Robotics Engineer @BostonDynamics | @NorthwesternU MS. Robotics Graduate | Lebanese 🇱🇧 | https://xitter.cf/t.co/Dre5Dme4F2 👾
Joined August 2020
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Super fun and accessible project! Check out the custom Pybullet Env (Gazebo coming soon) or learn how to build your own Spot for an affordable price! Stay tuned for real-world validation of our novel RL method for locomotion!
Excited to share "Spot Mini Mini", an open source Boston Dynamics inspired Spot robot for <$600 done by my student Maurice @NorthwesternU Robotics! We also develop RL wrapped IK with 12pt Bezier gait! Check out blog post+repo:
github.com/moribots/spot_min…
moribots.github.io/project/s…
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Ever wonder how rotation matrices, axis/angle vectors, and quaternions are really related? The exponential and logarithmic maps allow us to translate between representations—and even average rotations.
Learn how, interactively: thenumbat.github.io/Exponent…
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Here's a typical drive on Tesla FSD Beta, and why it's the opposite of useful. It's most certainly not even close to being "safer than a human", by any factor.
22-minute drive, 4.5 miles, and WAY too many interventions.
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This summer I've been working to finally understand Lie Theory, the basis for proper estimation on over-parameterised manifolds like SE(3). There are some great tutorials for the roboticist out there; I especially like Micro Lie Theory by Solà et al. arxiv.org/abs/1812.01537
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Parkour is the perfect sandbox for the Atlas team to experiment with new behaviors. Through jumps, balance beams, and vaults, we push Atlas to its limits to discover the next generation of mobility, perception, and athletic intelligence. bit.ly/3iTIxco
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🎉Life update🤘: Really excited to share that I'll be joining @YaleSEAS as an Assistant Professor in Mech. Eng. starting in Jan 22'!
My lab will focus on developing algorithms at the intersection of robotic learning and control with an emphasis on active learning.
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Our paper "Whole-Body MPC and Online Gait Sequence Generation for Wheeled-Legged Robots" is accepted for #IROS2021 in #Prague!
Check out the full video: youtu.be/_rPvKlvyw2w
#Robotics #Robots
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Super excited to share my first PhD paper "Move Beyond Trajectories: Distribution Space Coupling for Crowd Navigation" at @RoboticsSciSys with Francesca Baldini, @PeteTrautman and @todd_murphey !
PDF: arxiv.org/pdf/2106.13667.pdf
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=dpJUbM0I…
Amazing!
ICYMI, #ROSWorld presentations have been uploaded. If you missed my technical session you can watch the full video here: vimeo.com/480603868 . Thanks to @OpenRoboticsOrg for this great opportunity to share my work to the community.
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Check out this very cool project developed by Marcel Bonnici—a member of our Master of Science in Robotics cohort—on fast food automation using LEGO bricks. youtu.be/hqWUat3Safk
The paper is out! Check out sites.google.com/view/d2gmbc… for more info!
"Dynamics and Domain Randomized Gait Modulation with Bezier Curves for Sim-to-Real Legged Locomotion" paper out in arxiv!
arxiv.org/abs/2010.12070
Thanks @sim2realAIorg for RT!
Authors: @moribots, myself, Matt, @todd_murphey
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Recorded Turing Lecture: Building dynamic robots with @BostonDynamics Marc Raibert is now up. Thanks Prof @sethuvij for hosting this. Full video here: youtu.be/yLtdzJ6mVMk
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👏 SIMULATED👏 ROBOT👏 DANCE 👏 OFF 👏
You can now run 7 quadrupedal robots in Gazebo
From left to right:
Open Quadruped
Champ
Mini Cheetah
OpenDogV2
Aliengo
Spot
Anymal
#goROS
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After hours of testing, I'm thrilled to announce that you can now run the MIT Mini Cheetah in Gazebo using github.com/chvmp/champ. #goROS