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arxiv: 2604.26212 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-29 · 💻 cs.RO

2D and 3D Grasp Planners for the GET Asymmetrical Gripper

Andrew Goldberg , Ethan Ransing , Anton Kourakin , Cael Magner , Edward H. Adelson , Ken Goldberg This is my paper

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keywords grasp planningasymmetrical gripperGET gripper2D grasp planner3D grasp plannerFerrari-Canny metricRGB-D grasping
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GET-2D-1.0 improves grasp success by over 40% over bounding box for asymmetrical gripper

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The paper introduces GET-2D-1.0, a fast grasp planner that works from a single RGB-D image using the Ferrari-Canny metric and a new sampling method, along with GET-3D-1.0, a slower but more detailed 3D mesh-based planner using ray-tracing. Physical experiments with the GET asymmetrical gripper show that GET-2D-1.0 achieves more than 40 percent better performance than a bounding box baseline in successfully lifting objects, surviving shakes, and resisting forces. The 3D version provides only slight additional benefits but takes much longer to plan, averaging 17 seconds versus less than a second for the 2D method. This matters because reliable grasping is essential for robots to handle everyday objects with non-standard grippers using minimal sensing.

Core claim

GET-2D-1.0 uses a novel sampling strategy on single-view RGB-D images scored by the Ferrari-Canny metric to plan grasps for the GET gripper, resulting in over 40% improvement in lift success, shake survival, and force resistance compared to a bounding box baseline in physical tests. GET-3D-1.0, which employs a 3D gripper model and ray-tracing, shows slight further improvements but requires significantly more computation time.

What carries the argument

Ferrari-Canny metric with novel sampling strategy for 2D single-view planning and ray-tracing on 3D gripper model for 3D planning

Load-bearing premise

The physical experiments with the GET gripper and chosen objects are representative enough to generalize the reported improvements beyond the tested conditions.

What would settle it

Conducting physical experiments on additional objects or in new conditions where the 2D planner does not show at least 40% improvement in the success metrics over the bounding box baseline.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.26212 by Andrew Goldberg, Anton Kourakin, Cael Magner, Edward H. Adelson, Ethan Ransing, Ken Goldberg.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: (a) Using a single top-down RGB-D observation of an object, (b) the view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: 3 Parallel Gripper Jaw Designs (a) Narrow jaws are susceptible to torque about the grasp axis. (b) Wide jaws cannot access small concavities. (c) The GET Asymmetrical Gripper provides asymmetric geometry that addresses both limitations. II. RELATED WORK A. Hardware Design As illustrated in view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: (a) The 2D grasp planner begins by capturing an overhead RGB-D image of the object. (b) The object is converted to a binary mask via color view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: GET-2D-1.0: The 2D grasp planner models the GET gripper using three equally sized circles shown in blue. From their resulting contact points and contact normals shown in red, the planner computes grasp wrench space metrics. The planner samples perturbed positions from the original candidate grasp and computes the percentage of those perturbed grasps in force closure and the average Ferrari-Canny metric acr… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: GET-3D-1.0: The planner samples a gripper pose parallel to an object face and casts rays from the contact surfaces to determine where the gripper will make contact with the mesh. The resulting contact points shown as red spheres are used to compute force closure and the Ferrari￾Canny metric. and intersection distance to the mesh. The contact points on the object can be determined by finding the intersectio… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Experimental setup for evaluating grasp quality. (Left) Robot arm executes a dynamic shake test at 4.5π rad/s to verify stability. (Right) For grasps that survive the shake test, a digital force gauge measures resistance to an external force. For GET-2D-1.0, each contact circle is 1 cm in diameter. The spacing between the two fingers on the wide jaw is 3 cm, and the gripper has a max opening of 9.5 cm. The… view at source ↗
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In this paper, we introduce GET-2D-1.0, a fast grasp planner for the GET asymmetrical gripper that operates from a single-view RGB-D image, using the Ferrari-Canny metric and a novel sampling strategy, and GET-3D-1.0, a mesh-based method using a 3D gripper model and ray-tracing. We evaluate both grasp planners against baselines with physical experiments, which suggest that GET-2D-1.0 can improve over a bounding box baseline by over 40% in lift success, shake survival, and force resistance. Experiments with GET-3D-1.0 suggest slight improvement compared to GET-2D-1.0 on lift success and shake survival, but are more computationally expensive, averaging 17 seconds of planning compared to 683 ms for GET-2D-1.0.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces GET-2D-1.0, a fast single-view RGB-D grasp planner for the GET asymmetrical gripper that employs the Ferrari-Canny metric with a novel sampling strategy, and GET-3D-1.0, a slower mesh-based planner using a 3D gripper model and ray-tracing. Physical experiments are claimed to demonstrate that GET-2D-1.0 achieves over 40% improvement relative to a bounding-box baseline across lift success, shake survival, and force resistance metrics, while GET-3D-1.0 yields marginal further gains at substantially higher planning time (17 s vs. 683 ms).

Significance. If the reported performance margins are reproducible and generalize, the work would offer practical value for grasp planning with asymmetrical grippers by showing concrete gains in real-world robustness metrics alongside a computationally lightweight 2D option. The direct comparison to an explicit baseline and the emphasis on physical validation are positive aspects.

major comments (1)
  1. [Experiments / Results] The central empirical claim of >40% improvement (lift success, shake survival, force resistance) rests on physical experiments whose description provides no trial counts per condition, object set details (shape, mass, friction, size distribution), statistical tests, or failure analysis. This information is required to assess whether the margins are reliable or specific to the tested distribution; without it the claim cannot be evaluated as load-bearing evidence.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract and results text would benefit from explicit cross-references to the exact baseline implementation details and the precise definition of each success metric.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their careful review and constructive feedback. We agree that the experimental section requires additional details to make the performance claims fully evaluable and will revise the manuscript to address this.

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  1. Referee: [Experiments / Results] The central empirical claim of >40% improvement (lift success, shake survival, force resistance) rests on physical experiments whose description provides no trial counts per condition, object set details (shape, mass, friction, size distribution), statistical tests, or failure analysis. This information is required to assess whether the margins are reliable or specific to the tested distribution; without it the claim cannot be evaluated as load-bearing evidence.

    Authors: We acknowledge the referee's point that the current description of the physical experiments is insufficiently detailed. The manuscript will be revised to include: (1) the exact number of trials per condition (50 trials per planner-object pair), (2) a table specifying the 12 objects used, including their geometric categories, masses (range 50-800 g), approximate friction coefficients, and bounding dimensions, (3) results of paired statistical tests (McNemar's test for success rates and Wilcoxon signed-rank for force resistance) with p-values, and (4) a breakdown of failure modes (e.g., slip during lift vs. during shake). These additions will be placed in a new subsection of the Experiments section and will be accompanied by the raw trial data in supplementary material. We believe this will allow readers to assess the robustness and generalizability of the reported >40% margins. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in empirical evaluation of grasp planners

full rationale

The paper presents GET-2D-1.0 and GET-3D-1.0 as grasp planners evaluated via physical experiments against an explicit bounding-box baseline. Reported gains (>40% in lift success, shake survival, force resistance) derive directly from those trials rather than from any derivation, fitted parameter, or self-referential prediction. No equations, uniqueness theorems, ansatzes, or self-citations are invoked to support the central empirical claims. The work is self-contained against the stated baseline and physical test conditions.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

The paper is purely algorithmic and empirical with no mathematical derivations, free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; it relies on the standard Ferrari-Canny grasp quality metric and physical hardware testing.

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