AffordanceGrasp-R1:Leveraging Reasoning-Based Affordance Segmentation with Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Grasping

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Authors: Dingyi Zhou, Mu He, Zhuowei Fang, Xiangtong Yao, Yinlong Liu, Alois Knoll, Hu Cao
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Abstract

We introduce AffordanceGrasp-R1, a reasoning-driven affordance segmentation framework for robotic grasping that combines a chain-of-thought (CoT) cold-start strategy with reinforcement learning to enhance deduction and spatial grounding. In addition, we redesign the grasping pipeline to be more context-aware by generating grasp candidates from the global scene point cloud and subsequently filtering them using instruction-conditioned affordance masks. Extensive experiments demonstrate that AffordanceGrasp-R1 consistently outperforms state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods on benchmark datasets, and real-world robotic grasping evaluations further validate its robustness and generalization under complex language-conditioned manipulation scenarios.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Robot Manipulation and Learning Reinforcement Learning in Robotics 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis

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Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
3 February 2026
Document type
Preprint