{"591107":{"#nid":"591107","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Point-and-Click Method Makes Robot Grasping Control Less Tedious","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIEEE Spectrum talked about how between the full manual and point-and-click grasping approaches shown in the above video, the researchers, from Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Robot Autonomy and Interactive Learning (RAIL) lab, led by Professor Sonia Chernova, also implemented a middle ground \u0026ldquo;constrained positioning\u0026rdquo; method, which intelligently limits the amount of degrees of freedom that a user needs to position. Instead, the user needs to select only a grasp point, approach angle, and grasp depth.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead more here:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/robotics-software\/point-and-click-method-robot-grasping-control\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/robotics-software\/point-and-click-method-robot-grasping-control\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28466","created_gmt":"2017-04-28 17:17:48","changed_gmt":"2017-04-28 17:17:48","author":"Meghana Melkote","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"\u00a0Linda Wills","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/robotics-software\/point-and-click-method-robot-grasping-control","dateline":{"date":"2017-03-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-03-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}