Soft Robotics Lab receives Amazon Research Awards!
A specific soft gripper design can perform better for certain manipulation tasks. Can we co-optimize robotic gripper designs and their control policies for general manipulation tasks?
At Professor Robert Katzschmann’s Soft Robotics Lab the Amazon Research Award of 99,026 USD will support the work of Mike Yan Michelis and Yasunori Toshimitsu on "Design and Control Optimization of Soft Gripper Mechanisms for Manipulation". The two doctoral students investigate how soft robotic grippers can be computationally improved for robot manipulation tasks by applying gradient-based optimization on the design and control of soft gripper mechanisms.
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A specific soft gripper design can perform better for certain manipulation tasks. Can we co-optimize robotic gripper designs and their control policies for general manipulation tasks? Mike Yan Michelis and Yasunori Toshimitsu from the Soft Robotics Lab want to find out.