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Simulation of GelSight Sensors of Complex Morphologies
Existing simulation methods are limited to flat GelSight sensors. We introduce a method for curved GelSight sensors such as the GelTip.
Daniel Fernandes Gomes
,
Paolo Paoletti
and
Shan Luo
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April 24, 2023
Predicting Future Observations and Grasp Success for Robotic Grasping
Predicting the outcome candidate actions requires reasoning about the future. Can we exploit unsupervised learning of the environment model to aid this task?
Daniel Fernandes Gomes
,
Wenxuan Mou
,
Paolo Paoletti
and
Shan Luo
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December 31, 2022
YAROK - Yet another robot framework
Programming robotics software is combersome, requiring orchestrating multiple complex parts. YAROK offers platform-independent composable components that bundle robot description and controller for wider reusability.
Daniel Fernandes Gomes
and
Shan Luo
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October 6, 2022
GelSight Simulation for Sim2Real Learning
Simulation accelerates and opens access to robotics research. We introduce a novel approach for simulating the GelSight tactile sensors in the commonly used simulators.
Daniel Fernandes Gomes
,
Tudor Jianu
,
Achu Wilson
,
Paolo Paoletti
and
Shan Luo
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May 28, 2021
GelTip: A Finger-shaped Optical Tactile Sensor for Robotic Manipulation
Touch is a vital sense for object manipulation. We propose a finger-shaped sensor that can sense high-resolution contacts on any location of its surface.
Daniel Fernandes Gomes
,
Zhonglin Lin
and
Shan Luo
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March 7, 2020
GarmNet: Improving Global with Local Perception for Robotic Laundry Folding
We propose a novel end-to-end deep learning model named GarmNet that is able to simultaneously localize the garment and detect landmarks for grasping.
Daniel Fernandes Gomes
,
Shan Luo
and
Luis Filipe Teixeira
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March 2, 2019
Lidaco: A Modular Wind Lidar Data Converter
Working with experimental data requires reading from and writing to multiple data formats. We created a highly configurable and modular converter that enables setting up readers and writters in an any-to-any fashion
Daniel Fernandes Gomes
,
João Correia Lopes
,
Nikola Vasiljevic
,
Tobias Claas
and
Renato Abreu
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December 31, 2018
WindsPT: An e-Science Platform for Wind Measurement Campaigns
We developed an e-science platform that enables the planning and execution of experimental campaigns, and the dissemination of the collected wind measurements.
Daniel Fernandes Gomes
,
João Correia Lopes
,
José Laginha Palma
et. al
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December 30, 2018