AWARD    MERL Researchers Win Best Workshop Poster Award at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Date released: June 6, 2023

  •  AWARD    MERL Researchers Win Best Workshop Poster Award at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
  • Date:

    June 2, 2023

  • Awarded to:

    Yuki Shirai, Devesh Jha, Arvind Raghunathan and Dennis Hong

  • Description:

    MERL's paper titled: "Closed-Loop Tactile Controller for Tool Manipulation" Won the Best Poster Award in the workshop on "Embracing contacts : Making robots physically interact with our world". First author and MERL intern, Yuki Shirai, was presented with the award at a ceremony held at ICRA in London. MERL researchers Devesh Jha, Principal Research Scientist, and Arvind Raghunathan, Senior Principal Research Scientist and Senior Team Leader as well as Prof. Dennis Hong of University of California, Los Angeles are also coauthors.

    The paper presents a technique to manipulate an object using a tool in a closed-loop fashion using vision-based tactile sensors. More information about the workshop and the various speakers can be found here https://sites.google.com/view/icra2023embracingcontacts/home.

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  • External Link:

    https://sites.google.com/view/icra2023embracingcontacts/home

  • Research Areas:

    Artificial Intelligence, Optimization, Robotics

    •  Shirai, Y., Jha, D.K., Raghunathan, A., Hong, D., "Closed-Loop Tactile Controller for Tool Manipulation", ICRA 2023 Workshop on Embracing contacts. Making robots physically interact with our world, May 2023.
      BibTeX TR2023-043 PDF Video
      • @inproceedings{Shirai2023may,
      • author = {Shirai, Yuki and Jha, Devesh K. and Raghunathan, Arvind and Hong, Dennis},
      • title = {Closed-Loop Tactile Controller for Tool Manipulation},
      • booktitle = {ICRA 2023 Workshop on Embracing contacts. Making robots physically interact with our world},
      • year = 2023,
      • month = may,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-043}
      • }
    •  Shirai, Y., Jha, D.K., Raghunathan, A., Hong, D., "Tactile Tool Manipulation", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), DOI: 10.1109/​ICRA48891.2023.10160480, May 2023, pp. 12597-12603.
      BibTeX TR2023-023 PDF Video
      • @inproceedings{Shirai2023may2,
      • author = {Shirai, Yuki and Jha, Devesh K. and Raghunathan, Arvind and Hong, Dennis},
      • title = {Tactile Tool Manipulation},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      • year = 2023,
      • pages = {12597--12603},
      • month = may,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160480},
      • isbn = {979-8-3503-2365-8},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-023}
      • }