SGTM 2.0: Autonomously Untangling Long Cables using Interactive Perception

no code implementations • 27 Sep 2022 • Kaushik Shivakumar, Vainavi Viswanath, Anrui Gu, Yahav Avigal, Justin Kerr, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Richard Cheng, Thomas Kollar, Ken Goldberg

Cables are commonplace in homes, hospitals, and industrial warehouses and are prone to tangling.

Autonomously Untangling Long Cables

no code implementations • 16 Jul 2022 • Vainavi Viswanath, Kaushik Shivakumar, Justin Kerr, Brijen Thananjeyan, Ellen Novoseller, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Alejandro Escontrela, Michael Laskey, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Ken Goldberg

Cables are ubiquitous in many settings and it is often useful to untangle them.

Management

Disentangling Dense Multi-Cable Knots

no code implementations • 4 Jun 2021 • Vainavi Viswanath, Jennifer Grannen, Priya Sundaresan, Brijen Thananjeyan, Ashwin Balakrishna, Ellen Novoseller, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Michael Laskey, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Ken Goldberg

Disentangling two or more cables requires many steps to remove crossings between and within cables.

Untangling Dense Knots by Learning Task-Relevant Keypoints

no code implementations • 10 Nov 2020 • Jennifer Grannen, Priya Sundaresan, Brijen Thananjeyan, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Ashwin Balakrishna, Minho Hwang, Vainavi Viswanath, Michael Laskey, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Ken Goldberg

HULK successfully untangles a cable from a dense initial configuration containing up to two overhand and figure-eight knots in 97. 9% of 378 simulation experiments with an average of 12. 1 actions per trial.