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Accelerating Robot Learning of Contact-Rich Manipulations: A Curriculum Learning Study
Cristian C. Beltran-Hernandez, Damien Petit, Ixchel G. Ramirez-Alpizar +1
The Reinforcement Learning (RL) paradigm has been an essential tool for automating robotic tasks. Despite the advances in RL, it is still not widely adopted in the industry due to…
A Dual-Arm Robot that Manipulates Heavy Plates Cooperatively with a Vacuum Lifter
Shogo Hayakawa, Weiwei Wan, Keisuke Koyama +1
A vacuum lifter is widely used to hold and pick up large, heavy, and flat objects. Conventionally, when using a vacuum lifter, a human worker watches the state of a running vacuum…
Metal Wire Manipulation Planning for 3D Curving -- How a Low Payload Robot Can Use a Bending Machine to Bend Stiff Metal Wire
Ruishuang Liu, Weiwei Wan, Emiko Isomura +1
This paper presents a combined task and motion planner for a robot arm to carry out 3D metal wire curving tasks by collaborating with a bending machine. We assume a collaborative r…
Category-Association Based Similarity Matching for Novel Object Pick-and-Place Task
Hao Chen, Takuya Kiyokawa, Weiwei Wan +1
Robotic pick-and-place has been researched for a long time to cope with uncertainty of novel objects and changeable environments. Past works mainly focus on learning-based methods…
Assembly Planning by Recognizing a Graphical Instruction Manual
Issei Sera, Natsuki Yamanobe, Ixchel G. Ramirez-Alpizar +3
This paper proposes a robot assembly planning method by automatically reading the graphical instruction manuals design for humans. Essentially, the method generates an Assembly Tas…
Bimanual Shelf Picking Planner Based on Collapse Prediction
T. Motoda, D. Petit, W. Wan +1
In logistics warehouse, since many objects are randomly stacked on shelves, it becomes difficult for a robot to safely extract one of the objects without other objects falling from…