New Robotic Control System Simplifies Programming
Engineers at EPFL developed a new robotic control system called 'Kinematic Intelligence' that simplifies programming by allowing skills to transfer between robots with different mechanical designs. The system was successfully tested with three commercial robots performing a task demonstrated by a human.
Engineers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a new framework that makes it possible to teach a skill to robots with different mechanical designs. The concept, called 'kinematic intelligence,' takes a human-demonstrated task, mathematically converts it into a general movement strategy, and adapts it for different robots. The framework was tested in an assembly line experiment where a human demonstrated a task involving pushing, placing, and throwing a wooden block. Three different commercial robots were able to reproduce the task safely and reliably using Kinematic Intelligence. The system performed successfully even when the step allocation was changed among the robots. The EPFL team aims to extend the framework to settings such as human-robot collaboration and natural language-based interaction.
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