6 papers
ErgoSurf: Ergodic Control for the Coverage of Unknown Surfaces
Stefan Schneyer, Timo Bachmann, Maged Iskandar +4
Contact-centric tasks on surfaces, ranging from inspection and cleaning to sanding and polishing, require robots to systematically cover the surface while maintaining stable contac…
Passive Variable Impedance For Shared Control
Maximilian Mühlbauer, Nepomuk Werner, Ribin Balachandran +4
Shared Control methods often use impedance control to track target poses in a robotic manipulator. The guidance behavior of such controllers is shaped by the used stiffness gains,…
CLASP: Language-Driven Robot Skill Selection and Composition using Task-Parameterized Learning
Markus Knauer, Valentin Gieraths, Tai Mai +4
Enabling robots to understand and execute tasks from natural language commands while maintaining data efficiency remains challenging. Foundation models such as vision-language-acti…
Locomotion of an Elastic Snake Robot via Natural Dynamics
Tristan Ehlert, Arne Sachtler, Annika Schmidt +2
Nature suggests that exploiting the elasticities and natural dynamics of robotic systems could increase their locomotion efficiency. Prior work on elastic snake robots supports thi…
IROSA: Interactive Robot Skill Adaptation using Natural Language
Markus Knauer, Samuel Bustamante, Thomas Eiband +3
Foundation models have demonstrated impressive capabilities across diverse domains, while imitation learning provides principled methods for robot skill adaptation from limited dat…
Are Foundation Models the Route to Full-Stack Transfer in Robotics?
Freek Stulp, Samuel Bustamante, João Silvério +3
In humans and robots alike, transfer learning occurs at different levels of abstraction, from high-level linguistic transfer to low-level transfer of motor skills. In this article,…