Perception and Manipulation in Robotics

The research of the PERCEPTION AND MANIPULATION group focuses on enhancing the perception, learning, and planning capabilities of robots to achieve higher degrees of autonomy and user-friendliness during everyday manipulation tasks, especially of deformable objects. Some topics addressed are the geometric interpretation of perceptual information (RGB-D vision, force and torque), the 3D modeling of rigid and flexible objects, action selection and planning, reinforcement learning, and teaching by demonstration.