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SUMMARY:Navigating by Touch: Haptic Monte Carlo Localisation for a Legged 
  Robot - Dr Michal R. Nowicki\, Assistant Prof at Poznan University of Tec
 hnology (PUT)
DTSTART:20230418T113000Z
DTEND:20230418T120500Z
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CONTACT:Slawomir Tadeja
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Cyber-Human Lab seminar at IfM\, we have the pl
 easure of hosting two guest speakers from the Poznan University of Technol
 ogy (PUT)\, Poznan\, Poland. The seminars will run one after another from 
 12:00 to 13:15 in Seminar Room 2 at IfM\, West Cambridge. The Cyber-Human 
 Lab seminars are open to everybody.\n\nDr Michal Nowicki\, Assistant Profe
 ssor with PUT\, will deliver the second of the two talks.\n\nAbstract:\n\n
 In this talk\, I will describe our latest developments in haptic localizat
 ion for a legged robot. First\, I will present our approach with terrain c
 lassification that enables the blind localization of the robot using the d
 ense map of the environment. Second\, I will discuss our improved method t
 hat uses compressed haptic signals without explicit terrain class specific
 ation. Finally\, I will show our latest trained haptic localization that l
 earns terrain representation to improve localization performance and can w
 ork with a sparse terrain map to yield the first viable blind haptic local
 ization in a practical teach-and-repeat scenario. The presented research i
 s part of the H2020 THING project.\n\nPresenters Bio:\n\nDr Michal R. Nowi
 cki graduated from Poznan University of Technology (PUT)\, receiving B.Sc.
  in Computer Science and B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Automatic Control and Robotics
 . He received (with honours) PhD in Robotics in 2018 and is currently a Re
 search Assistant Professor at the Institute of Robotics and Machine Intell
 igence at PUT. His research interests include simultaneous localization an
 d mapping (SLAM)\, robot perception\, computer vision\, optimization-based
  techniques in robotics\, and multi-sensory calibration.\n
LOCATION:Institute of Manufacturing (IfM)\, Seminar Room 2
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