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Efficient and principled robot learning: Theory and algorithms
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-01-07)
Roboticists have long envisioned fully-automated robots that can operate reliably in unstructured environments. This is an exciting but extremely difficult problem; in order to succeed, robots must reason about sequential ...
Robots learning actions and goals from everyday people
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-11-16)
Robots are destined to move beyond the caged factory floors towards domains where they will be interacting closely with humans. They will encounter highly varied environments, scenarios and user demands. As a result, ...
Teaching robots about human environments: Leveraging human interaction to efficiently learn and use multisensory object affordances
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-01-09)
The real world is complex, unstructured, and contains high levels of uncertainty. Although past work shows that robots can successfully operate in situations where a single skill is needed, they will need a framework that ...
Search-based collision-free motion planning for robotic sculpting
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-28)
In this work, I explore the task of robot sculpting. I propose a search-based planning algorithm to solve the problem of sculpting by material removal with a multi-axis manipulator. I generate collision free trajectories ...
Joint attention in human-robot interaction
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-07-07)
Joint attention, a crucial component in interaction and an important milestone in human development, has drawn a lot of attention from the robotics community recently. Robotics researchers have studied and implemented joint ...
Leveraging distribution and heterogeneity in robot systems architecture
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-08-03)
Like computer architects, robot designers must address multiple, possibly competing, requirements by balancing trade-offs in terms of processing, memory, communication, and energy to satisfy design objectives. However, ...
Guided teaching interactions with robots: embodied queries and teaching heuristics
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-05-17)
The vision of personal robot assistants continues to become more realistic with technological advances in robotics. The increase in the capabilities of robots, presents boundless opportunities for them to perform useful ...
Mobile manipulation in unstructured environments with haptic sensing and compliant joints
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-08-22)
We make two main contributions in this thesis. First, we present our approach to robot manipulation, which emphasizes the benefits of making contact with the world across all the surfaces of a manipulator with whole-arm ...
Physics-based reinforcement learning for autonomous manipulation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-08-21)
With recent research advances, the dream of bringing domestic robots into our everyday lives has become more plausible than ever. Domestic robotics has grown dramatically in the past decade, with applications ranging from ...
An integrative framework of time-varying affective robotic behavior
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-04-04)
As robots become more and more prevalent in our everyday life, making sure that our interactions with them are natural and satisfactory is of paramount importance. Given the propensity of humans to treat machines as social ...