Publications (4)
Design and Control Co-Optimization for Automated Design Iteration of Dexterous Anthropomorphic Soft Robotic Hands
Pragna Mannam, Xingyu Liu, Ding Zhao +2
We automate soft robotic hand design iteration by co-optimizing design and control policy for dexterous manipulation skills in simulation. Our design iteration pipeline combines ge…
ManipulationNet: An Infrastructure for Benchmarking Real-World Robot Manipulation with Physical Skill Challenges and Embodied Multimodal Reasoning
Yiting Chen, Kenneth Kimble, Edward H. Adelson +20
Dexterous manipulation enables robots to purposefully alter the physical world, transforming them from passive observers into active agents in unstructured environments. This capab…
Designing Anthropomorphic Soft Hands through Interaction
Pragna Mannam, Kenneth Shaw, Dominik Bauer +3
Modeling and simulating soft robot hands can aid in design iteration for complex and high degree-of-freedom (DoF) morphologies. This can be further supplemented by iterating on the…
Vision-guided Autonomous Dual-arm Extraction Robot for Bell Pepper Harvesting
Kshitij Madhav Bhat, Tom Gao, Abhishek Mathur +4
Agricultural robotics has emerged as a critical solution to the labor shortages and rising costs associated with manual crop harvesting. Bell pepper harvesting, in particular, is a…