[TriEmbed] Fwd: January 5 - IEEE Robotics&Automation / TAR meeting

Rodney Radford ncgadgetry at gmail.com
Mon Jan 5 16:22:11 CST 2015


Never too late to just show up
On Jan 5, 2015 3:58 PM, "Christopher Svec" <christophersvec at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is it too late to just show up? I recently moved to the area and Shane's
> email was the first I heard of this.
>
> (I work for iRobot.)
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Rodney Radford <ncgadgetry at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, definitely a meeting tonught!
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "Rodney Radford" <ncgadgetry at gmail.com>
>> Date: Dec 27, 2014 2:22 PM
>> Subject: January 5 - IEEE Robotics&Automation / TAR meeting
>> To: "trianglerobotics" <trianglerobotics at yahoogroups.com>
>> Cc:
>>
>> A reminder of the January presentation - We will be watching the 2014
>> ROSCon presentation on NASA's Robonaut and then having a Q&A with Allison
>> Thackston.
>>
>> https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/31027
>>
>> Robonaut is a humanoid robot that has been deployed to the ISS to assist
>> astronauts on the station. Eventual goals include fixing things - both
>> insided and outside the station.
>>
>> Allison Thackston is the Robotics Perception lead for the project and has
>> done work including the following:
>>
>> - Developed the safety monitoring systems for Robonaut 2 including
>> velocity monitoring, force and torque monitoring, and momentum monitoring.
>> - Managed interaction with TopCoder for crowd sourcing software
>> development.
>> - Support Nasa's open source simulator for Robonaut 2 by updating to
>> latest ROS and Gazebo releases
>> - Wrote api and kinematics controller for Robonaut 2 wrist in ROS/Orocos
>> - Updated kinematics controller to utilize task driven iterative solving
>> methods optimizing for minimum kinetic energy, singularity avoidance, and
>> joint limit avoidance.
>> - Wrote autonomous vision perception algorithms for challenging
>> environments for on orbit ops.
>> - Designed and implemented a new vision perception architecture, enabling
>> Robonaut to use open source libraries such as OpenCV, LTI-Lib, and SWIFT,
>> as well as proprietary libraries such as HALCON
>> - Implemented a hybrid force/kinematic controller
>> - Wrote / updated ROS nodelet drivers for imaging systems
>>
>> Please join us for this exciting opportunity!   If you are planning to
>> attend, please register so we can plan on the amount of food and drink for
>> the meeting.
>>
>>
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