Sean P. Walker
Sean P. Walker Clark Center Biorobotics Lab
Room E100
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
My general research interest is to apply learning to robotics, or more specifically, apply learning to the interaction between the robot and the physical world. I am most interested in simple robot behavior problems, such as walking, manipulation, grasping, and responding to simple stimuli. Instead of focusing on specific task implementation, my goal is generalized techniques which allow the robot to adapt to new situations.
My current research is in robot haptics, or the science of robot touch. With my research I hope to determine the necessary sensors and control techniques for three-dimensional multi-fingered manipulation by first exploring touch manipulation within a simplified two-dimensional environment.
Summer 2003 and Summer 2004: CS148: Introductory Computer Graphics
S. Walker and J. K. Salisbury, "Learning Manipulation Maps to Push Objects," awaiting publication in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'08), Pasadena, California, 2008.
S. Walker and J. K. Salisbury, "The Probabilistic Robotics Studio: Interactive Robot Programming," in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR'07), Jeju, South Korea, August 2007.
S. Walker, K. Loewke, M. Fischer, C. Liu, and J. K. Salisbury, "An Optical Fiber Proximity Sensor for Haptic Exploration," in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'07), Roma, Italy, April 2007.
Walker, S., Salisbury, J. K., 2003. Large Haptic Topographic Maps: MarsView and the Proxy Graph Algorithm. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, 83-92.
Choset, H., Walker, S., Eiamsa-Ard, K., Burdick, J., 2000. Sensor-Based Exploration: Incremental Construction of the Hierarchical Generalized Voronoi Graph. The International Journal of Robotics Research 19, no. 2 (2000): 126-148.
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