I work with Aaron Bobick and Jim Rehg on the problem of affordance learning for autonomous mobile robots. I am interested in building perception systems tightly coupled with the manipulation strategies at hand. Primarily my work focuses on tabletop manipulation strategies using the PR2 robot.
From 2006-2009 I was a member of the Northern Bites SPL RoboCup team advised by Eric Chown. We won in 2007 placed third in 2008 and were runner-up in 2009.
In the Fall of 2008 I worked with two other Bowdoin students on a computer forensics project for the Maine State Police. This got somepress.
Tucker Hermans, James M. Rehg, Aaron F. Bobick. "Decoupling Behavior, Perception, and Control for Autonomous Learning of Affordances." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2013. [PDF],[Video:large,small],[BIBTEX]
Tucker Hermans, James M. Rehg, Aaron F. Bobick. "Decoupling Behavior, Control, and Perception in Affordance-Based Manipulation." IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): Workshop on Cognitive Assistive Systems, Vilamoura, Portugal, October 2012. [PDF], [BIBTEX], [Slides]
Tucker Hermans, James M. Rehg, Aaron Bobick. "Guided Pushing for Object Singulation." IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, Portugal, October 2012. [PDF], [BIBTEX], [Slides], [Video]
Akansel Cosgun, Tucker Hermans, Victor Emeli, Mike Stilman. "Push Planning for Object Placement on Cluttered Table Surfaces." IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Francisco, USA, September 2011. [PDF], [Video], [BIBTEX]
Tucker Hermans, James M. Rehg, Aaron Bobick. "Affordance Prediction via Learned Object Attributes." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA): Workshop on Semantic Perception, Mapping, and Exploration, Shanghai, China, May 2011. [PDF], [Slides], [BIBTEX]
Howard Zhou, Tucker Hermans, Asmita V. Karandikar, James M. Rehg. "Movie Genre Classification via Scene Categorization." ACM Multimedia, Firenze, Italy, October 2010.: [PDF], [Poster], [Data], [BIBTEX]
Henry Work, Eric Chown, Tucker Hermans, Jesse Butterfield, Mark McGranaghan. "Player Positioning in the Four-Legged League." RoboCup 2008: 391-402. [PDF], [BIBTEX]
Henry Work, Eric Chown, Tucker Hermans, Jesse Butterfield. "Robust Team-Play in Highly Uncertain Environments." The Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Estoril, Portugal, May 2008: 1199-1202. [PDF], [BIBTEX]
Tech Reports
Tucker Hermans, Johannes Strom, George Slavov, John Morrison, Andrew Lawrence, Elise Krob, Eric Chown. "Northern Bites Team RoboCup 2009." Bowdoin College, 2009. [PDF]
Eric Chown, Jeremy Fishman, Johannes Strom, George Slavov, Tucker Hermans, Nicholas Dunn, Andrew Lawrence, John Morrison, Elise Krob. "The Northern Bites 2008 Standard Platform Robot Team." Bowdoin College, 2008. [PDF]
