1 code implementation • IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2022 • Travers Rhodes, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, and Daniel D. Lee
Learning intricate manipulation skills from human demonstrations requires good sample efficiency.
1 code implementation • 31 Jul 2022 • Jan Ondras, Di Ni, Xi Deng, Zeqi Gu, Henry Zheng, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
The ability to deform soft objects remains a great challenge for robots due to difficulties in defining the problem mathematically.
no code implementations • 7 Jul 2022 • Jan Ondras, Abrar Anwar, Tong Wu, Fanjun Bu, Malte Jung, Jorge Jose Ortiz, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
While existing robotic systems for feeding people with mobility limitations focus on solitary dining, commensality, the act of eating together, is often the practice of choice.
no code implementations • 3 Aug 2021 • Ryan Rowe, Shivam Singhal, Daqing Yi, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
We examine the problem of desk organization: learning how humans spatially position different objects on a planar surface according to organizational ''preference''.
no code implementations • 3 Dec 2020 • Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Henry M. Clever, Joshua Wade, Charles C. Kemp
We also found that robots can overcome this ambiguity using two temperature sensors with different temperatures prior to contact.
Material Recognition Robotics
no code implementations • 13 Nov 2020 • Liyiming Ke, Jingqiang Wang, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Byron Boots, Siddhartha Srinivasa
Billions of people use chopsticks, a simple yet versatile tool, for fine manipulation of everyday objects.
no code implementations • 5 Nov 2020 • Ethan K. Gordon, Sumegh Roychowdhury, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Kevin Jamieson, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Our key insight is that we can leverage the haptic context we collect during and after manipulation (i. e., "post hoc") to learn some of these properties and more quickly adapt our visual model to previously unseen food.
no code implementations • 19 Aug 2019 • Ethan K. Gordon, Xiang Meng, Matt Barnes, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
A successful robot-assisted feeding system requires bite acquisition of a wide variety of food items.