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author De Gusseme, Victor-Louis
Lips, Thomas
Proesmans, Remko
Hietala, Julius
Lee, Giwan
Choi, Jiyoung
Choi, Jeongil
Kim, Geon
Yonrith, Phayuth
Tabernik, Domen
Gams, Andrej
Nimac, Peter
Urbas, Matej
Muhovič, Jon
Skočaj, Danijel
Mavsar, Matija
Yu, Hyojeong
Kwon, Minseo
Kim, Young J.
Cong, Yang
Chen, Ronghan
Ren, Yu
Diao, Supeng
Weng, Jiawei
Liu, Jiayue
Sun, Haoran
Yang, Linhan
Zhang, Zeqing
Guo, Ning
Yang, Lei
Wan, Fang
Song, Chaoyang
Pan, Jia
Jin, Yixiang
A, Yong
Shi, Jun
Li, Dingzhe
Yang, Yong
Yamasaki, Kakeru
Kajiwara, Takumi
Nakadera, Yuki
Saxena, Krati
Shibata, Tomohiro
Xia, Chongkun
Mo, Kai
Yu, Yanzhao
Lin, Qihao
Ma, Binqiang
Sagong, Uihun
Choi, JungHyun
Park, JeongHyun
Lee, Dongwoo
Kim, Yeongmin
Hwang, Myun Joong
Kuribayashi, Yusuke
Hiratsuka, Naoki
Tanaka, Daisuke
Arnold, Solvi
Yamazaki, Kimitoshi
Mateo-Agullo, Carlos
Verleysen, Andreas
Wyffels, Francis
author_facet De Gusseme, Victor-Louis
Lips, Thomas
Proesmans, Remko
Hietala, Julius
Lee, Giwan
Choi, Jiyoung
Choi, Jeongil
Kim, Geon
Yonrith, Phayuth
Tabernik, Domen
Gams, Andrej
Nimac, Peter
Urbas, Matej
Muhovič, Jon
Skočaj, Danijel
Mavsar, Matija
Yu, Hyojeong
Kwon, Minseo
Kim, Young J.
Cong, Yang
Chen, Ronghan
Ren, Yu
Diao, Supeng
Weng, Jiawei
Liu, Jiayue
Sun, Haoran
Yang, Linhan
Zhang, Zeqing
Guo, Ning
Yang, Lei
Wan, Fang
Song, Chaoyang
Pan, Jia
Jin, Yixiang
A, Yong
Shi, Jun
Li, Dingzhe
Yang, Yong
Yamasaki, Kakeru
Kajiwara, Takumi
Nakadera, Yuki
Saxena, Krati
Shibata, Tomohiro
Xia, Chongkun
Mo, Kai
Yu, Yanzhao
Lin, Qihao
Ma, Binqiang
Sagong, Uihun
Choi, JungHyun
Park, JeongHyun
Lee, Dongwoo
Kim, Yeongmin
Hwang, Myun Joong
Kuribayashi, Yusuke
Hiratsuka, Naoki
Tanaka, Daisuke
Arnold, Solvi
Yamazaki, Kimitoshi
Mateo-Agullo, Carlos
Verleysen, Andreas
Wyffels, Francis
contents Robotic cloth manipulation suffers from a lack of standardized benchmarks and shared datasets for evaluating and comparing different approaches. To address this, we created a benchmark and organized the ICRA 2024 Cloth Competition, a unique head-to-head evaluation focused on grasp pose selection for in-air robotic cloth unfolding. Eleven diverse teams participated in the competition, utilizing our publicly released dataset of real-world robotic cloth unfolding attempts and a variety of methods to design their unfolding approaches. Afterwards, we also expanded our dataset with 176 competition evaluation trials, resulting in a dataset of 679 unfolding demonstrations across 34 garments. Analysis of the competition results revealed insights about the trade-off between grasp success and coverage, the surprisingly strong achievements of hand-engineered methods and a significant discrepancy between competition performance and prior work, underscoring the importance of independent, out-of-the-lab evaluation in robotic cloth manipulation. The associated dataset is a valuable resource for developing and evaluating grasp selection methods, particularly for learning-based approaches. We hope that our benchmark, dataset and competition results can serve as a foundation for future benchmarks and drive further progress in data-driven robotic cloth manipulation. The dataset and benchmarking code are available at https://airo.ugent.be/cloth_competition.
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spellingShingle A Dataset and Benchmark for Robotic Cloth Unfolding Grasp Selection: The ICRA 2024 Cloth Competition
De Gusseme, Victor-Louis
Lips, Thomas
Proesmans, Remko
Hietala, Julius
Lee, Giwan
Choi, Jiyoung
Choi, Jeongil
Kim, Geon
Yonrith, Phayuth
Tabernik, Domen
Gams, Andrej
Nimac, Peter
Urbas, Matej
Muhovič, Jon
Skočaj, Danijel
Mavsar, Matija
Yu, Hyojeong
Kwon, Minseo
Kim, Young J.
Cong, Yang
Chen, Ronghan
Ren, Yu
Diao, Supeng
Weng, Jiawei
Liu, Jiayue
Sun, Haoran
Yang, Linhan
Zhang, Zeqing
Guo, Ning
Yang, Lei
Wan, Fang
Song, Chaoyang
Pan, Jia
Jin, Yixiang
A, Yong
Shi, Jun
Li, Dingzhe
Yang, Yong
Yamasaki, Kakeru
Kajiwara, Takumi
Nakadera, Yuki
Saxena, Krati
Shibata, Tomohiro
Xia, Chongkun
Mo, Kai
Yu, Yanzhao
Lin, Qihao
Ma, Binqiang
Sagong, Uihun
Choi, JungHyun
Park, JeongHyun
Lee, Dongwoo
Kim, Yeongmin
Hwang, Myun Joong
Kuribayashi, Yusuke
Hiratsuka, Naoki
Tanaka, Daisuke
Arnold, Solvi
Yamazaki, Kimitoshi
Mateo-Agullo, Carlos
Verleysen, Andreas
Wyffels, Francis
Robotics
Robotic cloth manipulation suffers from a lack of standardized benchmarks and shared datasets for evaluating and comparing different approaches. To address this, we created a benchmark and organized the ICRA 2024 Cloth Competition, a unique head-to-head evaluation focused on grasp pose selection for in-air robotic cloth unfolding. Eleven diverse teams participated in the competition, utilizing our publicly released dataset of real-world robotic cloth unfolding attempts and a variety of methods to design their unfolding approaches. Afterwards, we also expanded our dataset with 176 competition evaluation trials, resulting in a dataset of 679 unfolding demonstrations across 34 garments. Analysis of the competition results revealed insights about the trade-off between grasp success and coverage, the surprisingly strong achievements of hand-engineered methods and a significant discrepancy between competition performance and prior work, underscoring the importance of independent, out-of-the-lab evaluation in robotic cloth manipulation. The associated dataset is a valuable resource for developing and evaluating grasp selection methods, particularly for learning-based approaches. We hope that our benchmark, dataset and competition results can serve as a foundation for future benchmarks and drive further progress in data-driven robotic cloth manipulation. The dataset and benchmarking code are available at https://airo.ugent.be/cloth_competition.
title A Dataset and Benchmark for Robotic Cloth Unfolding Grasp Selection: The ICRA 2024 Cloth Competition
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16749