PR2 Workshop 2012 – Willow Garage Photo Roundup!
Willow Garage has released their photo and video set of the PR2 Workshop!
Check it out here – http://people.willowgarage.com/trips/freiburg_pr2_ws_2012/gallery/
Archive for April, 2012
PR2 Workshop 2012 – Roundup
The week-long PR2 Workshop in Freiburg was a success!
Approximately 40 people participated in the workshop, which primarily consisted of a hackathon. Participants were divided into six teams with people from multiple different institutions. Teams tackled a variety of problems related to the ICRA sushi challenge (coming to ICRA this year!).
The sushi challenge presents a number of interesting and tricky problems. A comprehensive solution would have to deal with a multitude of uncertainties. Here are a few of the challenges that the teams at the workshop focused on:
Check out the video of Stephen’s team’s achievements:
The forthcoming wrapup from Willow Garage will provide a comprehensive overview of all that was achieved. Watch this space!
Below are a few photos from the hackathon. Check out our flickr album for even more!
PR2 Workshop 2012 – Dish Stacking
This week, most of the group is in Freiburg, Germany for the PR2 Workshop, graciously hosted by Wolfram Burgard’s group. This workshop is mostly a hackathon for the ICRA 2012 Sushi Boat Mobile Manipulation Challenge. Participant from various research groups were split into six teams to explore different approaches and aspects of the challenge, with people from Brown Robotics on five of these teams. Stephen’s group had a nice dish stacking demo working by the end of the second day.
However, Stephen might be more famous for this video: