Autonomous Navigation with Pepper Robots
We extended the Pepper robot with additional sensors and implemented the powerful ROS navigation stack to achieve autonomous navigation with Pepper.
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Linux
Hokuyo UST-10LX with ROS Setup
In this post I describe how to set up and configure a Raspberry Pi 3 to collect laser data from the Hokuyo UST-10LX sensor via ROS.
Docker + ROS: How to listen to ROS nodes in External Docker Containers
Learn how to configure Docker for comminucation with ROS.
Automatically Backup any Postgres Database Table into a GoogleDrive
Learn how you can backup any Postgress database table into a GoogleDrive folder using two small scripts and the crontab.
Machine Learning
Multi-Objective Deep Reinforcement Learning with Lexicographic Task-priority constraints
In this post I summarize our recent paper and advocate for less reward engineering in favor of constrained RL.
Easy Language Learning with ChatGPT and Python
This post describes how to use ChatGPT with python for easy language (or anything else) learning.
Fun with Graph Neural Networks
Analysis of Graph Neural Networks by comparison to Multilayer Perceptrons on a simple graph-classification task.
Soft Actor Critic: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotics?
This post addresses real life feasibility of deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms and how the Soft Actor Critic algorithm relates to the problem.
Python
Soft Actor Critic: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotics?
This post addresses real life feasibility of deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms and how the Soft Actor Critic algorithm relates to the problem.
Decorate-Sort-Undecorate: List Sorting in Python
Understand the 'Decorate-Sort-Undecorate' idiom for advanced sorting in python.
Automatically Backup any Postgres Database Table into a GoogleDrive
Learn how you can backup any Postgress database table into a GoogleDrive folder using two small scripts and the crontab.