by sstepput | May 25, 2017 | LabNews
View We have two new papers accepted to RSS and Living Machines 2017. The submission to RSS, From the Lab to the Desert: Fast Prototyping and Learning of Robot Locomotion, introduces a new methodology which combines quick prototyping and sample-efficient reinforcement...
by sstepput | Apr 17, 2017 | LabNews
View We have a new paper accepted at The Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making. Trevor will present our new work on learning to hand over objects at the UMICH Ann Arbor. Abstract: While significant advancements have been made...
by sstepput | Apr 17, 2017 | LabNews
ViewOur graduate students Ramsundar Kalpagam Ganesan and Indranil Sur graduated with a masters degree in spring 2017. Ramsundar worked on “Mediating Human-Robot Collaboration through Mixed Reality Cues”, utilizing virtual reality to ease complex...
by sstepput | Feb 1, 2017 | LabNews
View We present a data-driven imitation learning system for learning human-robot interactions from human-human demonstrations. During training, the movements of two interaction partners are recorded through motion capture and an interaction model is learned. At...
by sstepput | Jan 13, 2017 | LabNews
View Joe Campbell, Ph.D. student in the Interactive Robotics Lab received the prestigious NSF EAPSI Fellowship. The fellowship will enable Joe to travel to Japan. At the University of Osaka Joe will be working for 10 weeks with our research collaborators from the...
by hebenamor | Nov 5, 2016 | LabNews
View Our robot Sun Devil-RX was featured in various news articles. We have recently shown how machine learning can be used by an autonomous robot to learn how to play basketball. Sun Devil repeatedly shot a ball to the hoop and learned how to refine his motor skills....