Eugene Frizza

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Head in the gutter: constrained nonlinear optimisation

December 22, 2024

What's the best way to cut a straight line to fit a curve?

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Recreating VINN: The Surprising Effectiveness of Representation Learning for Visual Imitation

October 22, 2024

Reimplementing the VINN paper, a non-parametric way of behaviour cloning direct from data.

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A first attempt at imitation learning for robotic manipulation from scratch

September 6, 2024

I created a basic imitation learning policy from the ground up to see what it could learn. Spoiler - not much.

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So you've got your robot arm - what now?

August 11, 2024

How to start with a robot arm - from first motions in simulation to the real world. Inverse kinematics, trajectories, position control, velocity control, in MuJoCo and on an Ufactory Lite 6.

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Why is underwater robotics so difficult?

June 3, 2024

Marine robotics is an area with huge potential for impact, but most people have very little idea about it. Here I explain some of the unique and interesting challenges that come with creating a robot for an underwater environment.

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