Developing a theory of cloth deformation under manipulation, by link machine learning and computational topology methods
Iintegration of task planning and geometric motion planning.
Developing an integrated system for teaching basic cloth manipulation skills to a robot.
On 2019 October 10th, CLOTHILDE team received the visit of researchers from the Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes (LIS), Aix-Marseille Université, France.
The guests were Professor Alexandre Bac, Professor Aldo González-Lorenzo and their PhD Student Ludovic Grosse.
The field of ethics in the interaction between humans and robots is receiving a lot of interest, and several ideas have recently appeared principally in the kind of ethics that are desirable. In this first symposium celebrated July 23rd 2019, we paid attention to the practical implementation and the feasibility of embedding these behaviors in current robots.
A debate moderated by Guillem Alenyà was conducted with Pablo Jiménez, Alberto Olivares, Alejandro Suárez and Irene García, with the presence of all the members of the P&M Lab.
On 2019 July 19th, CLOTHILDE team received the visit of Dr. Eren Erdal Aksoy from Halmstad University, Sweden.
Dr. Aksoy offered a research seminar to IRI:
Title: A Holistic View on Manipulation Semantics: From Robot Perception to Execution
On June 20th, CLOTHILDE team received the visit of Dr. Thomas Feix, researcher of the FUTURE team of ADIDAS.
In this meeting Dr. Feix was able to get to know the research of the IRI Perception and Manipulation group and there were discussions about grippers designs and different approaches to taxonomy.
On June 4, EuRobotics Board of Directors visited IRI and in addition to visiting the whole centre, they were able to get to know first hand the research being carried out in Clohtilde project and IRI's Perception and Manipulation Group.
The days 24 and 25th April 2018, Prof. Florian T. Pokorny, from the School of Computer Science and Communication, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, offered a Workshop on Topology to the CLOTHILDE members at the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC
He presented his work around motion planning and clustering up to homology classes, and also force-closure vs caging-based approaches to manipulation and the state of the art.
The European Research Council (ERC) grants are aimed at supporting the best researchers in the search for excellence in science, a basic pillar of the Horizon 2020 European research and innovation funding program. ERC Advanced Grants provide long term funding for established, leading principal investigators that pursue ground-breaking high-risk projects.
The CLOTHILDE project
