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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…
Look No Deeper: Recognizing Places from Opposing Viewpoints under Varying Scene Appearance using Single-View Depth Estimation
Sourav Garg, Madhu Babu, Thanuja Dharmasiri +5
Visual place recognition (VPR) - the act of recognizing a familiar visual place - becomes difficult when there is extreme environmental appearance change or viewpoint change. Parti…