Fast kinodynamic planning on the constraint manifold with deep neural networks

P Kicki, P Liu, D Tateo, H Bou-Ammar… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motion planning is a mature area of research in robotics with many well-established
methods based on optimization or sampling the state space, suitable for solving kinematic …

A shared control framework for enhanced grasping performance in teleoperation

Y Zhu, B Jiang, Q Chen, T Aoyama… - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Remote teleoperation has shown significant advancements since the first teleoperation
system was proposed by Goertz in the 1940s. In recent years, the research on shared …

Motion planning and inertia-based control for impact aware manipulation

H Khurana, A Billard - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we propose a metric called hitting flux, which is used in the motion generation
and controls for a robot manipulator to interact with the environment through a hitting or a …

Robot Air Hockey: A Manipulation Testbed for Robot Learning with Reinforcement Learning

C Chuck, C Qi, MJ Munje, S Li, M Rudolph… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement Learning is a promising tool for learning complex policies even in fast-
moving and object-interactive domains where human teleoperation or hard-coded policies …

Safe Reinforcement Learning on the Constraint Manifold: Theory and Applications

P Liu, H Bou-Ammar, J Peters, D Tateo - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.09080, 2024 - arxiv.org
Integrating learning-based techniques, especially reinforcement learning, into robotics is
promising for solving complex problems in unstructured environments. However, most …

DroPong: Enthusing Learners About Control Engineering by Revisiting the Pong Game with Aerial and Ground Drones*

S Bertrand, C Stoica, A Thakker… - 2024 European …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an adapted version of the classic Pong game, tailored for educational
purposes and illustrated with two ground mobile robots and one drone, therefore called …

An Intuitive Manual Guidance Scheme to Operate Rotation and Translation Simultaneously

F Shao, F Ficuciello - 2024 IEEE International Conference on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During certain human-robot collaboration tasks, the operator interacts with the robot by hand
guidance to adjust the end-effector pose for spatial operations. The rotational operation is …

Learning Diverse Robot Striking Motions with Diffusion Models and Kinematically Constrained Gradient Guidance

KM Lee, S Ye, Q Xiao, Z Wu, Z Zaidi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Advances in robot learning have enabled robots to generate skills for a variety of tasks. Yet,
robot learning is typically sample inefficient, struggles to learn from data sources exhibiting …

Puck: Parallel surface and convolution-kernel tracking for event-based cameras

L Gava, M Monforte, M Iacono, C Bartolozzi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Low latency and accuracy are fundamental requirements when vision is integrated in robots
for high-speed interaction with targets, since they affect system reliability and stability. In …

Energy-based Contact Planning under Uncertainty for Robot Air Hockey

J Jankowski, A Marić, P Liu, D Tateo, J Peters… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Planning robot contact often requires reasoning over a horizon to anticipate outcomes,
making such planning problems computationally expensive. In this letter, we propose a …