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August 31 2011
What the iCub Does During Holidays
Leo here at IDSIA has been working on a really nifty nice demo of what you can do with the iCub simulator, if you are willing to get your hands dirty and go into the code. The following video shows the outcome.
iCub Dancing Rave
How cool is that?! This is the simulator with a changed dome and some nifty floor tiling. Okay the sunglasses I think is scripted but the rest is using a beat detector which sends the commands via YARP to the simulator.
Some Coding
Finally I wanna put some info online about what I actually do here at IDSIA. Right now I am mainly working on the iCub robot and I am currently looking into some computer vision related problems, like image segmentation and object detection (for object manipulation later on). Here is a small teaser of what we are currently working on....
We recently started looking into getting some position data out of the 2D images and the kinematic chain of the robot, but we are not really happy with the results. To gather some data I worked on some piece of code to automatically do just that. To use this data as either training of test set for our approach (as well as a benchmarking) related to the object placement. Hopefully we get it working on the real HW soon too..
More info to come at a later stage ...
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