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2013 L.E. Zhang, S. Lyu and J.C. Trinkle. A Dynamic Bayesian Approach to Real Time Estimation and Filtering in Grasp Acquisition. IEEE Conference on Robotics and ...

Reading Group Presentation Schedule (2013 Spring) Shuai 4/12 Topic: Dynamic Regrasping Using a High speed Multifingered Hand and a High speed Vision System ...

RPI MATLAB Simulator The RPI MATLAB Simulator (RmS) is tool for research and education in multi body dynamics. RmS is designed and organized to be extended. Its ...

Year Degree Name First Position 2013 MS Matt Dallas 2013 BS visitor Rohinish Gupta IIT Kanpur 2013 PhD visitor Giuseppe Muscio ...

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Technical Notes Item Lists Notes (Old) Documentation (Doxygen File) dVC2d Installation Guide dVC3D Installation Guide Graspit! Installation Guide ...

Kinect Calibration Intrinsic Calibration (Optional, but recommended) Reference link: http://ros.org/wiki/openni launch/Tutorials/IntrinsicCalibration The openni camera ...

Events October 20, 2012: The Lab held an open house for visiting high school students and their families. October 3, 2012: We visited an automated dry cleaning ...

Instructions for Running the WAM with ROS and OWD We have switched controller for the WAM from Matlab/xPC Target to using the Driver in ROS. Before attempting to run ...

TrackingTools The TrackingTools package talks to the Windows machine over VRPN to get the pose of the trackables and the positions of all of the markers. Whenever ...

Harris grasping project aims to develop grasping algorithms that automatically grasp objects in underwater scenarios, mostly for object(s) or object parts that sit ...

ExperimentIO Overview The ExperimentIO Library is a ROS package to make writing ROS nodes that will run individual experiments very simple. It is written to abstract ...

Visit the lab in the Materials Research Center (MRC) for driving to campus Map with the MRC building marked The MRC building is on College Avenue between the Experimental ...

Colloquium Speakers 2012 Berenson Worcester Polytechnic Institute 2011 Lyu University of Albany Dollar Yale University Cappelleri ...

Matlab Controller for Barrett WAM We have built off of the Simulink code given to us by University of New Mexico to create joint space and Cartesian space controllers ...

GPE Client Overview This package is a utility package for the GPE Client Executor experiment. It aids in communication abstracts communication with the server form ...

WAM Experiments Overview WAMExperiments is a ROS package that contains programs that implement a given experiment. An experiment is implemented as a ROS node. This ...

WSG50 Overview The WSG50 library is independent of ROS, but works seamlessly within an experiment node. It provides the most commonly used functionality for the ...

WAM Utilities WAMUtilities is a ROS package that contains several utilities that aid in using OWD within ROS. It contains several nodes. All of these nodes are located ...

Grasing Experiment Progress Below is a link to our recent progress with grasping experiments performed on the grasping testbed defined below: Grasping Experiment ...

Instructions for Running the Arm with xPC Target NOTE: These instructions are for running the WAM with the xPC target controller. We have switched to using OWD under ...

Grasping experiments with newly upgraded 7 dof arm Reactive Grasping II: Description: Robot reacting to contact to achieve a successful grasp on a cinder block shaped ...

Comparison of Simulated and Experimental Grasping Actions in the Plane Planar Grasping Testbed Motivated by the possibility of using simulation for prediction ...

Local Repository of Testbed Videos used for Will Macaluso's (M.S. 2012) Thesis A repository of 420 compressed planar testbed videos, used in my thesis located here ...

Uncompressing/Compressing Planar Testbed Videos Testbed videos, if saved as RGB24 .AVI files, can easily be over 1 GB in size each. If you need to save or archive ...

RPI Rules for Undergraduate Research Projects http://undergrad.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey 136 Past Undergraduate Research Projects Hans Vorsteveld 2011 ...

Graspit Columbia Manual: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cmatei/graspit/html manual/graspit manual.html Step by step Graspit Installation Instructions: Graspit Installation ...

Graspit! Installation Graspit! is a powerful grasp planning and analysis tool. It has been recently integrated into ROS and maintained by Willow Garage. The original ...

Main Hardware OptiTrack optical tracking system with 9 camera Barrett Technologies 7DOF Whole Arm Manipulator Barrett Technologies BH 8 series Hand ...

Awards November 2011. Jeff Trinkle is awarded the "Guest Professorship for Autonomous Manipulation" at University of Freiburg. January 2011. Li (Emma ...

Undergraduate Students: To join the Lab, send the following three things to trink at cs.rpi.edu : (1) a short description of what sort of robotics problems interest ...

Project Areas The projects listed below are of central importance to the research of our lab. However, you may propose a project not listed here, combine parts of ...

Introduction Rapid prototyping is the production of an item using an additive manufacturing technology. Where subtractive manufacturing generally takes a large piece ...

Here is the README located in the blend file that will inform any person who decides to continue this work Author: Kane Hadley Date: August 29, 2011 File: shaker ...

dVC3d : an accurate physics engine What new July 2011: dVC3d version 1.1 released! New interface to make it works better with newer Bullet versions. A new ...

Proximal Point Formulation Solver for dVC2D For more information, see MS Thesis, Jeremy Betz JeremyBetz 2011 08 09

KaneHadley 2011 07 12 To checkout a repo from the svn server: 1) Ask the lab's admin group to add you to the group of users that can access the repository. (Kane Hadley ...

Planar Testbed Contact Sensors This project is a simple set up consisting of a Flexiforce force sensors from Tekscan, a simple circuit mounted on a breadboard, and ...

KaneHadley 2011 07 12 To checkout a repo from the svn server: 1) Ask the lab's admin group to add you to the group of users that can access the repository. 2) svn ...

KaneHadley 2011 06 23 All the software I used was 32 bit. Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 CMake Python 3.1 1) Download the source code of the tool : http://www.cs ...

The Application of Particle Filtering to Grasping Acquisition with Visual Occlusion and Tactile Sensing Planar Grasping Testbed Why is autonomous grasping ...

G SLAM: The Application of Particle Filtering to Grasping Acquisition with Visual Occlusion and Tactile Sensing Experimental Grasping Test Bed using Matlab/Simulink ...

Matlab/Simulink and Barrett WAM Presented at NEMS 2010 pdf The Robotics Department at University of New Mexico (Professor Greg Starr, Matt Courtney) has developed ...

Grasp Database The RPI Robotics Lab has created a Grasp Database for storing and analyzing grasps. Currently the database is still in the development stages. It has ...

Matlab Motion Capture System In this section, we explain how we access and use data from the tracking system from Matlab. Calls to API From Matlab, we are able to ...

Grasp Acquisition Database The Grasp Acquisition Database is designed with the intent of being a flexible collection of data from a variety of different sources. ...

Robotics II dVC 2D Homework Assignments Homework files can be submitted to betzj2 AT cs.rpi.edu . Please submit your files in a single archive file, naming it ...

Impedance Control for Barrett WAM in MATLAB Simulink Presentation pdf Building upon the lab's existing Simulink PID controller for the WAM, an impedance controller ...

dVC2d Installation Guide This guide will step you through the process of installing dVC2d, and its graphical frontend, dvcQt. Install dVC2d in Windows For a fully ...

You will need the Qt Windows source, not the MinGW executable installer. As of January, 2011 it is required to use Qt4. Download the appropriate Qt source Download ...