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TransGraspNet: Physically and Geometrically Consistent Manipulation of Transparent Labware

Authors
Hailing Hu, Mingyi Zhu, Yiquan An...
Categories
cs.RO
arXiv
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29567v1
PDF
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.29567v1

Brief

TransGraspNet targets safe manipulation of transparent laboratory glassware by jointly enforcing boundary, surface, and physics consistency across perception, depth reconstruction, and grasp planning. Unlike prior pipelines that optimize stages independently, it uses contour priors, normal-preserving depth reconstruction, and wrench-aware grasp refinement. Evaluation on benchmarks, a dedicated dataset, and a real robot shows improved geometric fidelity, robust cluttered-scene grasping, high success rates, and zero spillage; only the abstract was available for this summary.

Why it matters

TransGraspNet (Hu et al., arXiv:2607.29567v1, 2026-07-31) enforces three coupled consistency principles—boundary consistency (reliable object contours), surface consistency (preserve geometric fidelity and accurate surface normals), and physics consistency (centroid alignment and wrench-space stability)—to close the perception-to-execution gap for transparent labware manipulation.

Key details

  • Evaluated on public benchmarks, a dedicated transparent glassware dataset, and a real robotic platform, TransGraspNet yields improved boundary quality and surface-normal fidelity, demonstrates strong task-level performance in cluttered transparent scenes, achieves high grasp success rates, and reports zero spillage during high-speed liquid transport.
Source evidence

Abstract

Manipulating transparent laboratory glassware that contains liquid is inherently safety-critical: even small geometric errors can cause unstable grasps and hazardous spillage. Although recent progress has been made in transparent object perception and robotic grasping, most existing systems optimize detection, depth reconstruction, and grasp planning independently, which leads to cross-stage inconsistency imperfect boundaries induce depth bleeding, distorted surfaces corrupt normal estimation, and task agnostic grasp scoring yields tilted or off-center grasps that fail under dynamic motion. In this paper, we propose TransGraspNet, a geometry physics consistent framework that explicitly enforces consistency from perception to execution through three coupled principles: boundary consistency to produce structurally reliable object contours as downstream priors, surface consistency to preserve geometric fidelity and surface normal accuracy during depth reconstruction, and physics consistency to refine grasp selection with centroid alignment and wrench-space stability for upright and dynamically robust manipulation. We evaluate TransGraspNet on public benchmarks, a dedicated transparent glassware dataset, and a real robotic platform. The results show improved boundary quality and surface normal fidelity, and demonstrate strong task-level performance in cluttered transparent scenes. Most importantly, the proposed system achieves reliable real-world operation, including high grasp success rates in clutter and zero spillage during high speed liquid transport, highlighting the effectiveness of our method.