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Demonstrating Cloth Folding to Robots: Design and Evaluation of a 2D and a 3D User Interface
Benjamin Waymouth, Akansel Cosgun, Rhys Newbury +4
An appropriate user interface to collect human demonstration data for deformable object manipulation has been mostly overlooked in the literature. We present an interaction design…
Supportive Actions for Manipulation in Human-Robot Coworker Teams
Shray Bansal, Rhys Newbury, Wesley Chan +5
The increasing presence of robots alongside humans, such as in human-robot teams in manufacturing, gives rise to research questions about the kind of behaviors people prefer in the…
Learning to Place Objects onto Flat Surfaces in Upright Orientations
Rhys Newbury, Kerry He, Akansel Cosgun +1
We study the problem of placing a grasped object on an empty flat surface in an upright orientation, such as placing a cup on its bottom rather than on its side. We aim to find the…
Embracing Contact: Pushing Multiple Objects with Robot's Forearm
Akansel Cosgun, Luke Ditria, Shayne D'Lima +1
Grasping is the dominant approach for robot manipulation, but only a single object can be grasped at a time. Nonprehensile manipulation offers richer set of interactions, however s…
Practical Robot Learning from Demonstrations using Deep End-to-End Training
Akansel Cosgun, Thomas Rowntree, Ian Reid +1
Robots need to learn behaviors in intuitive and practical ways for widespread deployment in human environments. To learn a robot behavior end-to-end, we train a variant of the ResN…
Learning to Take Good Pictures of People with a Robot Photographer
Rhys Newbury, Akansel Cosgun, Mehmet Koseoglu +1
We present a robotic system capable of navigating autonomously by following a line and taking good quality pictures of people. When a group of people are detected, the robot rotate…