Autonomous Robotics Manipulation - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University
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Autonomous Robotics Manipulation
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The ARM-S team is part of a DARPA competition to create an autonomous robotic manipulator that acts like a human arm and hand. The goal is to develop a manipulator that carries out high-level tasks, interacts intelligently with its surroundings, adapts to real-world environments, and requires little supervision.

Each team writes software that runs on the same robot and performs the same set of tasks, from simple tasks like picking up a hammer to complicated, multi-step tasks like hanging up a telephone. Judges evaluate each team’s software on DARPA’s own, identical ARM robot.

CMU is one of three teams (out of six original participants) selected for Phase 2 of the ARM-S program.

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2017
Autonomy Infused Teleoperation with Application to BCI Manipulation
Katharina Muelling, Arun Venkatraman, Jean-Sebastien Valois, John Downey, Jeffrey M. Weiss, Shervin Javdani, Martial Hebert, Andrew B. Schwartz, Jennifer L. Collinger, and J. Andrew Bagnell
Journal Article, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 41, No. 6, pp. 1401 - 1422, August, 2017
2015
Autonomy Infused Teleoperation with Application to BCI Manipulation
Katharina Muelling, Arun Venkatraman, Jean-Sebastien Valois, John Downey, Jeffrey Weiss, Shervin Javdani, Martial Hebert, Andrew B. Schwartz, Jennifer L. Collinger, and J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '15), July, 2015

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