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08/14/2023
The Michigan Robotics Undergraduate Curriculum: Defining the Discipline of Robotics for Equity and Excellence
The Robotics Major at the University of Michigan was successfully launch...
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07/23/2023
TransNet: Transparent Object Manipulation Through Category-Level Pose Estimation
Transparent objects present multiple distinct challenges to visual perce...
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05/28/2023
Counter-Hypothetical Particle Filters for Single Object Pose Tracking
Particle filtering is a common technique for six degree of freedom (6D) ...
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03/24/2023
SEAL: Semantic Frame Execution And Localization for Perceiving Afforded Robot Actions
Recent advances in robotic mobile manipulation have spurred the expansio...
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03/08/2023
DNBP: Differentiable Nonparametric Belief Propagation
We present a differentiable approach to learn the probabilistic factors ...
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11/17/2022
Optimal Constrained Task Planning as Mixed Integer Programming
For robots to successfully execute tasks assigned to them, they must be ...
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10/03/2022
NARF22: Neural Articulated Radiance Fields for Configuration-Aware Rendering
Articulated objects pose a unique challenge for robotic perception and m...
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08/22/2022
TransNet: Category-Level Transparent Object Pose Estimation
Transparent objects present multiple distinct challenges to visual perce...
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06/17/2022
VLMbench: A Compositional Benchmark for Vision-and-Language Manipulation
Benefiting from language flexibility and compositionality, humans natura...
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03/08/2022
ClearPose: Large-scale Transparent Object Dataset and Benchmark
Transparent objects are ubiquitous in household settings and pose distin...
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03/01/2022
ProgressLabeller: Visual Data Stream Annotation for Training Object-Centric 3D Perception
Visual perception tasks often require vast amounts of labelled data, inc...
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10/18/2021
Probabilistic Inference in Planning for Partially Observable Long Horizon Problems
For autonomous service robots to successfully perform long horizon tasks...
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10/05/2021
SeanNet: Semantic Understanding Network for Localization Under Object Dynamics
We aim for domestic robots to operate indoor for long-term service. Unde...
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10/01/2021
Topologically-Informed Atlas Learning
We present a new technique that enables manifold learning to accurately ...
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01/15/2021
Differentiable Nonparametric Belief Propagation
We present a differentiable approach to learn the probabilistic factors ...
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12/16/2020
Robotics Enabling the Workforce
Robotics has the potential to magnify the skilled workforce of the natio...
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12/11/2020
Next Wave Artificial Intelligence: Robust, Explainable, Adaptable, Ethical, and Accountable
The history of AI has included several "waves" of ideas. The first wave,...
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11/18/2020
Robot Task Planning for Low Entropy Belief States
Recent advances in computational perception have significantly improved ...
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10/16/2020
Manipulation-Oriented Object Perception in Clutter through Affordance Coordinate Frames
In order to enable robust operation in unstructured environments, robots...
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08/06/2020
Parts-Based Articulated Object Localization in Clutter Using Belief Propagation
Robots working in human environments must be able to perceive and act on...
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06/18/2020
Semantic Linking Maps for Active Visual Object Search
We aim for mobile robots to function in a variety of common human enviro...
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03/27/2020
GeoFusion: Geometric Consistency informed Scene Estimation in Dense Clutter
We propose GeoFusion, a SLAM-based scene estimation method for building ...
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11/17/2019
A Sketch-Based System for Human-Guided Constrained Object Manipulation
In this paper, we present an easy to use sketch-based interface to extra...
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09/10/2019
GlassLoc: Plenoptic Grasp Pose Detection in Transparent Clutter
Transparent objects are prevalent across many environments of interest f...
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03/20/2019
GRIP: Generative Robust Inference and Perception for Semantic Robot Manipulation in Adversarial Environments
Recent advancements have led to a proliferation of machine learning syst...
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12/10/2018
Factored Pose Estimation of Articulated Objects using Efficient Nonparametric Belief Propagation
Robots working in human environments often encounter a wide range of art...
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10/26/2018
Semantic Mapping with Simultaneous Object Detection and Localization
We present a filtering-based method for semantic mapping to simultaneous...
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08/15/2018
Never Mind the Bounding Boxes, Here's the SAND Filters
Perception is the main bottleneck to perform autonomous mobile manipulat...
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07/27/2018
Pull Message Passing for Nonparametric Belief Propagation
We present a "pull" approach to approximate products of Gaussian mixture...
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06/26/2018
