Today we brought our VERO robot to the Genova Smart Week 2024! This event was a great opportunity to showcase how VERO can contribute to a more efficient and sustainable future for cities.
#VERO #Robotics #SmartCity #GenovaSmartWeek
Our latest research introduces a robust Invariant Extended Kalman Filter that uses proprioceptive sensors and robust cost functions to minimize the impact of slippage and outlier measurements. 🚀
Results: Reduced pose drift by up to 40% over 450m compared to current methods!
Our visiting PhD student, Hilton Marques Santana, is presenting this work today Saturday 23/11 at the IEEE RAS HUMANOIDS Conference during Interactive Session 1 (Foyer 850) from 10:30 to 11:30. Read more about the research: lnkd.in/dKKnKRfQ
Dynamic Legged Systems lab retweeted
Exploiting morphological symmetries can enhance model-free RL sample efficiency, policy optimality, and sim2real transfer in legged locomotion and manipulation. Our #IROS2024 paper exploits these symmetries for RL methods. Code is open-sourced: 🌐 bit.ly/SymLoco🧵
Human-robot and robot-robot collaborative carrying with mobile robots typically requires a manipulator arm. At #IROS24, we introduce PACC, a novel passive-arm design that, coupled with a decentralized MPC, allows an efficient execution of such tasks with quadruped robots.
Authors: Giulio Turrisi (@valenorf), Lucas Schulze, Vivian S. Medeiros, Claudio Semini, Victor Barasuol
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2403.19862
Presentation: Quadruped Locomotion, Friday 18, 18:15-18:30 PM, GMT+4
Model Predictive Control (MPC) for legged robots is limited by model complexity. In our #IROS24 paper, we show how partitioning the robot into smaller subsystems, each controlled in parallel by a faster dedicated MPC, can achieve complex whole-body motions more efficiently.
Authors: Lorenzo Amatucci, Giulio Turrisi (@valenorf), Angelo Bratta , Victor Barasuol , Claudio Semini
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2403.11742
Presentation: Robust and Adaptive Control II, Friday 18, 10:45-11:00 PM, GMT+4
Code: github.com/iit-DLSLab/DWMPC
Authors: Giulio Turrisi (@valenorf), Valerio Modugno (@Valerio_Modugno), Lorenzo Amatucci, Dimitrios Kanoulas (@dkanou), Claudio Semini
PDF: arxiv.org/pdf/2403.11383
Presentation: Locomotion Control session, Friday 18, 17.00 PM GMT+4
Code: github.com/iit-DLSLab/Quadru…
We are hiring:
1 Technical Project Manager for Space Robotics and Teleoperation and
1 Software Engineer for Loco-Manipulation on Quadruped Robots
📧 For more info and to apply, visit:
lnkd.in/dxVeif9v
📅 Deadline: Open until filled
#JobOpening #ProjectManager
We are super happy that our latest research project, VERO, has been featured in the IEEE Spectrum Magazine (which is sent to over 400'000 IEEE members worldwide) under the article titled "Robot Dog Vacuums With Its Feet"
spectrum.ieee.org/files/6602…
#VERO #RobotDog #GreenRobotics
Dynamic Legged Systems lab retweeted
VERO, a legged robot by Dynamic Legged Systems Lab, cleans hard-to-reach areas, like beaches and parks, using foot-mounted vacuum nozzles to efficiently remove cigarette butts from challenging terrains.
YouTube / @DynamicLeggedSystemslab
🚀 VERO is out on @IEEESpectrum !
spectrum.ieee.org/robot-dog-…
VERO is a Vacuum-cleaner Equipped RObot that can assist people in cleaning beaches, small alleys, and parks, particularly for removing cigarette butts, in terrains hard to reach for wheeled and tracked
robots.
For more technical details, read our latest publication in the Journal of Field Robotics (lnkd.in/dw-g72Pe).
Thanks to the authors Lorenzo Amatucci, Giulio Turrisi, Angelo Bratta, Victor Barasuol, Claudio Semini.
Further information:
lnkd.in/dm8YptwG
Excited to present our work at #L4DC: "Dynamics Harmonic Analysis of Robotic Systems: Application in Data-Driven Koopman Modelling".
Join us at our poster session on Wed at 16:15!
🔗 Website and code: danfoa.github.io/DynamicsHar…📷 Paper: proceedings.mlr.press/v242/o…
"The DLS lab presents at the 21st Int. Conf. on Ubiquitous Robots (UR2024) with 2 papers:
Paper 1: Abati et al. “Panoptic-SLAM: Visual SLAM in Dynamic Environments”.
Paper 2: Bratta et al. “ContactNet: Online Multi-Contact Planning for Acyclic Legged Robot Locomotion”.
Paper 1 Link & Code:
Link: iit-dlslab.github.io/papers/…
Code: github.com/iit-DLSLab/Panopt…