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Cloth grasp point detection based on multiple-view geometric cues with application to robotic towel folding

Maitin-Shepard, Jeremy, Cusumano-Towner, Marco, Lei, Jinna, Abbeel, Pieter·2010·2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Abstract

We present a novel vision-based grasp point detection algorithm that can reliably detect the corners of a piece of cloth, using only geometric cues that are robust to variation in texture. Furthermore, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm in the context of folding a towel using a general-purpose two-armed mobile robotic platform without the use of specialized end-effectors or tools. The robot begins by picking up a randomly dropped towel from a table, goes through a sequence of vision-based re-grasps and manipulations-partially in the air, partially on the table-and finally stacks the folded towel in a target location. The reliability and robustness of our algorithm enables for the first time a robot with general purpose manipulators to reliably and fully-autonomously fold previously unseen towels, demonstrating success on all 50 out of 50 single-towel trials as well as on a pile of 5 towels.

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Authors
Maitin-Shepard, J., Cusumano-Towner, M., Lei, J., & Abbeel, P.
Affiliations
University of California, Berkeley (US)
Venue
2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2010-05
Pages
2308-2315
ISSN
1050-4729 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2089630413
Cited by
418
References
29
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FWCI
43.15
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Science Foundation
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Control and Systems Engineering › Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Vision and Imaging
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Computational Mechanics › 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
Keywords
multi-view geometry, geometric cues, autonomous manipulation

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