Grasp detection requires flexibility to handle objects of various shapes without relying on prior object knowledge, while also offering intuitive, user-guided control. In this paper, we introduce GraspSAM, an innovative extension of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) designed for prompt-driven and category-agnostic grasp detection. Unlike previous methods, which are often limited by small-scale training data, Grasp-SAM leverages SAM's large-scale training and prompt-based segmentation capabilities to efficiently support both target-object and category-agnostic grasping. By utilizing adapters, learnable token embeddings, and a lightweight modified decoder, GraspSAM requires minimal fine-tuning to integrate object segmentation and grasp prediction into a unified frame-work. Our model achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance across multiple datasets, including Jacquard, Grasp-Anything, and Grasp-Anything++. Extensive experiments demonstrate GraspSAM's flexibility in handling different types of prompts (such as points, boxes, and language), highlighting its robustness and effectiveness in real-world robotic applications. Robot demonstrations, additional results, and code can be found at https://gistailab.github.io/GraspSAM/.

Instance-aware segmentation of unseen objects is essential for a robotic system in an unstructured environment. Although previous works achieved encouraging results, they were limited to segmenting the only visible regions of unseen objects. For robotic manipulation in a cluttered scene, amodal perception is required to handle the occluded objects behind others. This paper addresses Unseen Object Amodal Instance Segmentation (UOAIS) to detect 1) visible masks, 2) amodal masks, and 3) occlusions on unseen object instances. For this, we propose a Hierarchical Occlusion Modeling (HOM) scheme designed to reason about the occlusion by assigning a hierarchy to a feature fusion and prediction order. We evaluated our method on three benchmarks (tabletop, indoors, and bin environments) and achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. Robot demos for picking up occluded objects, codes, and datasets are available at https://sites.google.com/view/uoais.

In this paper, we present a deep learning-based approach to detect and identify multiple fasteners from various camera poses. To distinguish fasteners of similar size and shape from each other, we propose a part identifier network and simple visual calibration method using a reference image. Though the camera poses changes, the model can infer the actual scale of detected parts by just capturing a reference object at once. Also, we present a synthetic data generation pipeline that adopts domain randomization and can automatically generate a training set for various fastener identification. In the experiment, we evaluated the real-world performance of the fully synthetically trained model and showed that it could be directly applied to real-world part identification. This indicates that our approach has the potential to accelerate the model retraining procedure for various part identification tasks since data acquisition requires almost no cost.

Segmentation of unseen industrial parts is essential for autonomous industrial systems. However, industrial components are texture-less, reflective, and often found in cluttered and unstructured environments with heavy occlusion, which makes it more challenging to deal with unseen objects. To tackle this problem, we present a synthetic data generation pipeline that randomizes textures via domain randomization to focus on the shape information. In addition, we propose an RGB-D Fusion Mask R-CNN with a confidence map estimator, which exploits reliable depth information in multiple feature levels. We transferred the trained model to real-world scenarios and evaluated its performance by making comparisons with baselines and ablation studies. We demonstrate that our methods, which use only synthetic data, could be effective solutions for unseen industrial components segmentation.