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Conventional methods to autonomous grasping rely on a pre-computed database with known objects to synthesize grasps, which is not possible for novel objects. On the other hand, recently proposed deep learning-based approaches have demonstrated the ability to generalize grasp for unknown objects. However, grasp generation still remains a challenging problem, especially in cluttered environments under partial occlusion. In this work, we propose an end-to-end deep learning approach for generating 6-DOF collision-free grasps given a 3D scene point cloud. To build robustness to occlusion, the proposed model generates candidates by casting votes and accumulating evidence for feasible grasp configurations. We exploit contextual information by encoding the dependency of objects in the scene into features to boost the performance of grasp generation. The contextual information enables our model to increase the likelihood that the generated grasps are collision-free. Our experimental results confirm that the proposed system performs favorably in terms of predicting object grasps in cluttered environments in comparison to the current state of the art methods.

We present an approach for recognizing objects present in a scene and estimating their full pose by means of an accurate 3D instance-aware semantic reconstruction. Our framework couples convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and a state-of-the-art dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system, ElasticFusion (Whelan et al., 2016), to achieve both high-quality semantic reconstruction as well as robust 6D pose estimation for relevant objects. We leverage the pipeline of ElasticFusion as a backbone, and propose a joint geometric and photometric error function with per-pixel adaptive weights. While the main trend in CNN-based 6D pose estimation has been to infer object’s position and orientation from single views of the scene, our approach explores performing pose estimation from multiple viewpoints, under the conjecture that combining multiple predictions can improve the robustness of an object detection system. The resulting system is capable of producing high-quality instance-aware semantic reconstructions of room-sized environments, as well as accurately detecting objects and their 6D poses. The developed method has been verified through extensive experiments on different datasets. Experimental results confirmed that the proposed system achieves improvements over state-of-the-art methods in terms of surface reconstruction and object pose prediction. Our code and video are available at https://sites.google.com/view/object-rpe .

We present an approach for recognizing all objects in a scene and estimating their full pose from an accurate 3D instance-aware semantic reconstruction using an RGB-D camera. Our framework couples convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and a state-of-the-art dense Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) system, ElasticFusion, to achieve both high-quality semantic reconstruction as well as robust 6D pose estimation for relevant objects. While the main trend in CNN-based 6D pose estimation has been to infer object's position and orientation from single views of the scene, our approach explores performing pose estimation from multiple viewpoints, under the conjecture that combining multiple predictions can improve the robustness of an object detection system. The resulting system is capable of producing high-quality object-aware semantic reconstructions of room-sized environments, as well as accurately detecting objects and their 6D poses. The developed method has been verified through experimental validation on the YCB-Video dataset and a newly collected warehouse object dataset. Experimental results confirmed that the proposed system achieves improvements over state-of-the-art methods in terms of surface reconstruction and object pose prediction. Our code and video are available at https://sites.google.com/view/object-rpe., Presented at European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), Prague, 2019. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1903.10782