Alphonsus Adu-Bredu @aadubredu Twitter profile

GitHub - adubredu/t265.jl: Julia package for interfacing with the Intel Realsense T265 Tracking...

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

2 years

Thank you!

Michigan Robotics

@UMRobotics

2 years

Congratulations to PhDs Alphonsus Adu-Bredu and Anthony Opipari on receiving the @QCOMResearch Innovation Fellowship! Read:

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Presenting Fabrics.jl: A Julia package that implements Geometric Fabrics for a diverse set of planar dynamical systems. @JuliaComputing @robot_trainer

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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Julia package for interfacing with Intel realsense T265 tracking camera. Fast data transmission rate at 34kHz.

Julia package for interfacing with the Intel Realsense T265 Tracking camera - adubredu/t265.jl

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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Chopin has a nocturne for every occasion

Chopin Nocturnes

Performed by François Chaplin piano.

GitHub - adubredu/PyBullet.jl: A light-weight Julia wrapper for the awesome PyBullet Physics...

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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Introducing PyBullet.jl, a lightweight Julia package for using the PyBullet physics simulator in Julia. Because why not?? @JuliaLanguage @JuliaComputing

A light-weight Julia wrapper for the awesome PyBullet Physics Simulator - adubredu/PyBullet.jl

Antonio Salieri De Profundis

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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To set goals is to specify your conditions for failure.

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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Salieri was a genius

This was sent me by a friend, it is arguably the best rendition of Salieri's "De Profundis" that I have ever heard!

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

3 years

standing controller on digit. Dojo.jl is darn cool! @taylorhowell

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

4 years

How should robots exploit the low uncertainty estimation capabilities of modern perception systems when planning for domestic tasks? We propose an online planning algorithm to do just that! A colab with Zhen Z., Neha P. & Chad Jenkins @UMRobotics Link:

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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Dynamic programming is just clever back substitution of a sparse matrix.

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

3 years

A blog post on optimization:

On Optimization -

A characteristic trait of humans, at least most of us, is the drive to solve problems. From the days of … Continue ReadingOn Optimization

On Semantic Robot Programming for Goal-Directed Manipulation in Cluttered Scenes -

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

4 years

Rwanda deploys health-care robots to assist in checking temperatures, keeping medical records and monitoring COVID-19 patients. @africaiknow Story here:

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

3 years

this is freaking cool!

JuliaCon 2024

@JuliaConOrg

3 years

Genify.jl: Transforming Julia into Gen for Bayesian inference presented online at JuliaCon 2021 by Xuan (Tan Zhi Xuan) #JuliaLang #JuliaCon #coding #opensource

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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Indeed

Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸

@pmarca

1 year

THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO part 1 “You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.” — Walker Percy “Our species is 300,000 years old. For the

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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Great work on direct force feedback control for aerial manipulation. Link to paper:

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

5 years

Here are my thoughts on Semantic Robot programming, a framework for declarative robot programming developed by Professor Chad Jenkins et. al of @UMRobotics

In robotics research, numerous ways of communicating a goal to a robot have been explored. Prominent among them is communication … Continue ReadingOn Semantic Robot Programming for Goal-Directed...

On the realization of the dream of domestic assistant robots -

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

3 years

Made like him, like him we rise Ours the cross, the grave, the skies

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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QP MPC is functionally LQR with inequality constraints

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

4 years

An amazing work on Low-Inertia High-Stiffness manipulators for a dual arm robot. Link to paper:

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

4 years

"A picture is a surface that always specifies something other than what it is" - J.J. Gibson

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

3 years

boom

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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The optimal place to be is on the boundary between chaos and order.

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

5 years

My thoughts on the realization of the dream of domestic-assistant robots

My fascination about the idea of domestic assistant robots began when I first watched Meet the Robinsons on a Cathode … Continue ReadingOn the realization of the dream of domestic assistant robots

Antonio Salieri De Profundis

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

4 years

"The romantic ideal of a big pile of circuitry that learns to be intelligent cannot be achieved. We have to design an agent with lots of structure and many small, circumscribed learning problems." -The Disillusionment in RL. Leslie P. Kaelbling, 1995

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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@pmarca

This was sent me by a friend, it is arguably the best rendition of Salieri's "De Profundis" that I have ever heard!

On a Usefulness Metric for robots -

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

4 years

How do we determine how useful a robot is? In this blog post, I propose the Usefulness Metric; a metric for comparing the usefulness of domestic robots in performing the tasks we need them to perform. Link to blog post:

The last ten years has seen a significant spurt of new domestic robots developed with the aim of being deployed … Continue ReadingOn a Usefulness Metric for robots

Skill discovery through Skill Chaining -

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

5 years

Here's a summary of my understanding, thoughts and questions about Skill Chaining, a robot skill-discovery algorithm developed by Prof. George Konidaris of @BrownBigAI

When I plan to visit a new city, say Pittsburgh, for a conference, I generally do not plan in terms … Continue ReadingSkill discovery through Skill Chaining

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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Introducing Cartbot: a low-cost, adaptive mobile base for robotic applications

Presenting CARTBOT

We present CARTBOT, an easily configurable mobile base for robotic applications.

GitHub - alankbi/detecto: Build fully-functioning computer vision models with PyTorch

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

5 years

"A suitable symbolic representation of a domain depends on the skills available to the agent." -George Konidaris

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

4 years

Detecto is an awesome, easy-to-use python package for object detection. Thanks @alankbi ! Link:

Build fully-functioning computer vision models with PyTorch - alankbi/detecto

On the Psychological Significance of the Death and Resurrection - Jordan Peterson -

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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@billcobbinah_ This song triggers a primal part of my brain. It makes me want to live in the wild and wrestle with gorrillas.

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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Brilliant lecture on Perception, Abstractions and Affordances:

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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"Open wide the mind's cage-door She'll dart forth and cloudward soar" -John Keats

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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@JuliaComputing @robot_trainer @JuliaLanguage When you don't care about balance control...

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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An essay on the psychological significance of the death and resurrection by @jordanbpeterson

By Jordan B. Peterson Easter Sunday is the appropriate time to be considering both the impossible claim of the bodily … Continue ReadingOn the Psychological Significance of the Death and Resurrection...

On Sequential Scene Understanding and Manipulation -

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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Here's a summary of my thoughts and questions about SUM: A sequential scene understanding and manipulation algorithm developed by Professor Chad Jenkins and collaborators at @UMRobotics

While cheerily performing their chores at home, domestic-assistant robots will often come across a clutter of empty detergent containers, the … Continue ReadingOn Sequential Scene Understanding and...

Map-independent Online Generation of Alternate Paths for Fast Local...

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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Map-Independent Online Generation of Alternate Paths for Fast Local planning, Obstacle Avoidance and waypoint following for CARTBOT

The video shows Cartbot, an inexpensive mobile base, demonstrating the obstacle avoidance and waypoint following capabilities of a local planner I developed ...

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

4 years

@billcobbinah_ To be fair, it's a JP inspired quote. My life's goal is to come up with a quote as brilliant as this is. All I've managed so far is: "she looks like melting iced cake". Disappointing, I know.

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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On insect navigation

On Insect Navigation -

July 8, 2020 My fascination with insect navigation began roughly a couple of weeks ago when I hurt my little … Continue ReadingOn Insect Navigation

Voice-controlled fridge for Assistive Robotics applications

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

3 years

@theoadubredu Thanks Basty!

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

5 years

Check out our new work on voice-controlled mini-fridge for assistive robotics applications

We present a voice-activated fridge we developed for use by people with physical disabilities. Work by Chenlu Wu and Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

How much AI should we build in vs. learn? Tenenbaum, Clune, Precup,...

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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2019 ICLR debate on how much to build in vs. learn when creating AI. Featuring Josh Tenenbaum, Jeff Clune, Doina Precup, Leslie Kaelbling, and Suchi Saria

stephane-caron - Overview

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

5 years

@Deep__AI @peteflorence

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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Introducing Cartbot 3.0

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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"The right symbolic state representation depends on the skills available to the agent" -George Konidaris

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Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

@aadubredu

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@locoscaron 's Github account and blog are caves of precious robotics gems for legged locomotion! I appreciate your work @locoscaron ! Thanks! and and

Likes open source robots. stephane-caron has 44 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.