A self-supervised learning system for object detection using physics simulation and multi-view pose estimation

C Mitash, KE Bekris, A Boularias - 2017 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Progress has been achieved recently in object detection given advancements in deep
learning. Nevertheless, such tools typically require a large amount of training data and …

Efficiently solving general rearrangement tasks: A fast extension primitive for an incremental sampling-based planner

A Krontiris, KE Bekris - 2016 IEEE International Conference on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Manipulating multiple movable obstacles is a hard problem that involves searching high-
dimensional C-spaces. A milestone method for this problem was able to compute solutions …

Cloud automation: Precomputing roadmaps for flexible manipulation

K Bekris, R Shome, A Krontiris… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The goal of this article is to highlight the benefits of cloud automation for industrial adopters
and some of the research challenges that must be addressed in this process. The focus is on …

Knowledge-oriented task and motion planning for multiple mobile robots

A Akbari, Muhayyuddin, J Rosell - Journal of Experimental & …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Robotic systems composed of several mobile robots moving in human environments pose
several problems at perception, planning and control levels. In these environments, there …

Physics-based scene-level reasoning for object pose estimation in clutter

C Mitash, A Boularias, K Bekris - The International Journal …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper focuses on vision-based pose estimation for multiple rigid objects placed in
clutter, especially in cases involving occlusions and objects resting on each other. Progress …

An experimental study for identifying features of legible manipulator paths

M Zhao, R Shome, I Yochelson, K Bekris… - … Robotics: The 14th …, 2016 - Springer
This work performs an experimental study on the legibility of paths executed by a
manipulation arm available on a Baxter robot. In this context, legibility is defined as the …

Geometric probability results for bounding path quality in sampling-based roadmaps after finite computation

A Dobson, GV Moustakides… - 2015 IEEE International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sampling-based algorithms provide efficient solutions to high-dimensional, geometrically
complex motion planning problems. For these methods asymptotic results are known in …

An extensible software architecture for composing motion and task planners

Z Littlefield, A Krontiris, A Kimmel, A Dobson… - … , and Programming for …, 2014 - Springer
This paper describes a software infrastructure for developing and composing task and
motion planners. The functionality of motion planners is well defined and they provide a …

Formal design of robot integrated task and motion planning

RR da Silva, B Wu, H Lin - 2016 IEEE 55th Conference on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrated Task and Motion Planning (ITMP) for mobile robots becomes a new trend. Most
existing methods for ITMP either restrict to static environments or lack performance …

[PDF][PDF] Reducing roadmap size for network transmission in support of cloud automation

K Bekris, R Shome, A Krontiris… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2016 - cs.rutgers.edu
This work aims to highlight the benefits of Cloud Automation for industrial adopters and
some of the research challenges that must be addressed in this process. The focus is on the …