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Dan Helmick

3 accepted papers

2024

A Direct Semi-Exhaustive Search Method for Robust, Partial-to-Full Point Cloud Registration

IROS 2024poster

Point cloud registration refers to the problem of finding the rigid transformation that aligns two given point clouds, and is crucial for many applications in robotics and computer vision. The main insight of this paper is that we can directly optimize the point cloud registration problem without co…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

Demonstrating Mobile Manipulation in the Wild: A Metrics-Driven Approach

RSS 2023poster

We present our general-purpose mobile manipulation system consisting of a custom robot platform and key algorithms spanning perception and planning. To extensively test the system in the wild and benchmark its performance, we choose a grocery shopping scenario in an actual, unmodified grocery store.…

2020

A Mobile Manipulation System for One-Shot Teaching of Complex Tasks in Homes

ICRA 2020poster

We describe a mobile manipulation hardware and software system capable of autonomously performing complex human-level tasks in real homes, after being taught the task with a single demonstration from a person in virtual reality. This is enabled by a highly capable mobile manipulation robot, whole-bo…

Cited by 36SourceScholar