ll4ma Lab News Archive

December 17, 2019: Mark Van der Merwe was awarded Honorable Mention for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award!

December 16, 2019: Paper Accepted to RA-L Special Issue: Benchmarking Protocols for Robotic Manipulation, "Benchmarking In-Hand Manipulation"; Silvia Cruciani, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Kaiyu Hang, Vikash Kumar, Tucker Hermans, and Danica Kragic. arxiv/PDF

November 1, 2019: Matthew Wilson's paper "Learning to Manipulate Object Collections Using Grounded State Representations" won the Best Systems Paper Award at CoRL 2019!

October 31, 2019: Paper Accepted to Scientific Reports (Special Collection: Soft Sensors and Actuators): “3D-Printing and Machine Learning Control of Soft Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite Actuators”; James D. Carrico, Tucker Hermans, Kwang J. Kim, and Kam K. Leang.

September 27, 2019: Tucker presented the RI Seminar at CMU. VIDEO

September 11, 2019: Tucker presented the Georgia Tech IRIM Seminar. VIDEO

September 7, 2019: Paper Accepted to CoRL 2019: “Learning to Manipulate Object Collections Using Grounded State Representations”; Matthew Wilson and Tucker Hermans. [PDF] [Project Page] [Video]

June 27, 2019: Paper accepted to RA-L: “Assembly Planning by Subassembly Decomposition Using Blocking Reduction”; James R. Watson and Tucker Hermans. PDF.

June 13, 2019: Paper accepted to ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC) “Assembly Planning using a Multi-arm System for Polygonal Furniture”; Seth Payne, C. Fletcher Garrison IV, Steven E. Markhan, Tucker Hermans, and Kam K Leang. PDF.

April 30, 2019: Mark Van der Merwe received a UROP scholarship to work on his project “Grasp Planning in Clutter via Motion Planning Aware Optimization and 3D Object Reconstruction”.

April 2019: Tucker Hermans received a Non-Tenured Faculty Award from 3M!

March 24, 2019: Balakumar Sundaralingam's ICRA 2019 paper is a finalist for Best Paper in Robot Manipulation!

March 15, 2019: Proposal Awarded: Tucker was awarded an NSF CAREER Award entitled “Improving Multi-fingered Manipulation by Unifying Learning and Planning.”

January 7, 2019: Tucker appeared on Radioactive on KRCL to discuss robotics, AI, and mindfulness

January 3, 2019: Paper accepted to RA-L "Modeling Grasp Type Improves Learning-Based Grasp Planning"; Qingkai Lu and Tucker Hermans. PDF

December 17, 2018: Tucker gave a talk at NVIDIA Research, Seattle entitled “Improving Multi-fingered Robot Manipulation by Unifying Learning and Planning”

June 29, 2018: Paper accepted to IROS 2018 “Dynamics Model Learning and Manipulation Planning for Objects in Hospitals using a Patient Assistant Mobile (PAM) Robot”; Roya Sabbagh Novin, Amir Yazdani, Tucker Hermans, and Andrew Merryweather. PDF

May 22, 2018: Paper accepted to Autonomous Robots “Relaxed-Rigidity Constraints: Kinematic Trajectory Optimization and Collision Avoidance for In-Grasp Manipulation”; Balakumar Sundaralingam and Tucker Hermans. PDF; Publisher's Site.

May, 2018: Matthew Wilson received a UROP scholarship to work on his project “Learning Tactile Feedback Policies with Guided Policy Search for Robotic Manipulation”.

April 23, 2018: Paper accepted to IEEE Transactions on Haptics “Grip Stabilization of Novel Objects using Slip Prediction.”; Filipe Veiga, Jan Peters, and Tucker Hermans. PDF; Publisher's page.

April 10, 2018: Tucker presented a talk following a screening of AlphaGo at the Salt Lake City Public library. Details available at the Natural History Museum of Utah website.

January 11, 2018: Paper accepted to ICRA 2018 “Geometric In-Hand Regrasp Planning: Alternating Optimization of Finger Gaits and In-Grasp Manipulation.” Balakumar Sundaralingam, and Tucker Hermans. PDF

October 27, 2017: Tucker gave a talk at the University of Washington Robotics Colloquium entitled “Learning and Planning for Autonomous Multi-fingered Robot Manipulation”

September 24, 2017: Tucker gave a talk at the IROS 2017 Workshop on Development of Benchmarking Protocols for Robotic Manipulation on Benchmarking for Within-Hand Manipulation

September 4, 2017: Paper accepted to International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR) 2017 “Planning Multi-Fingered Grasps as Probabilistic Inference in a Learned Deep Network”; Qingkai Lu, Kautilya Chenna, Balakumar Sundaralingam, and Tucker Hermans; PDF.

June 1, 2017: Katie Popek's ICRA Paper won the Best Medical Robotics Paper Award!

April 2017: Paper accepted to RSS 2017: "Relaxed-Rigidity Constraints: In-Grasp Manipulation using Purely Kinematic Trajectory Optimization"; Balakumar Sundaralingam and Tucker Hermans. [Project page]

April 2017: Katie Popek's ICRA 2017 paper is a finalist for Best Medical Robotics Paper!

February 2017: Proposal Awarded: CRII: RI: Enabling Manipulation of Object Collections via Self-Supervised Robot Learning, Tucker Hermans (PI)

03/27–03/39/2017: Tucker attended the AAAI Spring Symposium on Interactive Multi-Sensory Object Perception for Embodied Agents

02/23/2017: Proposal Awarded: CRII: RI: Enabling Manipulation of Object Collections via Self-Supervised Robot Learning, Tucker Hermans (PI

January 2017: Paper accepted to ICRA 2017: "First Demonstration of Simultaneous Localization and Propulsion of a Magnetic Capsule in a Lumen using a Single Rotating Magnet." Katie M. Popek, Tucker Hermans, and Jake J. Abbott

10/12/2016: Tucker visited Idaho National Laboratory to view robots being used for handling of nuclear material at the DOE research facility; Host: Tony Crawford

08/7–08/09/2016: Tucker attended the New Computer Science Faculty Teaching Workshop at UCSD

07/01/2016: Paper accepted (Oral) to IROS 2016: “Active Tactile Object Exploration with Gaussian Processes.” Zhengkun Yi, Roberto Calandra, Herke van Hoof, Filipe Veiga, Tucker Hermans, Yilei Zhang, and Jan Peters.

01/11/2016: Tucker gave a Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar Talk at BYU on Visual and Tactile Learning for Manipulation