Sensor Systems Laboratory
Inventing new technology for sensing, robotics, wireless power, and medical devices
Milton and Delia Zeutschel Professor
Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington
Robotic Pile Sorting and Manipulation
Pile Sorting Researchers
Lillian Chang, CI Fellow Postdoc
Joshua R. Smith, Associate Professor
Dieter Fox, Associate Professor
Pile Sorting Research Partners
Robotics and State Estimation Lab
Department of Computer Science
University of Washington
Summary
We are investigating strategies for robot interaction with piles of objects and materials in cluttered scenes. In particular, interaction with unstructured sets of objects will allow a robot to explore and manipulate novel items, in order to perform useful tasks such as counting, arranging, or sorting even without having a prior model of the objects.
Pile Sorting Publications
Interactive Singulation of Objects from a Pile, Lillian Chang, Joshua R. Smith, Dieter Fox, submitted to ICRA 2012.
Interactive Singulation of Objects from a Pile, Lillian Chang, Joshua R. Smith, Dieter Fox, IROS 2011 PR2 Workshop.