Activities¶
I enjoy participating in robotics competitions, especially when they overlap with research goals.
KUKA Innovation Award 2020 - Medical Robotics¶
I led a team from the Izatt and Kuo labs to enter our robotically-aligned OCT system into the KUKA Innovation Award 2020 competition. Our application involved translating our system to use a KUKA LBR Med for improved motion tracking while retaining human-safe operation. We were selected amongst a group of four finalists to compete at MEDICA 2020, which was held virtually due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.
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Amazon Robotics Challenge¶
I led a team of undergraduate and graduate students to compete in the 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge held at ROBOCUP in Nagoya, Japan. Our entry featured a novel hierarchical, transactional state management system that facilitated online and offline debugging of the application’s inner state machine. Prof. Kris Hauser sponsored the team. I also competed in the inaugural Amazon Picking Challenge in 2015.
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References
M. C. Aubert, A. W. Draelos, M. Draelos, Y. Feng, H. He, B. Keller, J. Li, B. Vincent, F. Wang, S. Wu, K. Zhou, T. Zhu, and K. Hauser. A rapid development methodology for an autonomous warehouse picking robot. In Warehouse Picking Automation Workshop at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). May 2017.