The Feeling of Success: Does Touch Sensing Help Predict Grasp Outcomes?

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Main Authors: Calandra, Roberto, Owens, Andrew, Upadhyaya, Manu, Yuan, Wenzhen, Lin, Justin, Adelson, Edward H., Levine, Sergey
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author Calandra, Roberto
Owens, Andrew
Upadhyaya, Manu
Yuan, Wenzhen
Lin, Justin
Adelson, Edward H.
Levine, Sergey
author_facet Calandra, Roberto
Owens, Andrew
Upadhyaya, Manu
Yuan, Wenzhen
Lin, Justin
Adelson, Edward H.
Levine, Sergey
contents A successful grasp requires careful balancing of the contact forces. Deducing whether a particular grasp will be successful from indirect measurements, such as vision, is therefore quite challenging, and direct sensing of contacts through touch sensing provides an appealing avenue toward more successful and consistent robotic grasping. However, in order to fully evaluate the value of touch sensing for grasp outcome prediction, we must understand how touch sensing can influence outcome prediction accuracy when combined with other modalities. Doing so using conventional model-based techniques is exceptionally difficult. In this work, we investigate the question of whether touch sensing aids in predicting grasp outcomes within a multimodal sensing framework that combines vision and touch. To that end, we collected more than 9,000 grasping trials using a two-finger gripper equipped with GelSight high-resolution tactile sensors on each finger, and evaluated visuo-tactile deep neural network models to directly predict grasp outcomes from either modality individually, and from both modalities together. Our experimental results indicate that incorporating tactile readings substantially improve grasping performance.
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spellingShingle The Feeling of Success: Does Touch Sensing Help Predict Grasp Outcomes?
Calandra, Roberto
Owens, Andrew
Upadhyaya, Manu
Yuan, Wenzhen
Lin, Justin
Adelson, Edward H.
Levine, Sergey
Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
A successful grasp requires careful balancing of the contact forces. Deducing whether a particular grasp will be successful from indirect measurements, such as vision, is therefore quite challenging, and direct sensing of contacts through touch sensing provides an appealing avenue toward more successful and consistent robotic grasping. However, in order to fully evaluate the value of touch sensing for grasp outcome prediction, we must understand how touch sensing can influence outcome prediction accuracy when combined with other modalities. Doing so using conventional model-based techniques is exceptionally difficult. In this work, we investigate the question of whether touch sensing aids in predicting grasp outcomes within a multimodal sensing framework that combines vision and touch. To that end, we collected more than 9,000 grasping trials using a two-finger gripper equipped with GelSight high-resolution tactile sensors on each finger, and evaluated visuo-tactile deep neural network models to directly predict grasp outcomes from either modality individually, and from both modalities together. Our experimental results indicate that incorporating tactile readings substantially improve grasping performance.
title The Feeling of Success: Does Touch Sensing Help Predict Grasp Outcomes?
topic Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05512