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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"robotic manipulation"”.
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VISION-BASED ROBOTIC MANIPULATION
Vision-based robotic manipulation has emerged as a pivotal research area within the field of robotics, leveraging advanced computer vision techniques to enable robots to perceive and interact with their environment autonomously. This thesis explores three critical aspects of vision-based robotic …
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Prediction learning in robotic manipulation
This thesis addresses an important problem in robotic manipulation, which is the ability to predict how objects behave under manipulative actions. This ability is useful for planning of object manipulations. Physics simulators can be used to do this, but they model many kinds of object interactions …
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Efficient Robotic Manipulation with Scene Knowledge
… scene knowledge that improves the efficiency of robotic manipulation systems. Grasping is a fundamental manipulation skill that is constrained by the scene arrangement (i.e., the locations of the robot, the objects, and the environmental structures). Understanding scene knowledge, such as the …
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Collaborative control strategies for robotic manipulation
… Industry 4.0, where general purpose and smart robotics are its two main themes, the question is how best to exploit this technology? This thesis presents novel work which attempts to answer these callings. <br/><br/>With recent improvements in technology advancing the field of robotics, such …
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Enhanced household automation through robotic manipulation
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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RF-guided exploration for robotic manipulation
This thesis presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of RVExp, a system that leverages radio perception to design efficient exploration controllers in highly occluded and non-line-of-sight settings. RVExp relies on eye-in-hand vision sensor and battery-less RFID tags attached to the …
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Visual Transfer Learning for Robotic Manipulation
… unfamiliar objects. For the past decades of robotics, tremendous efforts have been dedicated to endow robot manipulation systems with such capabilities. As classic solutions typically require prior knowledge of the objects (e.g., 3D CAD models) which are not available in the unstructured …
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Learning graph-structured representations for robotic manipulation
Robotic manipulation is evolving to meet the demands of varied and unpredictable environments, moving beyond repetitive tasks performed in controlled industrial settings. Traditional approaches, which rely on extensive manual programming, struggle with scalability and adaptability in such …
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Learning graph-structured representations for robotic manipulation
Robotic manipulation is evolving to meet the demands of varied and unpredictable environments, moving beyond repetitive tasks performed in controlled industrial settings. Traditional approaches, which rely on extensive manual programming, struggle with scalability and adaptability in such …
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Contact-aware and multi-modal robotic manipulation
Intelligent robotic manipulation has advanced significantly in recent years, driven by progress in foundational cognitive models, sensor-fusion techniques, and improvements in actuators and sensors. However, most contemporary robotic systems still lack the ability to effectively recognize and …
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Learning to Make Decisions in Robotic Manipulation
… consequences. Empirical evaluations in different robotic manipulation environments with different shapes of the target object demonstrate that this empowerment-based intrinsic motivation approach can obtain higher extrinsic task rewards faster than other state-of-the-art solutions to sparse-reward …
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Visuo-Tactile Perception for Dexterous Robotic Manipulation
… perception to enable general and precise robotic manipulation. In particular, we want to study how to effectively process visual and tactile information to allow robots to expand their capabilities while remaining accurate and reliable. We begin our work by focusing on developing tools for …
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Development of an AI-driven robotic manipulation framework
… artificial intelligence (AI), advanced robotics, and the latest computer vision techniques to enable intuitive and universal robotic control across different robotic manipulators. The intuitive user command interpretation is deployed in the system using ChatGPT API. The vision …
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Remote robotic manipulation task execution using affordance primitives
… expands the areas robots may be deployed for manipulation, and has navigation implications as well (e.g. traversing doors or elevators). This work introduces affordance primitives as the instantaneous spatial and force profile for contact tasks, and uses them to improve robotic manipulation of …
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Passivity-Based Hands Towards General-Purpose Robotic Manipulation
Robotic manipulation in unstructured environments is a significant research challenge, where development contributes significantly to social robotics, industrial robotics and prosthetics. Despite a long history of research into artificial hands and significant development along the way, human-level …
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Dynamic and structured scene representation for robotic manipulation
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Leveraging Mechanics for Multi-step Robotic Manipulation Planning
… robots to robustly perform complex, multi-step manipulation tasks, like chopping vegetables or wielding a wrench. Completing such tasks requires a robot to plan and execute long sequences of actions, where each action involves many connected, discrete and continuous choices that are critically …
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Enabling robotic manipulation in remote environments with shared autonomy
The evolution of robotics technology continues to facilitate exploration and scientific study in remote environments, enabling research in areas that were previously impossible to reach. Robots operating in space and marine environments encounter similar operational challenges, as both face high …
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