6 accepted papers
DeepL Voice is a real-time speech-to-speech translation system for global business communication, following a pragmatic incremental approach: developing a production-grade cascaded speech-to-speech-translation (S2ST) system, while exploring end-to-end solutions in parallel. The production system (la
Despite impressive advances of humanoid robotics, the autonomous planning of whole-body loco-manipulation actions in unknown environments is still an open problem. In our previous work, we addressed two fundamental aspects related to this problem: 1) the autonomous detection of end-effector contact…
We propose a computational formalization of affordances, which is able to consistently combine affordance-related evidence resulting from different observations. We represent affordances as Dempster-Shafer belief functions defined over the space of end-effector poses, which can be combined using unc
This work presents the concept of a robotic gripper designed for the disassembly of electromechanical devices that comprises several innovative ideas. Novel concepts include the ability to interchange built-in tools without the need to grasp them, the ability to reposition grasped objects in-hand, t…
Robotic coverage path planning describes the problem of determining a configuration space trajectory for successively covering a specified workspace target area with the robot's end-effector. Performing coverage path planning for mobile robots further requires solving the problem of robot placement,…
We propose a formalism for the hierarchical representation of affordances. Starting with a perceived model of the environment consisting of geometric primitives like planes or cylinders, we define a hierarchical system for affordance extraction whose foundation are elementary power grasp affordances…