Robotics PhD at Georgia Tech making robot art under Frank Dellaert + Seth Hutchinson

Joined January 2020
Hypothesized mechanism: lipo charge ICs stop charging below a certain cutoff voltage for safety reasons. Sitting in a discharged state for too long will cause them to gradually self-discharge below the cutoff voltage. Heating them up increases the voltage which might be …
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Wondering what’s the deal with robot art? Definitely give this 5min video a watch! Peter gives an amazing review on the evolution of robot painting, highlighting some past robots, future ideas, and why you should care. Robots advancing art AND art advancing robotics.
Our ICRA@40 video shows some of the history of robot painting projects, the challenges these roboticists faced, and how they made core contributions to the field of Robotics. It doesn't have to be Robotics for Arts, it can be Arts for Robotics! youtu.be/M3D9cWNf7r0?si=AsOo…
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Come learn about robot painting in just under 3 hours :) youtube.com/live/A9RHRchK8m4… Starts 1pm ET / 10am PT / 19h CET / 17:00 UTC
In a little over a week, I'll be sharing 5 years worth of learnings about robot painting, including cable robot control, optimization, and embodied generative AI! (deets 👇) Additionally, if you want to make your very own graffiti art with my robot, DM me within the next week :)
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In a little over a week, I'll be sharing 5 years worth of learnings about robot painting, including cable robot control, optimization, and embodied generative AI! (deets 👇) Additionally, if you want to make your very own graffiti art with my robot, DM me within the next week :)
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(In case it wasn't clear, this is my PhD Thesis Dissertation Defense 😉) Mon Aug 19 @ 1pm-2pm ET Livestream: youtube.com/live/A9RHRchK8m4… Rendering, Replicating, and Adapting Human Motions on a Cable Robot for Artistic Painting Additional info: gerry-chen.com/publications/…
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Committee members: @fdellaert @sethahutchinson @JeanOhCmuBIG @danfei_xu Jun Ueda Obviously, major thanks to my advisors & collaborators!
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.@gtcomputing We’re only 2 weeks away from @ieee_ras_icra Check out all of the amazing Georgia Tech Presentations dropping in Yokohama! research.gatech.edu/robotics… #ICRA2024 #Robotics @ieeeras @GTResearchNews
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#IROS2024 paper submission deadline postponement to March 15 is unexpected but much appreciated 😅 Curious if anyone knows why 🤔😄
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.@gtcomputing ❤️ getting up close action shots with the artist & roboticist team of Tristan Al-Haddad and Ph.D. candidate in robotics and friend Gerry Chen at the GT Library of their work on the Polycentric Truthes mural! Read more here library.gatech.edu/news/poly… @gchenfc
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Thanks so much @ChristaErnst1 ! We'll be finishing up the painting at Price Gilbert library tomorrow and Thursday - DM me for deets if you're interested in watching it paint! No sweat if you can't make it on short notice: mural & robot will be on display for a little while :)
Love getting up close action shots with the artist & roboticist team of Tristan Al-Haddad and Ph.D. candidate in robotics and friend Gerry Chen at the GT Library of their work on the Polycentric Truthes mural😍Read more here library.gatech.edu/news/poly… @gchenfc @GTResearchNews
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Huge thanks @MissManci organizing @GTLibrary Artist-in-Residence program for Tristan Al-Haddad & me :)
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Excited to share that our work on trajectory retiming was accepted to #ICRA2024! Traditional "time-optimal" trajectory retiming saturates control limits to minimize time (bang-bang), but this has negative consequences on closed-loop control stability and premature robot/tool wear
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We replace the time-optimal objective with quadratic terms to balance multiple objectives such as control margin and speed. We leverage the special structure of the resulting QP to solve it in O(n) using factor graphs! with @fdellaert @sethahutchinson youtu.be/MSK--soXtRY?si=Ic_o…
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This Christmas, for fun, I created an illustrated children's book using ChatGPT-4/DALL-E 3. It's not winning any awards but I've developed some opinions about strengths/weaknesses/workflows/outlook. 🧵
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[4/5] Style & character consistency among pages was lacking. I didn't try very hard on this, and I know there's several recent works addressing this (especially re: video gen), but out-of-box, trying to get *multiple* characters accurate with consistent styling is hard.
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Overall, a fun experience that is leaps and bounds better & faster than I could do myself, but still took ~7hrs for 20 pages, with most of the time being editing-out characters. Could probably re-do in ~3hrs knowing what I know now. Read more: gerry-chen.com/blog/2023-12-… :) [5?/5]
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