I recently joined ICLR 2022 to receive an award for our 3rd place at the ManiSkill Challenge 2021, and present our related paper Improving performance on the ManiSkill Challenge via Super-convergence and Multi-Task Learning.
Here is a list of works presented at ICLR 2022 main conference or workshops that I …
more ...Going back on the experience on the Space Robotics Challenge, one thing that strikes me is how close we were to a great result, but something was still missing to be among the top teams.
The winning team apparently solved this by using a 2d simulation. As a matter of …
more ...I have been wondering what are the features that would make for an ideal smart home for me. What are the constraints that need to be fullfilled by a smart home?
A home main usage is to provide shelter (protecting from the enviromnent) and comfort. So care …
more ...As part of my work in Team L3 for the Space Robotics Challenge Phase 2, I developped a Behavior Tree library that was used to specify the virtual rover behavior and qualify us as finalists.
While Finite State Machines (FSMs) have a long history of being used in robotics, their …
more ...I am currently on a controller for robots with independently steerable wheels.
The robots have to perform complex maneuver in team, and in this context, we want to be able to control not only the direction of movement, but also being able to track and keep aligned with a target …
more ...It's been decades that we talk about Smart Home and more generally Smart Buildings, but adoption still seems limited. IoT and robotics being in the spotlight these days, can we expect more adoption soon?
Let's check some of the challenges for smart home/ building services, and what progress have been …
more ...I had been wondering for sometime: can I buy carbon credits to offset my activity? I live in Japan, and go to Europe around once a year. The carbon impact of those trips basically doubles my carbon footprint.
I have once been offered by an airline company to offset my …
more ...Let me share some visualization sketches from early March 2020, that I used to communicate around me about the upcoming pandemic.
This first one depicted the individual cases detected in Japan and the known links between them. It shows that early on, systematic contact tracing could not be achieved and …
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