Kristofer Pister — accepted AI-conference papers

2021

Small Autonomous Robot Actuator (SARA): A Solar-Powered Wireless MEMS Gripper

Alex Moreno, Austin Patel, Daniel Teal, Hani C. Gomez, Andrew Fearing, Jan S. Rentmeister +2

ICRA 2021poster

Solar-powered actuation of a 15 mN electrostatic MEMS gripper was demonstrated while wirelessly triggered by IEEE 802.15.4 RF signals. The solar-powered gripper was shown to actuate at a rate of 640 um/s. The complete system is composed of three capacitors and three chips: MEMS gripper, microprocess…

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2019

Data-efficient Learning of Morphology and Controller for a Microrobot

Thomas Liao, Grant Wang, Brian Yang, Rene Lee, Kristofer Pister, Sergey Levine +1

ICRA 2019poster

Robot design is often a slow and difficult process requiring the iterative construction and testing of prototypes, with the goal of sequentially optimizing the design. For most robots, this process is further complicated by the need, when validating the capabilities of the hardware to solve the desi…

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