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 Duration 28 hours

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Foundations of Robotic Manipulation and Deep Learning

  • An overview of manipulation tasks and essential system components
  • Comparing traditional methods with learning-based approaches
  • The role of deep learning in perception, planning, and control

Perception Systems for Manipulation

  • Visual sensing techniques and object detection for grasping
  • 3D vision, depth sensing, and point cloud processing methods
  • Training CNNs for accurate object localization and segmentation

Grasp Planning and Detection

  • Review of classical grasp planning algorithms
  • Learning grasp poses through data and simulation
  • Implementation of grasp detection networks (e.g., GGCNN, Dex-Net)

Control and Motion Planning

  • Inverse kinematics and trajectory generation techniques
  • Learning-based motion planning and imitation learning strategies
  • Reinforcement learning for developing manipulation control policies

Integration with ROS 2 and Simulation Platforms

  • Configuring ROS 2 nodes for perception and control tasks
  • Simulating robotic manipulators in Gazebo and Isaac Sim
  • Integrating neural models to achieve real-time control

End-to-End Learning for Manipulation

  • Unifying perception, policy, and control within comprehensive networks
  • Leveraging demonstration data for supervised policy learning
  • Applying domain adaptation between simulation and physical hardware

Evaluation and Optimization

  • Key metrics for assessing grasp success, stability, and precision
  • Testing performance under diverse conditions and disturbances
  • Model compression and deployment strategies for edge devices

Practical Project: Deep Learning-Driven Robotic Grasping

  • Designing a complete perception-to-action pipeline
  • Training and validating a grasp detection model
  • Integrating the model into a simulated robotic arm setup

Requirements

  • A strong grasp of robotics kinematics and dynamics
  • Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks
  • Experience with ROS or comparable robotic middleware

Intended Audience

  • Robotics engineers developing intelligent manipulation systems
  • Perception and control specialists focused on grasping applications
  • Researchers and advanced practitioners in robot learning and AI-based control

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