[AI Seminar] Online AI Seminar on Sep 08 (Zoom) -- Ankur Handa -- DexPilot: Vision-Based Teleoperation of Dexterous Robotic Hand-Arm System -- AI seminar is sponsored by Fortive.

[Aayush Bansal]

Ankur Handa (Nvidia) will be giving an online seminar on "DexPilot:
Vision-Based Teleoperation of Dexterous Robotic Hand-Arm System" from *12:00
- 01:00 PM* on Sep 08.

*Zoom Link*:
https://cmu.zoom.us/j/93311828075?pwd=RTlCcW0wRHNMNHk1RDJMWUJQWDVNdz09

CMU AI Seminar is sponsored by Fortive.

Following are the details of the talk:

*Title: *DexPilot: Vision-Based Teleoperation of Dexterous Robotic Hand-Arm
System.

*Abstract: *Teleoperation offers the possibility of imparting robotic
systems with sophisticated reasoning skills, intuition, and creativity to
perform tasks. However, current teleoperation solutions for high
degree-of-actuation (DoA), multi-fingered robots are generally
cost-prohibitive, while low-cost offerings usually provide reduced degrees
of control. Herein, a low-cost, vision-based teleoperation system,
DexPilot, was developed that allows for complete control over the full 23
DoA robotic system by merely observing the bare human hand. DexPilot
enables operators to carry out a variety of complex manipulation tasks that
go beyond simple pick-and-place operations. This allows for the collection
of high dimensional, multi-modality, state-action data that can be
leveraged in the future to learn sensorimotor policies for challenging
manipulation tasks. The system performance was measured through speed and
reliability metrics across two human demonstrators on a variety of tasks.
Here is the link to the project <https://sites.google.com/view/dex-pilot>.


*Bio*: Ankur Handa is currently a Research Scientist at NVIDIA Seattle
Robotics group led by Dieter Fox. Prior to that he was a Research Scientist
at OpenAI and before that he was a Dyson Fellow at Imperial College London.
He finished his PhD with Prof. Andrew Davison at Imperial College London
and did a two year post-doc with Prof. Roberto Cipolla at the University of
Cambridge. His papers have won Best Industry Paper Award at BMVC, 2014 and
have been Best Manipulation Paper Award Finalist and Best Student Paper
Award Finalist at ICRA 2019.


To learn more about the seminar series, please visit the website:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/


-- 
Aayush Bansal
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aayushb/
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