General Description

This is a series of works that use knowledge base representations to associate objects with their affordances, especifically for grasping purposes.

Learning Grasp Affordance Reasoning through Semantic Relations

Work description
This is a dataset that for visual grasp affordance prediction that promotes more robust and heterogeneous robotic grasping methods. The dataset contains different attributes from 30 different objects. Each object instance is related not only to the semantic descriptions, but also the physical features describing visual attributes, locations and different grasping regions related to a variety of actions.

Grasping labels
We adopt the grasping ground truth labels from Robot Learning Lab (RLL) and use their grasping regions [red rectangles in example Figure (a)] to label objects contained in the RLL and D-RGB Washington database . We use these adaptations as grasp affordance regions corresponding to different actions on an object.

Location Labels
For the features and labels of indoor locations we use AI2Thor and MIT indoor scenes datasets and labels to train our model.

Collected Data to Associate Semantics
To know which of the stable grasping regions affords what action and under which context we conducted a survey using Figure-eight platform to assign an affordance label to the regions [as numbers in the rectangles of Figure (b)].

Ardón, P.; Pairet; È., Petrick, R.; Ramamoorthy, S.; and Lohan, K. S. "Learning Grasp Affordance Reasoning through Semantic Relations". IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). To be presented at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). November 2019.

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Self-Assessment of Grasp Affordance Transfer (SAGAT)

Work description
We present a pipeline for self-assessment of grasp affordance transfer (SAGAT) based on prior experiences. We visually detect a grasp affordance region to extract multiple grasp affordance configuration candidates. Using these candidates, we forward simulate the outcome of executing the affordance task to analyse the relation between task outcome and grasp candidates.

Ardón, P.; Pairet È.; Petrick, R.; Ramamoorthy, S.; and Lohan, K. S. "Self-Assessment of Grasp Affordance Transfer". IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). October 2020.

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Affordance-Aware Handovers with Human Arm Mobility Constraints

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We propose a heuristic-guided hierarchically optimised cost whose optimisation adapts object configurations for receivers with low arm mobility. This also ensures that the robot grasps consider the context of the user’s upcoming task, i.e., the usage of the object.

Ardón, P.; Maria E. Cabrera; Pairet È.; Petrick, R.; Ramamoorthy, S.; Lohan, K. S.; and Maya Cakmak "Affordance-Aware Handovers with Human Arm Mobility Constraints". IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) to be Presented in ICRA. June 2021.

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