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Hauptverfasser: Lu, Hao, Shome, Rahul
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17800
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author Lu, Hao
Shome, Rahul
author_facet Lu, Hao
Shome, Rahul
contents Rearranging densely packed tabletop objects is challenging when parallel-gripper picks are infeasible without sufficient clearance around an object. This work studies the problem characteristics for practically motivated settings with uniformly sized blocks placed at planar tabletop grid locations. Since purely prehensile removal can become infeasible, a directional knock primitive is therefore introduced and the optimal knock-pick variant of the problem is formulated. The work proposes a series of abstractions wherein minimal constraining gadgets are covered to identify the necessary knocks. Utilizing a maximum-weight perfect matching on a graphical abstraction yields efficient polynomial-time computation of the optimal plan that minimizes the number of actions. Experiments are reported for increasing grid sizes in synthetic settings as well as in IsaacSim. The theoretical observations provide a promising stepping stone towards rigorously building efficient manipulation strategies that interleave prehensile and non-prehensile actions.
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spellingShingle Optimal Knock-Pick Planning for Tightly Packed Tabletop Blocks With Parallel Grippers
Lu, Hao
Shome, Rahul
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Rearranging densely packed tabletop objects is challenging when parallel-gripper picks are infeasible without sufficient clearance around an object. This work studies the problem characteristics for practically motivated settings with uniformly sized blocks placed at planar tabletop grid locations. Since purely prehensile removal can become infeasible, a directional knock primitive is therefore introduced and the optimal knock-pick variant of the problem is formulated. The work proposes a series of abstractions wherein minimal constraining gadgets are covered to identify the necessary knocks. Utilizing a maximum-weight perfect matching on a graphical abstraction yields efficient polynomial-time computation of the optimal plan that minimizes the number of actions. Experiments are reported for increasing grid sizes in synthetic settings as well as in IsaacSim. The theoretical observations provide a promising stepping stone towards rigorously building efficient manipulation strategies that interleave prehensile and non-prehensile actions.
title Optimal Knock-Pick Planning for Tightly Packed Tabletop Blocks With Parallel Grippers
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17800