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A small set of human grasps can teach robots which contact modes and wrist starts to try, so force-closure optimization spans pinches to two-hand grasps across object scales.

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load-bearing objection Solid systems paper: geometry-aware mode/wrist prior from 1.8K human grasps beats scale heuristics for multi-mode dexterous synthesis and ships a usable 3.2M dataset. the 3 major comments →

arxiv 2607.04554 v1 pith:Y4P5WKEW submitted 2026-07-06 cs.RO

HUGS: Guiding Unified Dexterous Grasp Synthesis Across Modes and Scales via Learned Human Priors

Mingrui Yu , Yongpeng Jiang , Yongyi Jia , Kangchen Lv , Li Huang , Yi Ren , Xiang Li This is my paper
classification cs.RO
keywords dexterous graspinghuman priorsgrasp synthesiscontact modesforce closurebimanual graspinggrasp dataset
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Dexterous robot hands face a huge search space when grasping objects from tiny screws to large boxes, because valid contact patterns range from two-finger pinches to coordinated two-hand grasps. Prior synthesis pipelines usually fix contact modes and wrist starts with hand-crafted scale rules, which either waste attempts on impossible modes or miss valid ones. This paper argues that human preference for how to approach an object can be learned as a reusable object-conditioned prior over only contact mode and wrist pose, rather than by copying each human grasp onto a robot hand. Trained on about 1.8 thousand human grasps of 304 objects, that prior allocates optimization budget and initial wrist poses; robot-specific force-closure optimization then fills in finger joints and refines the grasp. The result is millions of validated multi-mode robot grasps and generators that, in real scenes, pick suitable modes from screws to large containers.

Core claim

An object-conditioned human prior over discrete contact modes and wrist initializations, learned from a compact multi-mode human grasp set, guides force-closure-aware robot optimization so that synthesis covers modes from two-finger to bimanual grasps across object half-diagonals of roughly 2–30 cm more successfully and more usefully than scale-only heuristics, without one-to-one retargeting of each human demonstration.

What carries the argument

Object-conditioned human prior π(c|o) and π(T0|c,o): a geometry-aware model that predicts preferred contact modes (Single-Two, Single-Three, Single-Full, Both-Full) and mode-conditioned wrist starts, then allocates synthesis budget and seeds a bi-level force-closure optimizer for the robot hand.

Load-bearing premise

That four coarse contact modes and wrist poses learned from a few hundred everyday objects, after one scalar hand-size rescale, give good enough global guidance for force-closure optimization on new shapes and robot hands.

What would settle it

On a held-out set of objects whose shapes and scales sit far outside the human collection, compare success rate, mode coverage, and downstream generator quality when optimization is guided by the learned prior versus matched-budget scale heuristics; if the prior no longer improves success or mode allocation, the central claim fails.

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If this is right

  • Large multi-mode robot grasp datasets can be grown from limited human data instead of exhaustive human retargeting or pure heuristics.
  • Synthesis budget can shift smoothly with geometry, not only with a single size number, raising success while still covering several modes per object.
  • Generators trained on the resulting data can choose two-finger versus full-hand versus bimanual grasps at deployment when clutter or load changes.
  • The same prior-plus-optimization pipeline can be transferred across anthropomorphic hands by a human-to-robot scale factor and embodiment mapping of the wrist frame.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If high-level mode-and-wrist priors are the transferable core, denser contact maps may be less necessary for stable lifting synthesis and more of a next step for functional use.
  • The same budget-allocation idea could extend to environment-aware modes (top-only in clutter, dual-hand under heavy load) if the prior were conditioned on free space or task force requirements.
  • Compact, deliberately multi-mode human capture may be more leverageable for robotics than larger single-mode reconstruction datasets that lack wrist and mode diversity.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 6 minor

Summary. HUGS proposes a human-prior-guided pipeline for unified multi-mode, multi-scale dexterous grasp synthesis. From a compact self-collected dataset (HUGS-Human: 1.8K grasps, 304 objects), the authors learn an object-conditioned prior over four discrete contact modes and index-MCP wrist poses, then use that prior to allocate optimization budget and initialize force-closure-aware bi-level optimization (Eqs. 1–3). Under a fixed budget of B=40 attempts per scene, they synthesize 3.2M validated robot grasps over 157K rescaled DGN2k scenes (half-diagonals 2–30 cm), spanning Single-Two through Both-Full modes. Systematic ablations against scale-heuristic baselines (Heur-Fix/Single/Multi) and a wrist-prior-only variant (HUGS-Single), held-out mode-prediction metrics (Table 1), LEAP-hand transfer, distillation of online generators (Fig. 6), and qualitative real-world LEAP demos support the claim that geometry-aware human priors improve the success–coverage trade-off relative to hand-crafted heuristics.

Significance. Unified synthesis across contact modes and object scales is a genuine bottleneck for large-scale dexterous grasp datasets and for training generators that must choose modes at deployment. The Human-Prior + Robot-Optimization framing is a clear conceptual contribution: high-level human preferences (modes, wrists) guide search without one-to-one retargeting, while force-closure optimization enforces robot kinematics and physics. Strengths include a released multi-mode human dataset with broad scale coverage, controlled ablations that isolate mode allocation vs. wrist initialization, cross-embodiment synthesis (Shadow and LEAP), and a large multi-mode synthetic corpus. If the claims hold under the stated scope, the work is a solid systems and data contribution for the dexterous-grasping community and a useful template for prior-guided analytical synthesis.

major comments (3)
  1. Abstract and Sec. 4.4 state that models “autonomously select appropriate contact modes in the real world,” but Appendix A.5 describes sampling 25 grasps per mode and manually selecting three candidates for execution, and explicitly frames the demos as non-quantitative “deployment potential.” This is a load-bearing mismatch for the real-world claim. Please align the abstract/intro/conclusion wording with the actual protocol (e.g., “mode-aware candidates that support adaptive selection under deployment constraints”) or report quantitative success rates with a fully automatic selection rule.
  2. Sec. 3.4 and A.3 introduce two free parameters that are central to embodiment transfer and bimanual success: the human-to-robot hand scale ratio (1.0 Shadow, 1.4 LEAP) used when querying the prior, and the 10 cm palm-outward initialization offset for bimanual cases. Results in Fig. 4/16 and the LEAP distillation (Fig. 18) depend on these choices, yet no sensitivity study is reported. A short ablation (e.g., ratio ∈ {1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6}; offset ∈ {0, 5, 10} cm) on success rate and penetration failures (D.1) is needed to support the claim that the prior generalizes across hand sizes rather than being tuned per embodiment.
  3. Table 1 evaluates contact-mode prediction only on held-out HUGS-Human objects, while synthesis (Sec. 4.2, Fig. 4) is run on rescaled DGN2k meshes. The central efficiency claim rests on the prior allocating budget correctly on the synthesis distribution. Please report mode-prediction quality (KL / soft precision-recall, or at least predicted mode histograms vs. successful modes) on a held-out subset of the DGN2k scenes, or otherwise show that the geometry-aware advantage over scale rules transfers to the objects used for the 3.2M synthesis.
minor comments (6)
  1. Fig. 4(c): HUGS shows lower first-PC explained-variance ratio (more concentrated poses). The text correctly notes that heuristic diversity partly comes from unnatural wrists (Fig. 5), but the abstract’s “diversity” language should consistently distinguish contact-mode coverage from wrist-pose dispersion to avoid over-reading Fig. 4(c) as a pure win.
  2. Eq. (2) and Sec. 3.1: the factorization π(Q,T|T0,c,o)π(T0|c,o)π(c|o) is clear; briefly state whether π(c|o) is treated as a soft budget prior or hard mode selection at inference (A.3 suggests soft allocation with a per-mode cap Bc=20).
  3. A.1 / Fig. 11: exclusion of Both-Three is reasonable given rarity; a one-sentence note in the main Sec. 3.1 mode list would help readers who only skim the appendix.
  4. A.3 scale-dependent density d(s)=d0(s/s0)^−2 is a sensible mass-control choice; state the resulting mass range in the main evaluation section so readers can interpret lift success across 2–30 cm without opening the appendix.
  5. Related Work: UltraDexGrasp and BiDexGrasp are cited; a short explicit comparison of multi-mode-per-object coverage vs. scale-tied single modes would sharpen the novelty claim relative to concurrent synthetic multi-mode work.
  6. Typos / polish: “arXiv:2607.04554v1” date line is fine; ensure consistent spelling of “bimanual” vs. “dual-hand,” and that Fig. 1 caption matches the four-mode taxonomy used in Sec. 3.1.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: human prior is trained and held-out-evaluated independently of physics-validated robot synthesis success.

full rationale

HUGS trains an object-conditioned prior over four discrete contact modes and index-MCP wrist poses on a self-collected 1.8K-grasp human dataset, then uses the prior only to allocate optimization budget and initialize wrists for a separate force-closure QP (Eqs. 1–3) whose success is measured by independent MuJoCo lift/stability/collision criteria on DGN2k scenes. Table 1 evaluates mode prediction on held-out HUGS-Human objects against scale-rule baselines derived from the same training statistics; Figs. 4/16 compare synthesis success under identical B=40 budgets against Heur-Fix/Single/Multi; HUGS-Single isolates the wrist prior; distillation (Figs. 6/18) and real-world demos are downstream uses of the validated synthetic set. No equation equates a claimed prediction to a fitted quantity by construction, no uniqueness theorem is imported from overlapping authors, and no ansatz is smuggled via self-citation. The four-mode abstraction and compact human set are acknowledged limitations (Sec. 5), not circular reductions. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained and externally falsifiable.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

5 free parameters · 4 axioms · 2 invented entities

The central claim rests on standard rigid-body contact physics, a hand-chosen four-mode taxonomy, a compact self-collected human corpus treated as representative of human preference, and several engineering hyperparameters (attempt budgets, scale ratios, diffusion steps). No new physical entities are postulated; the invented pieces are the prior model and the discrete mode abstraction used as synthesis budget.

free parameters (5)
  • Total optimization budget B and per-mode cap Bc = B=40, Bc=20
    B=40 attempts per scene, Bc≤20; chosen by authors and directly controls reported success counts.
  • Human-to-robot hand scale ratio = 1.0 / 1.4
    Object point cloud is rescaled by 1.0 (Shadow) or 1.4 (LEAP) before querying the prior; a free embodiment-specific constant.
  • Bimanual palm-outward initialization offset = 10 cm
    10 cm offset applied to mitigate penetration on large objects; ad-hoc engineering choice.
  • Diffusion training/inference steps and noise schedule = 128 / 10
    128 training steps, 10-step DDIM sampler, cosine schedule; standard but free design choices that affect prior quality.
  • Scale-dependent object density d(s)=d0(s/s0)^-2 = d0=700, s0=0.06
    Simulation mass model with d0=700 kg/m3, s0=0.06 m; chosen so mass grows roughly linearly with scale.
axioms (4)
  • domain assumption Force closure under point contact with Coulomb friction is a sufficient proxy for stable lifting grasps.
    Eq. 1–3 and MuJoCo lift criteria; standard in analytical grasp synthesis but ignores dynamics, compliance, and functional intent.
  • ad hoc to paper Four discrete contact modes (Single-Two/Three/Full, Both-Full) adequately cover the dominant human strategies executable by current dexterous hands.
    Sec. 3.1; Both-Three was collected but discarded for rarity (Fig. 11). Taxonomy is a design choice, not derived.
  • domain assumption Human grasp preferences over modes and wrists, after a global hand-scale correction, transfer usefully to robot kinematics via force-closure refinement.
    Core methodological premise of Sec. 3.3–3.4; supported empirically but not guaranteed for out-of-distribution geometry.
  • ad hoc to paper A compact 1.8K-grasp / 304-object human corpus is representative enough to learn a generalizable object-conditioned prior.
    Sec. 3.2 and Limitations; authors acknowledge degradation on far OOD objects.
invented entities (2)
  • Object-conditioned human prior π(c|o), π(T0|c,o) over four modes and index-MCP wrists independent evidence
    purpose: Allocate synthesis budget and supply wrist initializations without manual heuristics or one-to-one retargeting.
    The learned distribution is the paper’s central technical object; independent evidence is the held-out KL/precision/recall and downstream synthesis gains.
  • HUGS-Human dataset (304 objects, 1.8K multi-mode grasps) no independent evidence
    purpose: Provide training signal for the prior across scales and modes missing from prior human datasets.
    New resource; independent evidence will be public release and reuse by others.

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Dexterous grasping across diverse object scales requires contact modes ranging from two-finger pinches to bimanual grasps. Existing dexterous grasp synthesis methods reduce the high-dimensional optimization space with manually designed expected contacts and initialization heuristics, which struggle to balance synthesis success rate and diversity. We present HUGS (Human-prior-guided Unified Dexterous Grasp Synthesis), a human-prior-guided framework for unified dexterous grasp synthesis across modes and scales. Instead of directly retargeting human demonstrations, HUGS learns an object-conditioned human prior that captures human grasp preferences and guides downstream force-closure-aware optimization. The prior is trained on a compact self-collected human grasp dataset with 1.8K grasps over 304 objects, providing broad coverage of object scales and contact modes. During synthesis, HUGS adaptively proposes contact modes and wrist initializations, substantially improving the balance between contact-mode coverage and synthesis success rate over heuristic-based methods. With HUGS, we synthesize 3.2M robotic grasps over 157K scenes, spanning object half-diagonal lengths from 2 cm to 30 cm and modes from two-finger to bimanual grasps. Models trained on the synthesized dataset autonomously select appropriate contact modes in the real world, enabling grasping from screws to large boxes.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.04554 by Kangchen Lv, Li Huang, Mingrui Yu, Xiang Li, Yi Ren, Yongpeng Jiang, Yongyi Jia.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Human priors guide scalable dexterous grasp synthesis across modes and scales. HUGS learns an object-conditioned human prior from a compact self-collected dataset to predict preferred contact modes and wrist initializations. Guided by this prior, force-closure-aware optimization synthesizes diverse and stable grasps ranging from two-finger pinches to bimanual grasps. Abstract: Dexterous grasping across div… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Statistics of HUGS-Human Dataset. (a) Object-count distribution, compared with existing human grasp datasets (OakInk: only real-world captured objects; log-scaled y-axis and power-scaled x-axis, with absolute-value labels). (b) Average number of HUGS-Human grasps per object. (c) Contact-mode distribution in HUGS-Human. Consequently, optimization quality largely depends on initializing c and T , while optim… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Overview of HUGS. HUGS learns an object-conditioned human prior from demonstrations with geometry, wrist poses, and contact modes. During synthesis, it predicts contact-mode distribu￾tions and wrist initializations for unseen objects, transfers them to robot hands, and optimizes force closure under feasibility constraints to synthesize large-scale robot grasps across modes and scales. 3.3 Object-Conditione… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Contact-mode allocation and synthesis success across object scales. (a) Averaged synthesis budgets and success counts per scene. (b) Overall synthesis success rate across object scales. (c) Pose diversity measured by the explained-variance ratio of the first principal component. yielding a much higher success rate than Heur-Multi. Thus, HUGS consistently outperforms all baselines [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Heuristic wrist-pose sampling produces unnatural grasps [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Distilling from synthesized grasps. (a) Precision-recall curve for contact-mode availability prediction. (b) Grasp success rate, comparing generators trained on HUGS and Heur-Multi data. 7 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Real-world grasping demonstrations on LEAP Hands. (a) Cross-scale grasping over diverse objects. (b) Different mode selection under different deployment constraints. availability is accurately predicted, reaching a best F1 score of 0.934 in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Hardware setup for collecting the HUGS-Human dataset. Four RealSense D435 cameras are used for hand-object mesh reconstruction. Camera views #0 and #1 serve as the primary views, while auxiliary views #2 and #3 are used to reduce single-view depth ambiguity for each hand. Annotation Details. The dataset annotation includes hand-object mesh reconstruction and discrete contact-mode annotation. We use camera … view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Visualization of the HUGS-Human dataset. Representative samples are shown with object scale increasing from top to bottom. Each sample includes RGB images from all four views, along with the rendered hand-object mesh reconstruction. 14 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Visualization of representative cases of multiple grasps collected with a single object. For the smaller object #1, we collect single-handed grasps with varying numbers of fingers and object poses. For the larger objects #2 and #3, both single-handed and two-handed grasps are collected. 15 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Contact-mode distribution when including Both-Three. The Both-Three mode accounts for only a negligible fraction of the collected demonstrations. A.2 Human Prior Training Details Definition of Index MCP Frame. To make the human wrist prior less sensitive to embodiment￾specific wrist definitions, we define the predicted pose using an index MCP frame, as shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Its translation is the position of the index metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joint, and its rotation follows the dorsal-hand wrist orientation. This representation provides a stable hand-level pose that can be mapped to different robot hands during synthesis [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Ablation of the bimanual force-closure objective. We compare using only the per-hand force-closure terms (Single-Only), only the global bimanual force-closure term (Bimanual-Only), and their combination (Bimanual+Single). Without considering bimanual force closure, the grasp success rate drops significantly [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_13.png] view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Qualitative examples of bimanual force-closure ablation. Using only the global bimanual term (Bimanual-Only) can produce degenerate contacts, where each hand touches the object only weakly or at fingertip extremities. Combining global and per-hand terms (Bimanual+Single) yields more coordinated bimanual grasps while maintaining better individual hand contact quality. non-contact pregrasp pose in a final s… view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Real-world hardware setup and customized LEAP fingertip. Our hardware setup consists of three RealSense D435 cameras arranged approximately 120◦ apart for object point-cloud reconstruction. Compared with the original LEAP fingertip, our customized fingertip has a smoother geometry and is covered with a silicone sleeve to improve contact stability. for inter-camera extrinsics, and we further perform hand-e… view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Contact-mode allocation and synthesis success on the LEAP Hand. (a) Averaged synthesis budgets and success counts per scene. (b) Overall synthesis success rate across object scales. (c) Pose diversity measured by the explained-variance ratio of the first principal component. set, we select the real surface candidate whose translation is closest to this mirrored target. This procedure only pairs translatio… view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Synthesized LEAP Hand grasps across object scales and contact modes. 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Recall (%) 40 60 80 100 Precision (%) F1=0.965 (a) Contact Mode Availability Prediction PR curve Best F1, Thres=0.60 Thres=0.90 2 3 4 6 8 11 13 16 19 23 26 30 Object scale (cm) 0 25 50 75 100 Success rate (%) ↑ (b) Grasp Success Rate Across Object Scales HUGS Heur-Multi [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_… view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Distilling from synthesized LEAP grasps. (a) Precision-recall curve for contact-mode availability prediction. (b) Grasp success rate, comparing generators trained on HUGS and Heur￾Multi LEAP grasp data. LEAP Distillation Results [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Predicted contact-mode distributions from the human prior. Each example shows an object point cloud together with the predicted probability vector over contact modes, ordered as [Single-Two, Single-Three, Single-Full, Both-Full]. The coordinate axes have a length of 0.1 m [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Object-conditioned wrist-pose samples for different contact modes. The examples show that the learned pose prior predicts wrist-pose distributions conditioned jointly on object geometry and contact mode. For a given object geometry, different contact modes favor different approach regions: in Case 1, Both-Full admits both top and side bimanual approaches, while Single￾Full mainly concentrates on top-down … view at source ↗
Figure 21
Figure 21. Figure 21: From human prior samples to optimized robot grasps. Left: contact-mode and wrist-pose samples predicted by the human prior for each object. Middle: robot wrist initializations obtained by transferring the prior samples to the robot hand. Right: final robot grasps after force￾closure-aware optimization. 25 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_21.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Snapshots of real-world grasp on objects #1–#12. Objects are approximately ordered by increasing scale from top to bottom. Some objects allow only one feasible contact mode, whereas others allow two. For each feasible contact mode, we execute three distinct grasps. 26 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_22.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Snapshots of real-world grasp on objects #13–#23. 27 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_23.png] view at source ↗
Figure 24
Figure 24. Figure 24: summarizes typical failure modes observed during human-prior-guided grasp synthesis. Although the learned prior provides useful global guidance, it remains a coarse prior. First, the human prior and the optimization objective do not explicitly model functional grasp awareness, so the pipeline may produce grasps that are geometrically plausible but functionally weak. Second, the contact-mode prior can some… view at source ↗
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Figure 25. Figure 25: Failure distribution of the distilled grasp generator on the Shadow Hand. Left: number of generated and successful grasps per scene across object scales and contact modes. Right: distribution of failure causes for each contact mode at each object scale, ordered as Single-Two, Single￾Three, Single-Full, and Both-Full. Failures are categorized as position error (unsuccessful lifting), rotation error (excess… view at source ↗
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Figure 26. Figure 26: Typical failure modes of real-world grasping. (a) Low-quality grasp generation may produce loose or unstable grasps, suggesting that the current grasp generation network can be further improved. (b) Inaccurate calibration, segmentation, and depth sensing reduce the reliability of reconstructed point clouds, resulting in grasps that miss the object. This issue is particularly pronounced for small objects. … view at source ↗

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