End-to-end imitation learning avoids hand-made robot motion for approaching and grasping, but the policy must still decide which fruit to pick and where to close the gripper. Occlusion can make the policy lose the selected fruit during harvesting, and the correct closing point is difficult to infer from pixels alone.
ORIGINAL PAPER
HarvestPoint-ACT: Explicit Target Selection and Harvest-Point Conditioning for Robotic Fruit Harvesting under Occlusion
WHAT WE KNOW
This paper presents HarvestPoint-ACT, which makes both decisions explicit in perception and provides them to the policy. An instance segmentation front end with a keypoint branch predicts a mask and a harvest point for each visible fruit, where the harvest point specifies the location to close the gripper. A scheduler ranks detected candidates by occlusion and travel distance and selects one target.
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