Mobile Robot Navigation

Fast Perception, Planning, and Execution for a Robotic Butler: Wheeled Humanoid M-Hubo

We propose a unique strategy of integrating a 3D object detection pipeline with a kinematically optimal manipulation planner to significantly increase speed performance at runtime. In addition, we develop a new robotic butler system for a wheeled humanoid that is capable of fetching requested objects at 24% of the speed a human needs to fulfill the same task.

Sensor-Based Mobile Robot Navigation via Deep Reinforcement Learning

We propose a novel model for mobile robot navigation using deep reinforcement learning. In our navigation tasks, no information about the environment is given to the robot beforehand. Additionally, the positions of obstacles and goal change in every episode. In order to succeed under these conditions, we combine several Q-learning techniques.