Wei, Mingze
CMG-Net: An End-to-End Contact-Based Multi-Finger Dexterous Grasping Network
Wei, Mingze, Huang, Yaomin, Xu, Zhiyuan, Liu, Ning, Che, Zhengping, Zhang, Xinyu, Shen, Chaomin, Feng, Feifei, Shan, Chun, Tang, Jian
In this paper, we propose a novel representation for grasping using contacts between multi-finger robotic hands and objects to be manipulated. This representation significantly reduces the prediction dimensions and accelerates the learning process. We present an effective end-to-end network, CMG-Net, for grasping unknown objects in a cluttered environment by efficiently predicting multi-finger grasp poses and hand configurations from a single-shot point cloud. Moreover, we create a synthetic grasp dataset that consists of five thousand cluttered scenes, 80 object categories, and 20 million annotations. We perform a comprehensive empirical study and demonstrate the effectiveness of our grasping representation and CMG-Net. Our work significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art for three-finger robotic hands. We also demonstrate that the model trained using synthetic data performs very well for real robots.