cs.ROMar 16, 2026

AeroGrab: A Unified Framework for Aerial Grasping in Cluttered Environments

Authors: Shivansh Pratap SinghNaveen Sudheer NairSamaksh UjjawalSarthak MishraSoham PatilRishabh Dev YadavSpandan Roy

Organizations: Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad, India. · Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK.

Abstract

Reliable aerial grasping in cluttered environments remains challenging due to occlusions and collision risks. Existing aerial manipulation pipelines largely rely on centroid-based grasping and lack integration between the grasp pose generation models, active exploration, and language-level task specification, resulting in the absence of a complete end-to-end system. In this work, we present an integrated pipeline for reliable aerial grasping in cluttered environments. Given a scene and a language instruction, the system identifies the target object and actively explores it to gain better views of the object. During exploration, a grasp generation network predicts multiple 6-DoF grasp candidates for each view. Each candidate is evaluated using a collision-aware feasibility framework, and the overall best grasp is selected and executed using standard trajectory generation and control methods. Experiments in cluttered real-world scenarios demonstrate robust and reliable grasp execution, highlighting the effectiveness of combining active perception with feasibility-aware grasp selection for aerial manipulation.

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