Autonomous Robots

Rovers operating on Mars have been delayed, diverted, and trapped by loose granular materials. Vision-based mobility prediction cannot reliably distinguish hazardous sand from safe sand based on appearance alone. Unlike surface appearance, the …

This paper presents the design and optimization of a self-adaptive, a.k.a. underactuated, finger targeted to be used with collaborative robots. Typical robots, whether collaborative or not, mostly rely on standard translational grippers for …

In recent years, flow sensing has gotten the attention of the robotics community as an exteroceptive sensing modality, in addition to the conventional underwater sensing modalities of vision and sonar. Earlier works on flow sensing for robotics …

While any grasp must satisfy the grasping stability criteria, good grasps depend on the specific manipulation scenario: the object, its properties and functionalities, as well as the task and grasp constraints. We propose a probabilistic logic …