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Main Authors: Dong, Yi, Liu, Yangjun, Duan, Jinjun, Li, Yang, Dai, Zhendong
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02135
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author Dong, Yi
Liu, Yangjun
Duan, Jinjun
Li, Yang
Dai, Zhendong
author_facet Dong, Yi
Liu, Yangjun
Duan, Jinjun
Li, Yang
Dai, Zhendong
contents Desktop organization remains challenging for service robots because of heterogeneous objects and diverse manipulation objectives, such as collection and stacking. In this article, a task-oriented framework is presented for organizing planar rigid and deformable objects on desks. A perception pipeline was developed that augments existing datasets with uncommon desktop items and makes geometry-based pose and keypoint estimation possible, along with the detection of environmental constraints, such as table edges. To handle diverse manipulation requirements, environment-assisted primitives are used, including contact-based grasping for small objects, edge-based push-grasping for planar rigid objects, and levering-based grasping for planar deformable objects. These primitives leverage environmental and interobject constraints to improve robustness. A task planner was designed to integrate these primitives into multiobject organization. Sufficient real-world experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed framework. This research provides practical manipulation primitives for planar rigid and deformable objects, highlighting the role of environmental and interobject constraints in complex multiobject manipulation tasks. Code and video are available online.
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spellingShingle Robotic Desk Organization: A Multi-Primitive Approach to Manipulating Heterogeneous Objects via Environmental Constraints
Dong, Yi
Liu, Yangjun
Duan, Jinjun
Li, Yang
Dai, Zhendong
Robotics
Desktop organization remains challenging for service robots because of heterogeneous objects and diverse manipulation objectives, such as collection and stacking. In this article, a task-oriented framework is presented for organizing planar rigid and deformable objects on desks. A perception pipeline was developed that augments existing datasets with uncommon desktop items and makes geometry-based pose and keypoint estimation possible, along with the detection of environmental constraints, such as table edges. To handle diverse manipulation requirements, environment-assisted primitives are used, including contact-based grasping for small objects, edge-based push-grasping for planar rigid objects, and levering-based grasping for planar deformable objects. These primitives leverage environmental and interobject constraints to improve robustness. A task planner was designed to integrate these primitives into multiobject organization. Sufficient real-world experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed framework. This research provides practical manipulation primitives for planar rigid and deformable objects, highlighting the role of environmental and interobject constraints in complex multiobject manipulation tasks. Code and video are available online.
title Robotic Desk Organization: A Multi-Primitive Approach to Manipulating Heterogeneous Objects via Environmental Constraints
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02135