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1. Update student speakers youtube link for Fall 24; 2. Rename studen…
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mimichu committed Dec 18, 2024
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location-url: "https://campus-map.stanford.edu/?srch=GatesB01"
title: "Leveraging Physics-Based Models To Learn Generalizable Robotic Manipulation"
abstract: "Robotic manipulation involves rich contact interactions, which pose significant challenges in producing effective manipulation policies. While model-based planners have achieved great success in continuous systems, their performance typically breaks down when dealing with the complex, discontinuous contact dynamics in manipulation tasks. On the other hand, behavior cloning and reinforcement learning have demonstrated success in fine-grained manipulation, but often struggle with generalization beyond the specific scenarios encountered during training. In this talk, I will explore how incorporating physical models can enable efficient learning of robust manipulation policies. I will present a series of projects that demonstrate how integrating physics priors and contact constraints into learning pipelines can facilitate the execution of sophisticated dexterous and nonprehensile tasks across a wide range of simulation and hardware environments."
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youtube-code: "reQt9oiYla8"
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location-url: "https://campus-map.stanford.edu/?srch=GatesB01"
title: "Designing Origami Voxels for Robotics"
abstract: "The topic of this talk is designing novel origami voxels and their applications in robotics. Just as folding a flat sheet of origami paper creates a multitude of emergent properties, we extend these principles to the design and folding of three-dimensional cubes. We focus on designing origami voxels with specific mechanical properties relevant to robotics applications, including multistability, self-locking, reconfigurability, modularity, and underactuation. The highly coupled nature of folding origami cubes contributes to addressing fundamental challenges of actuation complexity and energetic stability in modular robotics, with the goal of combining mathematical elegance and creative design with practical functionality. The talk will explore the crease patterns of eight different origami voxels with a hands-on approach, and discuss both theoretical and experimental methods of characterizing these designs for shape changing robots."
# youtube-code: "TBD"
youtube-code: "D9oTDE1GWAE"
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