Manipulation

Hello, it's time for my yearly post! The goal of this one is to be a handy reference for behavior cloning as applied to manipulation -- something I've been spending quite a bit of time on over the past 6-9 months. The field has been progressing at an absurdly rapid pace of late (somehow we're at a point where robots can do laundry), so I thought it'd be a good… [Read More]

Let's take a look at how we can set up a framework for streamlined simulation and hardware control of a manipulator. The robot under consideration is Ufactory's Lite6 manipulator and the simulation/setup tool used is Drake. All the code used in this post can be found in my repo. But before we start, some explanations are in order. Lite6? The Lite6 is one of the more economical (not to be… [Read More]