DemoGrasp: Few-Shot Learning for Robotic Grasping with Human Demonstration

Wang P, Manhardt F, Minciullo L, Garattoni L, Meier S, Navab N, Busam B (2021)


Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2021

Journal

Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Pages Range: 5733-5740

Conference Proceedings Title: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Event location: Prague, CZE

ISBN: 9781665417143

DOI: 10.1109/IROS51168.2021.9636856

Abstract

The ability to successfully grasp objects is crucial in robotics, as it enables several interactive downstream applications. To this end, most approaches either compute the full 6D pose for the object of interest or learn to predict a set of grasping points. While the former approaches do not scale well to multiple object instances or classes yet, the latter require large annotated datasets and are hampered by their poor generalization capabilities to new geometries. To overcome these shortcomings, we propose to teach a robot how to grasp an object with a simple and short human demonstration. Hence, our approach neither requires many annotated images nor is it restricted to a specific geometry. We first present a small sequence of RGB-D images displaying a human-object interaction. This sequence is then leveraged to build associated hand and object meshes that represent the depicted interaction. Subsequently, we complete missing parts of the reconstructed object shape and estimate the relative transformation between the reconstruction and the visible object in the scene. Finally, we transfer the a-priori knowledge from the relative pose between object and human hand with the estimate of the current object pose in the scene into necessary grasping instructions for the robot. Exhaustive evaluations with Toyota's Human Support Robot (HSR) in real and synthetic environments demonstrate the applicability of our proposed methodology and its advantage in comparison to previous approaches.

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APA:

Wang, P., Manhardt, F., Minciullo, L., Garattoni, L., Meier, S., Navab, N., & Busam, B. (2021). DemoGrasp: Few-Shot Learning for Robotic Grasping with Human Demonstration. In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (pp. 5733-5740). Prague, CZE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..

MLA:

Wang, Pengyuan, et al. "DemoGrasp: Few-Shot Learning for Robotic Grasping with Human Demonstration." Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2021, Prague, CZE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021. 5733-5740.

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