A review of robot learning for manipulation: Challenges, representations, and algorithms

O Kroemer, S Niekum, G Konidaris - Journal of machine learning research, 2021 - jmlr.org
A key challenge in intelligent robotics is creating robots that are capable of directly
interacting with the world around them to achieve their goals. The last decade has seen …

A comparative review of hand-eye calibration techniques for vision guided robots

I Enebuse, M Foo, BSKK Ibrahim, H Ahmed… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hand-eye calibration enables proper perception of the environment in which a vision guided
robot operates. Additionally, it enables the mapping of the scene in the robots frame. Proper …

Learning to generalize kinematic models to novel objects

B Abbatematteo, S Tellex, G Konidaris - … of the 3rd Conference on Robot …, 2019 - par.nsf.gov
Robots operating in human environments must be capable of interacting with a wide variety
of articulated objects such as cabinets, refrigerators, and drawers. Existing approaches …

Factored pose estimation of articulated objects using efficient nonparametric belief propagation

K Desingh, S Lu, A Opipari… - … Conference on Robotics …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robots working in human environments often encounter a wide range of articulated objects,
such as tools, cabinets, and other jointed objects. Such articulated objects can take an …

Efficient nonparametric belief propagation for pose estimation and manipulation of articulated objects

K Desingh, S Lu, A Opipari, OC Jenkins - Science Robotics, 2019 - science.org
Robots working in human environments often encounter a wide range of articulated objects,
such as tools, cabinets, and other jointed objects. Such articulated objects can take an …

Gbec: Geometry-based hand-eye calibration

Y Liu, J Zhang, Z She, A Kheradmand… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Hand-eye calibration is the problem of solving the transformation from the end-effector of a
robot to the sensor attached to it. Commonly employed techniques, such as AXXB or AXZB …

Learning to infer kinematic hierarchies for novel object instances

H Abdul-Rashid, M Freeman… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Manipulating an articulated object requires perceiving its kinematic hierarchy: its parts, how
each can move, and how those motions are coupled. Previous work has explored …

The manifold particle filter for state estimation on high-dimensional implicit manifolds

MC Koval, M Klingensmith, SS Srinivasa… - … on Robotics and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We estimate the state of a noisy robot arm and underactuated hand using an implicit
Manifold Particle Filter (MPF) informed by contact sensors. As the robot touches the world, its …

Online Estimation of Self-Body Deflection With Various Sensor Data Based on Directional Statistics

H Sato, K Kawaharazuka, T Makabe… - 2023 IEEE/SICE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a method for online estimation of the robot's posture. Our method
uses von Mises and Bingham distributions as probability distributions of joint angles and 3D …