Articulation modeling enables robots to learn joint parameters of articulated objects for effective manipulation which can then be used downstream for skill learning or planning. Existing approaches often rely on prior knowledge about the objects, such as the number or type of joints. Some of these approaches also fail to recover occluded joints that are only revealed during interaction. Others require large numbers of multi-view images for every object, which is impractical in real-world settings. Furthermore, prior works neglect the order of manipulations, which is essential for many multi-DoF objects where one joint must be operated before another, such as a dishwasher. We introduce PokeNet, an end-to-end framework that estimates articulation models from a single human demonstration without prior object knowledge. Given a sequence of point cloud observations of a human manipulating an unknown object, PokeNet predicts joint parameters, infers manipulation order, and tracks joint states over time. PokeNet outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods, improving joint axis and state estimation accuracy by an average of over 27% across diverse objects, including novel and unseen categories. We demonstrate these gains in both simulation and real-world environments.
TacMan-Turbo: Proactive Tactile Control for Robust and Efficient Articulated Object Manipulation
Peking University(北京大学);State Key Lab of General AI at Peking University(北京大学通用人工智能国家重点实验室);PKU-BingJi Joint Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence(北京大学-百度智云人工智能联合实验室);Wuhan Major Scientific and Technological Special Program(武汉重大科技专项);Hubei Embodied Intelligence Foundation Model Research and Development Program(湖北省具身智能基础模型研发计划);National Comprehensive Experimental Base for Governance of Intelligent Society(智能社会治理国家综合实验基地);LeapZenith AI Research(LeapZenith人工智能研究);Tsinghua University(清华大学);Embodied Intelligence Lab(具身智能实验室);PKU-Wuhan Institute for Artificial Intelligence(北京大学-武汉人工智能研究院);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学)
Kinematic-aware Prompting for Generalizable Articulated Object Manipulation with LLMs
Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China(中国人民大学高瓴人工智能学院);Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory(上海人工智能实验室);Northwestern Polytechnical University(西北工业大学);Institute of Artificial Intelligence, China Telecom Corp Ltd(中国电信股份有限公司人工智能研究院)
Vi-TacMan: Articulated Object Manipulation via Vision and Touch
Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院沈阳自动化研究所);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学);Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University(北京大学人工智能研究院);School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University(北京大学心理与认知科学学院);State Key Lab of General AI, Peking University(北京大学通用人工智能国家重点实验室);Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University(北京大学行为与心理健康北京市重点实验室);LeapZenith AI Research(跃臻人工智能研究院);Embodied Intelligence Lab, PKU-Wuhan Institute for Artificial Intelligence(北京大学武汉人工智能研究院具身智能实验室)
ArtGS:3D Gaussian Splatting for Interactive Visual-Physical Modeling and Manipulation of Articulated Objects
Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);Shanghai AI Laboratory(上海人工智能实验室);National University of Singapore(国立新加坡大学);Princeton University(普林斯顿大学);Stanford University(斯坦福大学);Hefei University of Technology(合肥工业大学)
Riemannian Optimization for Distance-Geometric Inverse Kinematics
University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies(多伦多大学航空航天研究所);University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing(萨格勒布大学电气工程与计算学院)
An Iterative Algorithm to Symbolically Derive Generalized n-Trailer Vehicle Kinematics
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University(机械与航空航天工程系,俄亥俄州立大学);Department of Engineering Education, The Ohio State University(工程教育系,俄亥俄州立大学);The Ohio State University Center for Automotive Research(俄亥俄州立大学汽车研究中心)
Tac-Man: Tactile-Informed Prior-Free Manipulation of Articulated Objects
Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University(北京大学人工智能研究院);Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence(北京人工智能研究院);Department of Automation, Tsinghua University(清华大学自动化系);College of Engineering, Peking University(北京大学工程学院);PKU-Wuhan Institute for Artificial Intelligence(北大-武汉人工智能研究院)
URDF-Anything: Constructing Articulated Objects with 3D Multimodal Language Model
State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University(多媒体信息处理国家重点实验室,计算机学院,北京大学);University of Washington(华盛顿大学)
GSAM: A Generalizable and Safe Robotic Framework for Articulated Object Manipulation
College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China(重庆大学计算机学院);Lumos Robotics, China(Lumos机器人中国);Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China(西安交通大学利物浦大学);Fudan University, China(复旦大学);Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Trento, Italy(特伦托大学信息工程与计算机科学系)
Integration of Robot and Scene Kinematics for Sequential Mobile Manipulation Planning
State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI), Beijing(国家一般人工智能重点实验室,北京一般人工智能研究院(BIGAI),北京);Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University(北京大学人工智能研究院);Institute for Artificial Intelligence and School of Artificial Intelligence, Peking University(北京大学人工智能研究院和人工智能学院);Department of Automation, Tsinghua University(清华大学自动化系)