5 papers
Pack it in: Packing into Partially Filled Containers Through Contact
David Russell, Zisong Xu, Maximo A. Roa +1
The automation of warehouse operations is crucial for improving productivity and reducing human exposure to hazardous environments. One operation frequently performed in warehouses…
A Roadmap for Climate-Relevant Robotics Research
Alan Papalia, Charles Dawson, Laurentiu L. Anton +25
Climate change is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century, and many in the robotics community are looking for ways to contribute. This paper presents a roadmap for clima…
Zero-Shot Tree Detection and Segmentation from Aerial Forest Imagery
Michelle Chen, David Russell, Amritha Pallavoor +2
Large-scale delineation of individual trees from remote sensing imagery is crucial to the advancement of ecological research, particularly as climate change and other environmental…
Online state vector reduction during model predictive control with gradient-based trajectory optimisation
David Russell, Rafael Papallas, Mehmet Dogar
Non-prehensile manipulation in high-dimensional systems is challenging for a variety of reasons. One of the main reasons is the computationally long planning times that come with a…
Classifying geospatial objects from multiview aerial imagery using semantic meshes
David Russell, Ben Weinstein, David Wettergreen +1
Aerial imagery is increasingly used in Earth science and natural resource management as a complement to labor-intensive ground-based surveys. Aerial systems can collect overlapping…