Lecture

Learning and Adaptive Control for Robots: Overview and Path Planning

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MICRO-462: Learning and adaptive control for robots

To cope with constant and unexpected changes in their environment, robots need to adapt their paths rapidly and appropriately without endangering humans. this course presents method to react within millisecunds. ...

Description

This lecture by the instructor covers the course format, materials, and resources for learning and adaptive control for robots. It delves into the challenges faced by real-time planners, the use of dynamical systems for path planning, and the application of impedance control and online trajectory planning. The lecture emphasizes the need for real-time planning in dynamic environments and the integration of machine learning with control laws. Practical sessions involving real robots are highlighted, along with the importance of stability guarantees in learned controllers.

Instructor

Aude Billard

Expertise RoboticsMachine LearningArtificial IntelligenceHuman-Robot InteractionMechatronicsDynamical Systems ControlComputational Neuroscience Aude Billard is full professor and head of the LASA laboratory at the School of Engineering at the Swiss Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), and the Director of the Swiss Innovation Booster on Robotics. Dr. Billard acts as the President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), after serving in several roles in the administrative and executive committe

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Mechanical engineering

Robotics: Topics in robotics

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An autonomous robot is a robot that acts without recourse to human control. The first autonomous robots environment were known as Elmer and Elsie, which were constructed in the late 1940s by W. Grey Walter. They were the first robots in history that were programmed to "think" the way biological brains do and meant to have free will. Elmer and Elsie were often labeled as tortoises because of how they were shaped and the manner in which they moved. They were capable of phototaxis which is the movement that occurs in response to light stimulus.

Mobile robot

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Domestic robot

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