3 papers
cs.RO2019
Deploying the NASA Valkyrie Humanoid for IED Response: An Initial Approach and Evaluation Summary
Steven Jens Jorgensen, Michael W. Lanighan, Sylvain S. Bertrand +19
As part of a feasibility study, this paper shows the NASA Valkyrie humanoid robot performing an end-to-end improvised explosive device (IED) response task. To demonstrate and evalu…
cs.RO2017
Grasp selection analysis for two-step manipulation tasks
Ana C. Huamán Quispe
Manipulation tasks are sequential in nature. Grasp selection approaches that take into account the con- straints at each task step are critical, since they allow to both (1) Identi…
cs.RO2016
Grasping for a Purpose: Using Task Goals for Efficient Manipulation Planning
Ana Huaman Quispe, Heni Ben Amor, Henrik Christensen +1
In this paper we propose an approach for efficient grasp selection for manipulation tasks of unknown objects. Even for simple tasks such as pick-and-place, a unique solution is rar…