ICRA 2021 Workshop on Legged Robots (Towards Real-World Deployment of Legged Robots)

Title: Dynamic Loco-Manipulation

Abstract
In this talk I will summarize our recent results on combining locomotion and manipulation using legged robots. The idea is to use legs not just for locomotion but also for manipulation. We will see how bipedal and quadrupedal robots can be used for manipulating a ball, a payload, and even a blind-folded human. I will present simulation and experimental results demonstrating loco-manipulation.

Bio
Koushil Sreenath is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, at UC Berkeley. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, MI, in 2011. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the GRASP Lab at University of Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2013 and an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University from 2013 to 2017. His research interest lies at the intersection of highly dynamic robotics and applied nonlinear control. His work on dynamic legged locomotion on the bipedal robot MABEL was featured on The Discovery Channel, CNN, ESPN, FOX, and CBS. His work on dynamic aerial manipulation was featured on the IEEE Spectrum, New Scientist, and Huffington Post. His work on adaptive sampling with mobile sensor networks was published as a book entitled Adaptive Sampling with Mobile WSN (IET). He received the Best Paper Award at the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Conference in 2013, and the Google Faculty Research Award in Robotics in 2015.

This video was part of the ICRA 2021 5th Workshop on Legged Robots.
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