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Stéphane Doncieux

8 accepted papers

2026

Placeit! a Framework for Learning Robot Object Placement Skills

ICRA 2026poster

Robotics research has made significant strides in learning, yet mastering basic skills like object placement remains a fundamental challenge. A key bottleneck is the acquisition of large-scale, high-quality data, which is often a manual and laborious process. Inspired by Graspit!, a foundational wor…

2025

Enhancing Robustness in Language-Driven Robotics: A Modular Approach to Failure Reduction

IROS 2025

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to significant progress in robotics, enabling embodied agents to understand and execute open-ended tasks. However, existing LLM-based approaches face limitations in grounding their outputs within the physical environment and aligning with the

Cited by 3SourceScholar
2025

Qdgset: a Large Scale Grasping Dataset Generated With Quality-Diversity

ICRA 2025

Recent advances in AI have led to significant results in robotic learning, but skills like grasping remain partially solved. Many recent works exploit synthetic grasping datasets to learn to grasp unknown objects. However, those datasets were generated using simple grasp sampling methods using prior

Cited by 3SourceScholar
2025

Task-Aware Robotic Grasping by evaluating Quality Diversity Solutions through Foundation Models

IROS 2025

Task-aware robotic grasping is a challenging problem that requires the integration of semantic understanding and geometric reasoning. This paper proposes a novel framework that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) and Quality Diversity (QD) algorithms to enable zero-shot task-conditioned grasp syn

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2024

Domain Randomization for Sim2real Transfer of Automatically Generated Grasping Datasets

ICRA 2024poster

Robotic grasping refers to making a robotic system pick an object by applying forces and torques on its surface. Many recent studies use data-driven approaches to address grasping, but the sparse reward nature of this task made the learning process challenging to bootstrap. To avoid constraining the…

Cited by 16SourcecodeScholar
2024

Speeding up 6-DoF Grasp Sampling with Quality-Diversity

IROS 2024poster

Recent advances in AI have led to significant results in robotic learning, including natural language-conditioned planning and efficient optimization of controllers using generative models. However, the interaction data remains the bottleneck for generalization. Getting data for grasping is a critic…

Cited by 3SourceScholar
2022

Automatic Acquisition of a Repertoire of Diverse Grasping Trajectories through Behavior Shaping and Novelty Search

ICRA 2022poster

Grasping a particular object may require a dedicated grasping movement that may also be specific to the robot end-effector. No generic and autonomous method does exist to generate these movements without making hypotheses on the robot or on the object. Learning methods could help to autonomously dis…

Cited by 19SourceScholar