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Time-Lapse Light Field Photography With a 7 DoF Arm

Overview Robots that have an arm for gripping and grasping may be asked to pick up objects with a wide variety of shapes, weights, sizes, and colors. One particularly challenging job for a robot is to grasp shiny or transparent objects, whose translucence or reflections may fool the robotic vision system. Tellex and colleagues invented a robotic arm...

Published: 6/6/2024 | Inventor(s): Stefanie Tellex, John Oberlin

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Category(s): Computer Vision, Machine Vision, Robotics

Sequence-to-Sequence Language Grounding of Non-Markovian Task Specifications

Overview There are existing ways to translate a person’s instructions for a robot into a series of logical functions that the machine can execute to achieve the goal, such as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). Such approaches are powerful, but they are also technical and complex; a non-expert could not be expected to learn this language to communicate...

Published: 6/6/2024 | Inventor(s): Stefanie Tellex

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Category(s): Robotics, Software

Probabilistic Object Models for Robust, Repeatable Pick-and-Place

Overview Picking up an object is one of the simplest tasks a person can perform. For a robot, however, such a task requires a suite of surprisingly complex abilities. The machine must have a capable grasping hand capable of exerting just the right amount of force—enough to avoid dropping the object, but not so much as to crush it. The robot must...

Published: 6/6/2024 | Inventor(s): Stefanie Tellex, John Oberlin

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Category(s): Robotics, Software

Multi-Object Search Using Object-Oriented POMDPs

Overview The robots of the future may be called upon to search for a variety of objects and to do so in unfamiliar territory. An established method called Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) allows a robot to make decisions in the correct order even faced with uncertain conditions. However, these POMDPs struggle to keep pace...

Published: 6/6/2024 | Inventor(s): Stefanie Tellex, Arthur Richard Wandzel

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Category(s): Robotics, Software, Natural Language Processing

Accurately and Efficiently Interpreting Human-Robot Instructions of Varying Granularities

Overview Robots that work alongside humans must be able to understand directions and instructions in natural language. But not all instructions are created equal. For example, a human operating a forklift intuitively understands the difference between what researchers would call a high-level action, like “grab a pallet,” and a low-level...

Published: 6/6/2024 | Inventor(s): Stefanie Tellex, Lawson Wong, Nakul Gopalan, Dilip Arumugam, Siddharth Karamcheti

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Category(s): Robotics, Natural Language Processing, Software

Teaching Robots to Draw

Overview Modern robotic arms have been trained to mimic the motions of the human arm to perform tasks humans would otherwise need to do. This includes industrial robots that were created to handle radioactive or biohazardous waste that would be dangerous for humans to touch, as well as robots built to manipulate objects in warehouses or factories....

Published: 10/12/2022 | Inventor(s): Stefanie Tellex, Atsunobu Kotani

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Category(s): Robotics

Mechanism for Efficient Stiffness Modulation of Springs

Summary Vanderbilt researchers have developed a novel variable stiffness spring mechanism that affords low energy cost stiffness adaptation. Essentially, the energy cost of changing the stiffness of the spring is rendered independent of the energy stored in the spring. Addressed Need Compared to constant stiffness springs, variable stiffness springs...

Published: 7/9/2024 | Inventor(s):

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Category(s): Robotics

Intuitive, Magnetic, Robotic Platform for Minimally-Invasive Surgery

Summary Inventors at Vanderbilt University have developed a robotic platform capable of guaranteeing a degree of agility, mechanical stability, power, reliability, comparable to a standard robotic platform for laparoscopic surgery, but characterized by a much lower invasiveness. Addressed Need In the field of robotic surgery there is strongly required...

Published: 7/26/2021 | Inventor(s):

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Category(s): Medical Devices, Robotics

Transforming a Tactually Selected User Input Into an Audio Output

Transforming a Tactually Selected User Input into an Audio Output Tactually selected user input to audio output brochure Need: Inadequate available means for visually-impaired people to conceptualize spatial and/or other relationships. Solution: Researchers at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo have developed a computer-implemented process and apparatus...

Published: 6/29/2020 | Inventor(s): Fantin Dennis, Carl "Art" MacCarley

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Category(s): Education, Medical Device, Robotics

Continuum Robots with Sensing Capabilities to Adapt Structure

Summary Vanderbilt researchers have developed a continuum robot with the ability to adapt both its length and diameter of its segments. This could help expand the usability and effectiveness of continuum robots.Addressed NeedContinuum robots have high degrees of freedom which allow the arm to move freely. They are typically used within confined spaces...

Published: 10/18/2019 | Inventor(s):

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Category(s): Robotics

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