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Jean-François Tremblay

Doctorat - McGill University
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e

Publications

Learning active tactile perception through belief-space control
Jean-François Tremblay
Johanna Hansen
Francois Hogan
Robot operating in an open world can encounter novel objects with unknown physical properties, such as mass, friction, or size. It is desira… (voir plus)ble to be able to sense those property through contact-rich interaction, before performing downstream tasks with the objects. We propose a method for autonomously learning active tactile perception policies, by learning a generative world model leveraging a differentiable bayesian filtering algorithm, and designing an information- gathering model predictive controller. We test the method on three simulated tasks: mass estimation, height estimation and toppling height estimation. Our method is able to discover policies which gather information about the desired property in an intuitive manner.