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Year: 2017
PhD Dissertation on Intelligent Collision Management in Dynamic Environments for Human-Centered Robots
This thesis, written by PhD student Kwan Suk Kim posits that no matter how hard we try, collisions will always happen, and therefore we need to confront and study them both during autonomous navigation or dexterous manipulation. Chapter 5 connects…
Paper on Liquid Cooled Viscoelastic Robotic Systems
Liquid Cooled Viscoelastic actuators are aimed at fielding human-centered lightweight robot structures with high payload capabilities and high mechanical robustness. This technology excels at the following five axes: energy efficiency, torque density, mechanical robustness, position and force controllability.
IJRR Paper on Theory of Dynamic Locomotion – arXiv Preprint Available
This study presents a theoretical method for planning and controlling agile bipedal locomotion based on robustly tracking a set of non-periodic keyframe states.
Kwan Suk Kim Successfully Defends his PhD Thesis
Kwan Suk, successfully defended his PhD Thesis on Intelligent Collision Management in Dynamic Environments for Human-Centered Robots. Huge Congratulations!
Steven’s summer project with NASA JSC, IHMC and U. Michigan on Intuitive Whole-Body Control of Valkyrie!
This video summarizes the deployment of applications on Valkyrie performed by Steven Jens Jorgensen from the U. of Texas at Austin and other researchers at NASA, IHMC, and U. Michigan. Given desired end-effector poses, a nonlinear optimization routine is used…
Behold, the Draco liquid cooled compliant robotic leg prototype
The video below shows the new Draco liquid cooled prototype leg produced as a collaboration between the Human Centered Robotics Lab and Apptronik Systems.. We have developed a new liquid cooled viscoelastic actuator capable of significantly surpassing the mechanical power of…
IJRR Paper Accepted
Big congratulations to Ye for having his theoretical locomotion paper accepted!! Y. Zhao, B. Fernandez, L. Sentis, Robust Optimal Planning and Control of Non-Periodic Bipedal Locomotion with A Centroidal Momentum Model, International Journal of Robotics Research, Accepted, July 2017
Congrats to Students for Best Manipulation Paper Award
Congratulations to Prashant Rao from the ReNeu Lab, Gray Thomas from the Human Centered Robotics Lab, and ReNeu’s Lab PI Ashish Deshpande, for winning the IEEE ICRA 2017 Best Robotic Manipulation Paper Award!
Workshop Talk IEEE ICRA 2017
Gray, Donghyun and Luis had a blast talking about our new lab’s pet topic “Uncertainty in Human-Centered Robots” #icra2017 #singapore #marinabaysands Abstract: Uncertainty permeates in all control approaches and significantly complicates controller design. This is specially true for human-centered robots which…
Welcome Toyota HSR Platform Unit #38
Look at our new robotic companion, the Toyota HSR. Fun times ahead for #RoboCup2017 #UTAustin.
Click below for some seriously fun talks in social impacts of robotics
Media from IEEE ARSO 2017 Organized by the HCRL. http://sites.utexas.edu/arso2017