ll4ma Lab News Archive

  • 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
  • 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
  • 11/03–11/05 2015: Tucker attended Humanoids 2015 in Seoul, Korea and presented two papers:
    • “Learning Robot In-Hand Manipulation with Tactile Features,” Herke van Hoof, Tucker Hermans, Gerhard Neumann, and Jan Peters
    • “Evaluation of Tactile Feature Extraction for Interactive Object Recognition,” Janine Hölscher, Jan Peters, and Tucker Hermans (ORAL)