CategoriesDomestic robots On the Utility of Robotics in Developing Countries Posted onAugust 19, 2020October 14, 2020 Motion. Bending. Motion Bending. The ability to harness the power and dynamics of motion in performing useful tasks is arguably … Continue ReadingOn the Utility of Robotics in Developing Countries
CategoriesDomestic robots On the realization of the dream of domestic assistant robots Posted onFebruary 9, 2020February 25, 2020 My fascination about the idea of domestic assistant robots began when I first watched Meet the Robinsons on a Cathode … Continue ReadingOn the realization of the dream of domestic assistant robots
CategoriesDomestic robots On Sequential Scene Understanding and Manipulation Posted onFebruary 5, 2020February 16, 2020 While cheerily performing their chores at home, domestic-assistant robots will often come across a clutter of empty detergent containers, the … Continue ReadingOn Sequential Scene Understanding and Manipulation
CategoriesDomestic robots On Semantic Robot Programming for Goal-Directed Manipulation in Cluttered Scenes Posted onJanuary 15, 2020February 16, 2020 In robotics research, numerous ways of communicating a goal to a robot have been explored. Prominent among them is communication … Continue ReadingOn Semantic Robot Programming for Goal-Directed Manipulation in Cluttered Scenes
CategoriesDomestic robots Robot ‘learns’ drink-pouring skills Posted onMarch 24, 2019April 5, 2019 03/24/2019 Introduction RASCAPP[1] is a mobile manipulator robot I built by first stripping off an electric wheelchair down to its … Continue ReadingRobot ‘learns’ drink-pouring skills
CategoriesDomestic robots Task and Motion Planning [Paper Review] Combined Task and Motion Planning Through an Extensible Planner-Independent Interface Layer Posted onMarch 16, 2019April 5, 2019 03/16/2019 Work by Siddharth Srivastava, Eugene Fang, Lorenzo Riano, Rohan Chitnis, Stuart Russell and Pieter Abbeel Link to paper: http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pabbeel/papers/2014-ICRA-hierarchical-planning.pdf They … Continue Reading[Paper Review] Combined Task and Motion Planning Through an Extensible Planner-Independent Interface Layer
CategoriesDomestic robots On Learning to Guide Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) Posted onMarch 14, 2019March 16, 2019 03/15/2019 Task and Motion planning involves reasoning from a high-level objective, like cleaning a kitchen, down to geometry, physics and … Continue ReadingOn Learning to Guide Task and Motion Planning (TAMP)
CategoriesDomestic robots Creating Cartbot – a 3DOF mobile-manipulator robot Posted onJanuary 15, 2019May 2, 2019 01/19/2019 Prof. William Messner, Kentaro Barhydt and I decided to use hoverboard wheels as the motors to drive the cart. … Continue ReadingCreating Cartbot – a 3DOF mobile-manipulator robot
CategoriesDomestic robots Setting up SLAM for RASCAPP robot Posted onDecember 26, 2018January 19, 2019 SLAM: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, is a suite of algorithms and software systems that enable a mobile robot to localize … Continue ReadingSetting up SLAM for RASCAPP robot
CategoriesDomestic robots Self-adaptive whole-body manipulation for correcting failed robot grasps Posted onDecember 21, 2018January 23, 2019 30% of the time, the mobile manipulator robot occasionally misses its target when trying to grasp an object. A potential … Continue ReadingSelf-adaptive whole-body manipulation for correcting failed robot grasps
