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SUMMARY:Spring 2023 GRASP on Robotics: Pulkit Agrawal\, MIT\, "Fun with Robots and Machine Learning"
DESCRIPTION:This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance via Zoom. This week’s presenter will be in-person as well.  \n  \nABSTRACT\nRobots are getting smarter at converting complex natural language commands describing household tasks into step-wise instructions. Yet\, they fail to actually perform such tasks! A prominent explanation for these failures is the fragility and inability of the low-level skills (e.g.\, locomotion\, grasping\, pushing\, object re-orientation\, etc.) to generalize to unseen scenarios. In this talk\, I will discuss a framework for learning low-level skills that surpasses limitations of current systems at tackling contact-rich tasks and is real-world-ready: generalizes\, runs in real-time with onboard computing\, and uses commodity sensors. I will describe the framework using the following case studies: \n(i) a dexterous manipulation system capable of re-orienting novel objects. \n(ii) a quadruped robot capable of fast locomotion and manipulation on diverse natural terrains. \n(iii) learning from a few task demonstrations of an object manipulation task to generalize to new object instances in out-of-distribution configurations.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/spring-2023-grasp-on-robotics-pulkit-agrawal/
LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="General Robotics%2C Automation%2C Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab":MAILTO:grasplab@seas.upenn.edu
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