justagist / contact_kernels

Contact Distributions implemented as contact kernels as described in "A kernel-based approach to learning contact distributions for robot manipulation tasks" [2017 Auton Robot], Oliver Kroemer, Simon Leischnig, Stefan Luettgen, Jan Peters

About Me

I currently work as Lead Robotics Research Engineer at Dyson, mainly working on control and planning for mobile manipulation robots intended for helping in domestic tasks and environments. My current research focus is on developing a control framework for enabling intelligent and environment-aware locomotion planning and control for different robot formats.

Previously, I was a PhD student in the Intelligent Robotics Lab at the University of Birmingham, working on "Machine Learing for Dexterous Robot Manipulation". The main area of my research was applying Machine Learning techniques to develop a framework that can aid robots to perform changing-contact manipulation tasks in dynamic and unknown environments using different objects.

My Interests

• I like creating robot interfaces and implementing algorithms for testing the capabilities of intelligent robot systems.
• I especially enjoy working with mobile robots and manipulators in the context of assembly tasks involving challenging interaction dynamics and complex control strategies.
• I also like discovering things (codes, algorithms, languages, music, etc.) and trying them out in my own way.

Get in touch

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