Anyteleop: A general vision-based dexterous robot arm-hand teleoperation system

Y Qin, W Yang, B Huang, K Van Wyk, H Su… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Vision-based teleoperation offers the possibility to endow robots with human-level
intelligence to physically interact with the environment, while only requiring low-cost camera …

nvblox: Gpu-accelerated incremental signed distance field mapping

A Millane, H Oleynikova, E Wirbel… - … on Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dense, volumetric maps are essential to enable robot navigation and interaction with the
environment. To achieve low latency, dense maps are typically computed onboard the robot …

Motions in microseconds via vectorized sampling-based planning

W Thomason, Z Kingston… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern sampling-based motion planning algorithms typically take between hundreds of
milliseconds to dozens of seconds to find collision-free motions for high degree-of-freedom …

Ram: Retrieval-based affordance transfer for generalizable zero-shot robotic manipulation

Y Kuang, J Ye, H Geng, J Mao, C Deng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This work proposes a retrieve-and-transfer framework for zero-shot robotic manipulation,
dubbed RAM, featuring generalizability across various objects, environments, and …

Robot see robot do: Part-centric feature fields for visual imitation of articulated objects

J Kerr, CM Kim, M Wu, B Yi, Q Wang… - … Conference on Robot …, 2024 - openreview.net
Humans can learn to manipulate new objects by simply watching others; providing robots
with the ability to learn from such demonstrations would enable a natural interface specifying …

CuRobo: Parallelized collision-free minimum-jerk robot motion generation

B Sundaralingam, SKS Hari, A Fishman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper explores the problem of collision-free motion generation for manipulators by
formulating it as a global motion optimization problem. We develop a parallel optimization …

RGB-only reconstruction of tabletop scenes for collision-free manipulator control

Z Tang, B Sundaralingam, J Tremblay… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a system for collision-free control of a robot manipulator that uses only RGB
views of the world. Perceptual input of a tabletop scene is provided by multiple images of an …

Robot See Robot Do: Imitating Articulated Object Manipulation with Monocular 4D Reconstruction

J Kerr, CM Kim, M Wu, B Yi, Q Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Humans can learn to manipulate new objects by simply watching others; providing robots
with the ability to learn from such demonstrations would enable a natural interface specifying …

The Magnificent Seven Challenges and Opportunities in Domain-Specific Accelerator Design for Autonomous Systems

SM Neuman, B Plancher, VJ Reddi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.17311, 2024 - arxiv.org
The end of Moore's Law and Dennard Scaling has combined with advances in agile
hardware design to foster a golden age of domain-specific acceleration. However, this new …

Vapr: Variable-precision tensors to accelerate robot motion planning

YS Hsiao, SKS Hari, B Sundaralingam… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-dimensional motion generation requires nu-merical precision for smooth, collision-free
solutions. Typically, double-precision or single-precision floating-point (FP) formats are …