Fall 2021 GRASP Seminar: Heng Yang, “Certifiable Outlier-Robust Geometric Perception: Robots that See through the Clutter with Confidence”
*This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance for Dr. Malikopoulos’ in-person talk in Wu & Chen Auditorium and Virtual attendance via Zoom Webinar here. Geometric perception is the […]
Fall 2021 GRASP SFI: Lucas Manuelli, NVIDIA, “Robot Manipulation with Learned Representations”
We would like to have robots which can perform useful manipulation tasks in real-world environments. This requires robots that can perceive the world with both precision and semantic understanding, methods […]
Fall 2021 GRASP Seminar: Gregory S. Chirikjian, “Robot Imagination: Affordance-Based Reasoning about Unknown Objects”
Today’s robots are very brittle in their intelligence. This follows from a legacy of industrial robotics where robots pick and place known parts repetitively. For humanoid robots to function as […]
GRASP on Robotics: “Planning on Graphs of Convex Sets”
*This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Wu & Chen Auditorium and Virtual attendance via Zoom Webinar here. Motivated by the challenging problems in planning and control […]
Fall 2021 GRASP SFI: “Physics-inspired learning for discontinuous contact dynamics”
*This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and Virtual attendance via Zoom here… Frictional contact is the core underlying behavior of robot locomotion and manipulation, […]
GRASP on Robotics: “The Importance of Pneumatic Actuation in Adaptive Robotic Devices”
Abstract: Soft pneumatic actuators have become a popular implement in modern robotic systems due to their intrinsic mechanical compliance, which affords researchers levels of robustness and adaptability that can be […]
MEAM Seminar: “Designing Robotic Systems with Collective Embodied Intelligence”
Natural swarms exhibit sophisticated colony-level behaviors with remarkable scalability and error tolerance. Their evolutionary success stems from more than just intelligent individuals, it hinges on their morphology, their physical interactions, […]
GRASP on Robotics: “Motion Planning for Autonomy: Successes and Challenges Ahead”
The past two decades have witnessed incredible advances towards the design of autonomous systems. This talk will discuss the role of motion planning in yielding solutions for an agent that […]
MEAM Seminar: “Robotics Goes Soft: Challenges and Achievements, for New Robotics Scenarios”
Largely inspired by the observation of the role of soft tissues in living organisms, the use of soft materials for building robots is recognized as one of the current challenges […]
Fall 2021 GRASP Seminar: GRASP Research Overview – Day 2
GRASP Lab faculty confirmed presentations (where appropriate their presenters)… Dr. Ani Hsieh – Welcome & Introduction Dr. Michelle Johnson (presented by Frances Sowande) Dr. Dan Koditschek (presented by Wei-Hsi Chen) Dr. […]