HandoverSim: A Simulation Framework and Benchmark for Human-to-Robot Object Handovers

We introduce a new simulation benchmark "HandoverSim" for human-to-robot object handovers. To simulate the giver's motion, we leverage a recent motion capture dataset of hand grasping of objects. We create training and evaluation environments for the receiver with standardized protocols and metrics. We analyze the performance of a set of baselines and show a correlation with a real-world evaluation.

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Chris Paxton (NVIDIA)
Yu Xiang (UT Dallas)
Tao Chen (MIT)
Maya Cakmak (University of Washington)

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