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An Open-Source, Reproducible Tensegrity Robot that can Navigate Among Obstacles
William R. Johnson, Patrick Meng, Nelson Chen +5
Tensegrity robots, composed of rigid struts and elastic tendons, provide impact resistance, low mass, and adaptability to unstructured terrain. Their compliance and complex, couple…
Demonstrating Multi-Suction Item Picking at Scale via Multi-Modal Learning of Pick Success
Che Wang, Jeroen van Baar, Chaitanya Mitash +6
This work demonstrates how autonomously learning aspects of robotic operation from sparsely-labeled, real-world data of deployed, engineered solutions at industrial scale can provi…
Learning to Optimize Package Picking for Large-Scale, Real-World Robot Induction
Shuai Li, Azarakhsh Keipour, Sicong Zhao +3
Warehouse automation plays a pivotal role in enhancing operational efficiency, minimizing costs, and improving resilience to workforce variability. While prior research has demonst…
Fully Packed and Ready to Go: High-Density, Rearrangement-Free, Grid-Based Storage and Retrieval
Tzvika Geft, Kostas Bekris, Jingjin Yu
Grid-based storage systems with uniformly shaped loads (e.g., containers, pallets, totes) are commonplace in logistics, industrial, and transportation domains. A key performance me…
Integrating Model-based Control and RL for Sim2Real Transfer of Tight Insertion Policies
Isidoros Marougkas, Dhruv Metha Ramesh, Joe H. Doerr +4
Object insertion under tight tolerances () is an important but challenging assembly task as even small errors can result in undesirable contacts. Recent effo…
PROBE: Proprioceptive Obstacle Detection and Estimation while Navigating in Clutter
Dhruv Metha Ramesh, Aravind Sivaramakrishnan, Shreesh Keskar +3
In critical applications, including search-and-rescue in degraded environments, blockages can be prevalent and prevent the effective deployment of certain sensing modalities, parti…
Kinodynamic Trajectory Following with STELA: Simultaneous Trajectory Estimation & Local Adaptation
Edgar Granados, Sumanth Tangirala, Kostas E. Bekris
State estimation and control are often addressed separately, leading to unsafe execution due to sensing noise, execution errors, and discrepancies between the planning model and re…
Developing Modular Grasping and Manipulation Pipeline Infrastructure to Streamline Performance Benchmarking
Brian Flynn, Kostas Bekris, Berk Calli +4
The robot manipulation ecosystem currently faces issues with integrating open-source components and reproducing results. This limits the ability of the community to benchmark and c…
Impact-resistant, autonomous robots inspired by tensegrity architecture
William R. Johnson, Xiaonan Huang, Shiyang Lu +4
Future robots will navigate perilous, remote environments with resilience and autonomy. Researchers have proposed building robots with compliant bodies to enhance robustness, but t…