3 accepted papers
We estimate the state of a noisy robot arm and underactuated hand using an implicit Manifold Particle Filter (MPF) informed by contact sensors. As the robot touches the world, its state space collapses to a contact manifold that we represent implicitly using a signed distance field. This allows us t…
A robot with a hand-mounted depth sensor scans a scene. When the robot's joint angles are not known with certainty, how can it best reconstruct the scene? In this work, we simultaneously estimate the joint angles of the robot and reconstruct a dense volumetric model of the scene. In this way, we per
We describe Chisel : a system for real-time house-scale (300 square meter or more) dense 3D reconstruction onboard a Google Tango mobile device by using a dynamic spatially-hashed truncated signed distance field for mapping, and visual-inertial odometry for localization. By aggressively culling part…