotics and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
- Keywords
- anthropomorphic hand, object shape, human-robot interaction, household products, grasp stability
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