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New robotic control software avoids jamming their joints
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Switching from one smartphone to another is mostly a smooth procedure.
Key facts
- The experimental setup included a compact 6-DoF Duatic DynaArm with tight joint limits, a 7-DoF KUKA LWR IIWA 7 with moderate limits, and a 7-DoF Neura Robotics Maira M with much more relaxed
- With new designs come different capabilities and constraints,” said Durgesh Haribhau Salunkhe, an EPFL roboticist and co-author of the study
- And (surprisingly, these days) Kinematic Intelligence was built in an AI-free manner
- Armed with this map, the Kinematic Intelligence framework enables robots to go around their singularities using a strategy the team calls a track cycle
Summary
To fix that, a team of researchers at the Swiss École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has developed what they call Kinematic Intelligence, a framework that makes switching robots work more like switching smartphones. For years, roboticists have been working on getting robots to learn from demonstration—teaching them new skills by showing them what to do, rather than writing lines of code. But robotics is advancing quickly. “With new designs come different capabilities and constraints,” said Durgesh Haribhau Salunkhe, an EPFL roboticist and co-author of the study.