4 papers
The Busboy Problem: Efficient Tableware Decluttering Using Consolidation and Multi-Object Grasps
Kishore Srinivas, Shreya Ganti, Rishi Parikh +4
We present the "Busboy Problem": automating an efficient decluttering of cups, bowls, and silverware from a planar surface. As grasping and transporting individual items is highly…
Can Machines Garden? Systematically Comparing the AlphaGarden vs. Professional Horticulturalists
Simeon Adebola, Rishi Parikh, Mark Presten +8
The AlphaGarden is an automated testbed for indoor polyculture farming which combines a first-order plant simulator, a gantry robot, a seed planting algorithm, plant phenotyping an…
Automated Pruning of Polyculture Plants
Mark Presten, Rishi Parikh, Shrey Aeron +6
Polyculture farming has environmental advantages but requires substantially more pruning than monoculture farming. We present novel hardware and algorithms for automated pruning. U…
Learning Switching Criteria for Sim2Real Transfer of Robotic Fabric Manipulation Policies
Satvik Sharma, Ellen Novoseller, Vainavi Viswanath +6
Simulation-to-reality transfer has emerged as a popular and highly successful method to train robotic control policies for a wide variety of tasks. However, it is often challenging…