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December 2010 Best Paper At Humanoids!

Congratulations to Jon Scholz! Our paper "Combining Motion Planning and Optimization for Flexible Robot Manipulation" received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robotics.



J. Scholz and M. Stilman. Combining Motion Planning and Optimization for Flexible Robot Manipulation. In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robotics, 2010.

The paper focuses on framing complex multi-object manipulation tasks such as table cleaning as reinforcement learning problems. In order to overcome the complexity of this challenge which makes it infeasible to solve through pure experimentation we introduce a new approach: first learning models of manipulation actions and then searching for feasible paths that result in optimized goals.


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