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.
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.
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.
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.
no code implementations • 13 Jul 2023 • Vincent Schorp, Will Panitch, Kaushik Shivakumar, Vainavi Viswanath, Justin Kerr, Yahav Avigal, Danyal M Fer, Lionel Ott, Ken Goldberg
Accurate 3D sensing of suturing thread is a challenging problem in automated surgical suturing because of the high state-space complexity, thinness and deformability of the thread, and possibility of occlusion by the grippers and tissue.