Search Results for author: Kostas Bekris

Found 27 papers, 10 papers with code

OVIR-3D: Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Retrieval Without Training on 3D Data

1 code implementation6 Nov 2023 Shiyang Lu, Haonan Chang, Eric Pu Jing, Abdeslam Boularias, Kostas Bekris

This work presents OVIR-3D, a straightforward yet effective method for open-vocabulary 3D object instance retrieval without using any 3D data for training.

3D Open-Vocabulary Instance Segmentation Region Proposal +2

Socially Cognizant Robotics for a Technology Enhanced Society

no code implementations27 Oct 2023 Kristin J. Dana, Clinton Andrews, Kostas Bekris, Jacob Feldman, Matthew Stone, Pernille Hemmer, Aaron Mazzeo, Hal Salzman, Jingang Yi

Emerging applications of robotics, and concerns about their impact, require the research community to put human-centric objectives front-and-center.

Context-Aware Entity Grounding with Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Graphs

1 code implementation27 Sep 2023 Haonan Chang, Kowndinya Boyalakuntla, Shiyang Lu, Siwei Cai, Eric Jing, Shreesh Keskar, Shijie Geng, Adeeb Abbas, Lifeng Zhou, Kostas Bekris, Abdeslam Boularias

We present an Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Graph (OVSG), a formal framework for grounding a variety of entities, such as object instances, agents, and regions, with free-form text-based queries.

Navigate Object +2

Pick Planning Strategies for Large-Scale Package Manipulation

no code implementations23 Sep 2023 Shuai Li, Azarakhsh Keipour, Kevin Jamieson, Nicolas Hudson, Sicong Zhao, Charles Swan, Kostas Bekris

Automating warehouse operations can reduce logistics overhead costs, ultimately driving down the final price for consumers, increasing the speed of delivery, and enhancing the resiliency to market fluctuations.

Demonstrating Large-Scale Package Manipulation via Learned Metrics of Pick Success

no code implementations17 May 2023 Shuai Li, Azarakhsh Keipour, Kevin Jamieson, Nicolas Hudson, Charles Swan, Kostas Bekris

This paper demonstrates a large-scale package manipulation from unstructured piles in Amazon Robotics' Robot Induction (Robin) fleet, which utilizes a pick success predictor trained on real production data.

Collision Avoidance

6N-DoF Pose Tracking for Tensegrity Robots

no code implementations29 May 2022 Shiyang Lu, William R. Johnson III, Kun Wang, Xiaonan Huang, Joran Booth, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Kostas Bekris

To ensure that the pose estimates of rigid elements are physically feasible, i. e., they are not resulting in collisions between rods or with the environment, physical constraints are introduced during the optimization.

Pose Estimation Pose Tracking

Lazy Rearrangement Planning in Confined Spaces

2 code implementations19 Mar 2022 Rui Wang, Kai Gao, Jingjin Yu, Kostas Bekris

Object rearrangement is important for many applications but remains challenging, especially in confined spaces, such as shelves, where objects cannot be accessed from above and they block reachability to each other.

Motion Planning

Learning Sensorimotor Primitives of Sequential Manipulation Tasks from Visual Demonstrations

no code implementations8 Mar 2022 Junchi Liang, Bowen Wen, Kostas Bekris, Abdeslam Boularias

This work aims to learn how to perform complex robot manipulation tasks that are composed of several, consecutively executed low-level sub-tasks, given as input a few visual demonstrations of the tasks performed by a person.

Imitation Learning Object +1

A Recurrent Differentiable Engine for Modeling Tensegrity Robots Trainable with Low-Frequency Data

no code implementations28 Feb 2022 Kun Wang, Mridul Aanjaneya, Kostas Bekris

A model of NASA's icosahedron SUPERballBot on MuJoCo is used as the ground truth system to collect training data.

You Only Demonstrate Once: Category-Level Manipulation from Single Visual Demonstration

2 code implementations30 Jan 2022 Bowen Wen, Wenzhao Lian, Kostas Bekris, Stefan Schaal

The canonical object representation is learned solely in simulation and then used to parse a category-level, task trajectory from a single demonstration video.

3D Object Tracking Industrial Robots +6

CaTGrasp: Learning Category-Level Task-Relevant Grasping in Clutter from Simulation

1 code implementation19 Sep 2021 Bowen Wen, Wenzhao Lian, Kostas Bekris, Stefan Schaal

This work proposes a framework to learn task-relevant grasping for industrial objects without the need of time-consuming real-world data collection or manual annotation.

Domain Generalization Grasp Contact Prediction +6

BundleTrack: 6D Pose Tracking for Novel Objects without Instance or Category-Level 3D Models

1 code implementation1 Aug 2021 Bowen Wen, Kostas Bekris

Most prior efforts, however, often assume that the target object's CAD model, at least at a category-level, is available for offline training or during online template matching.

 Ranked #1 on 6D Pose Estimation using RGBD on REAL275 (mAP 3DIou@25 metric)

3D Object Tracking 6D Pose Estimation +7

Vision-driven Compliant Manipulation for Reliable, High-Precision Assembly Tasks

1 code implementation26 Jun 2021 Andrew S. Morgan, Bowen Wen, Junchi Liang, Abdeslam Boularias, Aaron M. Dollar, Kostas Bekris

Highly constrained manipulation tasks continue to be challenging for autonomous robots as they require high levels of precision, typically less than 1mm, which is often incompatible with what can be achieved by traditional perception systems.

Motion Planning Object +2

Data-driven 6D Pose Tracking by Calibrating Image Residuals in Synthetic Domains

1 code implementation29 May 2021 Bowen Wen, Chaitanya Mitash, Kostas Bekris

This work presents se(3)-TrackNet, a data-driven optimization approach for long term, 6D pose tracking.

Pose Tracking Robot Manipulation

Perspectives on Sim2Real Transfer for Robotics: A Summary of the R:SS 2020 Workshop

no code implementations7 Dec 2020 Sebastian Höfer, Kostas Bekris, Ankur Handa, Juan Camilo Gamboa, Florian Golemo, Melissa Mozifian, Chris Atkeson, Dieter Fox, Ken Goldberg, John Leonard, C. Karen Liu, Jan Peters, Shuran Song, Peter Welinder, Martha White

This report presents the debates, posters, and discussions of the Sim2Real workshop held in conjunction with the 2020 edition of the "Robotics: Science and System" conference.

Sim2Sim Evaluation of a Novel Data-Efficient Differentiable Physics Engine for Tensegrity Robots

no code implementations10 Nov 2020 Kun Wang, Mridul Aanjaneya, Kostas Bekris

The results indicate that only 0. 25\% of ground truth data are needed to train a policy that works on the ground truth system when the differentiable engine is used for training against training the policy directly on the ground truth system.

Spring-Rod System Identification via Differentiable Physics Engine

no code implementations9 Nov 2020 Kun Wang, Mridul Aanjaneya, Kostas Bekris

We propose a novel differentiable physics engine for system identification of complex spring-rod assemblies.

regression

Task-driven Perception and Manipulation for Constrained Placement of Unknown Objects

no code implementations28 Jun 2020 Chaitanya Mitash, Rahul Shome, Bowen Wen, Abdeslam Boularias, Kostas Bekris

The effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated by developing a robotic system that picks a previously unseen object from a table-top and places it in a constrained space.

Robotics

That and There: Judging the Intent of Pointing Actions with Robotic Arms

1 code implementation13 Dec 2019 Malihe Alikhani, Baber Khalid, Rahul Shome, Chaitanya Mitash, Kostas Bekris, Matthew Stone

This work proposes a set of interpretive principles for how a robotic arm can use pointing actions to communicate task information to people by extending existing models from the related literature.

Common Sense Reasoning

Scene-level Pose Estimation for Multiple Instances of Densely Packed Objects

no code implementations11 Oct 2019 Chaitanya Mitash, Bowen Wen, Kostas Bekris, Abdeslam Boularias

To evaluate this method, a dataset of densely packed objects with challenging setups for state-of-the-art approaches is collected.

6D Pose Estimation

Physics-based Scene-level Reasoning for Object Pose Estimation in Clutter

no code implementations25 Jun 2018 Chaitanya Mitash, Abdeslam Boularias, Kostas Bekris

This work proposes an autonomous process for pose estimation that spans from data generation to scene-level reasoning and self-learning.

object-detection Object Detection +3

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