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  • Conference paper
    Calandra R, Ivaldi S, Deisenroth MP, Peters Jet al., 2015,

    Learning Torque Control in Presence of Contacts using Tactile Sensing from Robot Skin

    , 2015 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Publisher: IEEE

    Whole-body control in unknown environments ischallenging: Unforeseen contacts with obstacles can lead topoor tracking performance and potential physical damages ofthe robot. Hence, a whole-body control approach for futurehumanoid robots in (partially) unknown environments needsto take contact sensing into account, e.g., by means of artificialskin. However, translating contacts from skin measurementsinto physically well-understood quantities can be problematicas the exact position and strength of the contact needs to beconverted into torques. In this paper, we suggest an alternativeapproach that directly learns the mapping from both skinand the joint state to torques. We propose to learn suchan inverse dynamics models with contacts using a mixtureof-contactsapproach that exploits the linear superimpositionof contact forces. The learned model can, making use ofuncalibrated tactile sensors, accurately predict the torquesneeded to compensate for the contact. As a result, tracking oftrajectories with obstacles and tactile contact can be executedmore accurately. We demonstrate on the humanoid robot iCubthat our approach improve the tracking error in presence ofdynamic contacts.
  • Conference paper
    Kryczka P, Kormushev P, Tsagarakis N, Caldwell DGet al., 2015,

    Online Regeneration of Bipedal Walking Gait Optimizing Footstep Placement and Timing
  • Conference paper
    Kormushev P, Demiris Y, Caldwell DG, 2015,

    Kinematic-free Position Control of a 2-DOF Planar Robot Arm
  • Journal article
    Calandra R, Seyfarth A, Peters J, Deisenroth MPet al., 2015,

    Bayesian Optimization for Learning Gaits under Uncertainty

    , Annals in Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Vol: 76, Pages: 5-23, ISSN: 1012-2443

    Designing gaits and corresponding control policies is a key challenge in robot locomotion. Even with a viable controller parametrization, finding near-optimal parameters can be daunting. Typically, this kind of parameter optimization requires specific expert knowledge and extensive robot experiments. Automatic black-box gait optimization methods greatly reduce the need for human expertise and time-consuming design processes. Many different approaches for automatic gait optimization have been suggested to date. However, no extensive comparison among them has yet been performed. In this article, we thoroughly discuss multiple automatic optimization methods in the context of gait optimization. We extensively evaluate Bayesian optimization, a model-based approach to black-box optimization under uncertainty, on both simulated problems and real robots. This evaluation demonstrates that Bayesian optimization is particularly suited for robotic applications, where it is crucial to find a good set of gait parameters in a small number of experiments.
  • Conference paper
    Deisenroth MP, Ng JW, 2015,

    Distributed Gaussian Processes

    , 2015 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Publisher: Journal of Machine Learning Research

    To scale Gaussian processes (GPs) to large datasets we introduce the robust Bayesian CommitteeMachine (rBCM), a practical and scalableproduct-of-experts model for large-scaledistributed GP regression. Unlike state-of-theartsparse GP approximations, the rBCM is conceptuallysimple and does not rely on inducingor variational parameters. The key idea is torecursively distribute computations to independentcomputational units and, subsequently, recombinethem to form an overall result. Efficientclosed-form inference allows for straightforwardparallelisation and distributed computations witha small memory footprint. The rBCM is independentof the computational graph and canbe used on heterogeneous computing infrastructures,ranging from laptops to clusters. With sufficientcomputing resources our distributed GPmodel can handle arbitrarily large data sets.
  • Journal article
    Carrera A, Palomeras N, Hurtós N, Kormushev P, Carreras Met al., 2015,

    Cognitive System for Autonomous Underwater Intervention

    , Pattern Recognition Letters, ISSN: 0167-8655
  • Conference paper
    Wahlstrom N, Schon TB, Deisenroth MP, 2015,

    Learning Deep Dynamical Models From Image Pixels

    , 17th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, SYSID 2015
  • Conference paper
    Carrera A, Palomeras N, Hurtos N, Kormushev P, Carreras Met al., 2015,

    Learning multiple strategies to perform a valve turning with underwater currents using an I-AUV
  • Conference paper
    Jamali N, Kormushev P, Carrera A, Carreras M, Caldwell DGet al., 2015,

    Underwater Robot-Object Contact Perception using Machine Learning on Force/Torque Sensor Feedback
  • Conference paper
    Kormushev P, Demiris Y, Caldwell DG, 2015,

    Encoderless Position Control of a Two-Link Robot Manipulator

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