Title
Deep learning-based method for vision-guided robotic grasping of unknown objects.
Abstract
Nowadays, robots are heavily used in factories for different tasks, most of them including grasping and manipulation of generic objects in unstructured scenarios. In order to better mimic a human operator involved in a grasping action, where he/she needs to identify the object and detect an optimal grasp by means of visual information, a widely adopted sensing solution is Artificial Vision. Nonetheless, state-of-art applications need long training and fine-tuning for manually build the object’s model that is used at run-time during the normal operations, which reduce the overall operational throughput of the robotic system. To overcome such limits, the paper presents a framework based on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) to predict both single and multiple grasp poses for multiple objects all at once, using a single RGB image as input. Thanks to a novel loss function, our framework is trained in an end-to-end fashion and matches state-of-art accuracy with a substantially smaller architecture, which gives unprecedented real-time performances during experimental tests, and makes the application reliable for working on real robots. The system has been implemented using the ROS framework and tested on a Baxter collaborative robot.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.aei.2020.101052
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Collaborative robotics,Deep learning,Vision-guided robotic grasping,Industry 4.0
Journal
44
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1474-0346
1
0.41
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luca Bergamini142.15
Mario Sposato210.41
marcello pellicciari3236.03
Margherita Peruzzini43310.93
Simone Calderara593654.25
Juliana Schmidt610.41