[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]

Reminder.. this is tomorrow at noon.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 9:53 AM Aayush Bansal <aayushb at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> 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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