Student Talks
Low-Cost Multimodal Sensing and Dexterity for Deformable Object Manipulation
Abstract: To integrate robots seamlessly into daily life, they must be able to handle a variety of tasks in diverse environments, like cooking in restaurants or tidying up around the house. Many of the items in these environments are deformable such as fruits or bed sheets and a certain level of dexterity is necessary to [...]
Mass-Constrained Robotic Climbing on Irregular Terrain
Abstract: Climbing robots can operate in steep and unstructured environments that are inaccessible to other ground robots, with applications ranging from the inspection of artificial structures on Earth to the exploration of natural terrain features throughout the solar system. Climbing robots for planetary exploration face many challenges to deployment, including mass restrictions, irregular surface features, [...]
Towards Annotation-Free Visual-Geometric Representations and Learning for Navigation in Unstructured Environments
Abstract: Navigation in unstructured environments is a capability critical to many robotics applications such as forestry, construction, disaster response and defense. In these domains, robots have the potential to eliminate much of the dull, dirty and/or dangerous work that is currently performed by humans. Unfortunately, these environments pose a unique set of challenges for navigation [...]