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Material Recognition via Heat Transfer Given Ambiguous Initial Conditions
Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Henry M. Clever, Joshua Wade +1
Humans and robots can recognize materials with distinct thermal effusivities by making physical contact and observing temperatures during heat transfer. This works well with room t…
Grasping with Chopsticks: Combating Covariate Shift in Model-free Imitation Learning for Fine Manipulation
Liyiming Ke, Jingqiang Wang, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee +2
Billions of people use chopsticks, a simple yet versatile tool, for fine manipulation of everyday objects. The small, curved, and slippery tips of chopsticks pose a challenge for p…
Leveraging Post Hoc Context for Faster Learning in Bandit Settings with Applications in Robot-Assisted Feeding
Ethan K. Gordon, Sumegh Roychowdhury, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee +2
Autonomous robot-assisted feeding requires the ability to acquire a wide variety of food items. However, it is impossible for such a system to be trained on all types of food in ex…
Telemanipulation with Chopsticks: Analyzing Human Factors in User Demonstrations
Liyiming Ke, Ajinkya Kamat, Jingqiang Wang +3
Chopsticks constitute a simple yet versatile tool that humans have used for thousands of years to perform a variety of challenging tasks ranging from food manipulation to surgery.…
Adaptive Robot-Assisted Feeding: An Online Learning Framework for Acquiring Previously Unseen Food Items
Ethan K. Gordon, Xiang Meng, Matt Barnes +2
A successful robot-assisted feeding system requires bite acquisition of a wide variety of food items. It must adapt to changing user food preferences under uncertain visual and phy…
Robot-Assisted Feeding: Generalizing Skewering Strategies across Food Items on a Realistic Plate
Ryan Feng, Youngsun Kim, Gilwoo Lee +5
A robot-assisted feeding system must successfully acquire many different food items. A key challenge is the wide variation in the physical properties of food, demanding diverse acq…