When: Thursday 12th of June, 1:00pm AEST
Where: This seminar will be partially presented at the ACFR seminar area, J04 lvl 2 (Rose St Building) and partially online via Zoom. RSVP
Speaker: Michael Somerfield
Title: 3D motion planning for legged robots
Abstract:
Many modern motion planners for legged platforms utilise either a reduced order model, or reactive policies for planning footsteps in order to handle the large number of dimensions inherent to many legged platforms. This work investigates the union of graph search, optimisation and invertible neural networks to find novel methods of footstep planning.
Bio:
Michael graduated from Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelors of Engineering (Mechatronics) in 2019. He then worked for a robotics start-up (Universal Field Robots) for a number of years before returning to university for a PhD. He has worked on all sorts of robots in all kinds of environments, from multi-ton autonomous excavators in underground mines, to autonomous driving in the deserts of Coober Pedy, to legged robots at UQ and with the ACFR & ARIAM Hub.