Patents by Inventor Byron Boots

Byron Boots has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11958529
    Abstract: A framework for offline learning from a set of diverse and suboptimal demonstrations operates by selectively imitating local sequences from the dataset. At least one embodiment recovers performant policies from large manipulation datasets by decomposing the problem into a goal-conditioned imitation and a high-level goal selection mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ajay Uday Mandlekar, Fabio Tozeto Ramos, Byron Boots, Animesh Garg, Dieter Fox
  • Publication number: 20240037367
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to infer a sequence of actions to perform using one or more neural networks trained, at least in part, by optimizing a probability distribution function using a cost function, wherein the probability distribution represents different sequences of actions that can be performed. In at least one embodiment, a model predictive control problem is formulated as a Bayesian inference task to infer a set of solutions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Alexander Conrad Lambert, Adam Harper Fishman, Dieter Fox, Byron Boots, Fabio Tozeto Ramos
  • Patent number: 11645492
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to infer a sequence of actions to perform using one or more neural networks trained, at least in part, by optimizing a probability distribution function using a cost function, wherein the probability distribution represents different sequences of actions that can be performed. In at least one embodiment, a model predictive control problem is formulated as a Bayesian inference task to infer a set of solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Conrad Lambert, Adam Harper Fishman, Dieter Fox, Byron Boots, Fabio Tozeto Ramos
  • Publication number: 20220055689
    Abstract: A framework for offline learning from a set of diverse and suboptimal demonstrations operates by selectively imitating local sequences from the dataset. At least one embodiment recovers performant policies from large manipulation datasets by decomposing the problem into a goal-conditioned imitation and a high-level goal selection mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Ajay Uday Mandlekar, Fabio Tozeto Ramos, Byron Boots, Animesh Garg, Dieter Fox
  • Publication number: 20210334630
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to infer a sequence of actions to perform using one or more neural networks trained, at least in part, by optimizing a probability distribution function using a cost function, wherein the probability distribution represents different sequences of actions that can be performed. In at least one embodiment, a model predictive control problem is formulated as a Bayesian inference task to infer a set of solutions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Alexander Conrad Lambert, Adam Harper Fishman, Dieter Fox, Byron Boots, Fabio Tozeto Ramos
  • Publication number: 20200301510
    Abstract: A computer system generates a tactile force model for a tactile force sensor by performing a number of calibration tasks. In various embodiments, the calibration tasks include pressing the tactile force sensor while the tactile force sensor is attached to a pressure gauge, interacting with a ball, and pushing an object along a planar surface. Data collected from these calibration tasks is used to train a neural network. The resulting tactile force model allows the computer system to convert signals received from the tactile force sensor into a force magnitude and direction with greater accuracy than conventional methods. In an embodiment, force on the tactile force sensor is inferred by interacting with an object, determining the motion of the object, and estimating the forces on the object based on a physical model of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Stan Birchfield, Byron Boots, Dieter Fox, Ankur Handa, Nathan Ratliff, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Alexander Lambert