Patents by Inventor Tucker Ryer Hermans

Tucker Ryer Hermans 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: 12223949
    Abstract: A robotic system is provided for performing rearrangement tasks guided by a natural language instruction. The system can include a number of neural networks used to determine a selected rearrangement of the objects in accordance with the natural language instruction. A target object predictor network processes a point cloud of the scene and the natural language instruction to identify a set of query objects that are to-be-rearranged. A language conditioned prior network processes the point cloud, natural language instruction, and the set of query objects to sample a distribution of rearrangements to generate a number of sets of pose offsets for the set of query objects. A discriminator network then processes the samples to generate scores for the samples. The samples may be refined until a score for at least one of the sample generated by the discriminator network is above a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Jason Paxton, Weiyu Liu, Tucker Ryer Hermans, Dieter Fox
  • Publication number: 20240386733
    Abstract: In various examples, 3D object knowledge can be developed to extract diverse knowledge from large language models, and a part-grounding model can be trained to ground part semantics in terms of local shape features and spatial relations between parts. For example, knowledge that “the opening part of a mug that affords the pouring action is located on the top of the mug body and is often circular” can be grounded by identifying a previously unknown “opening” part based on its spatial relation to the known “body” part and its circular shape. A robotic system, for example, may use a model to identify an unlabeled part of a 3D object in imaging data. The model may be generated using natural language descriptions of relationships between parts of 3D objects, with descriptions generated using a language model that produces text in response to queries related to spatial relationships between the parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Animesh GARG, Dieter FOX, Tucker Ryer HERMANS, Weiyu LIU
  • Publication number: 20240338598
    Abstract: One embodiment of a method for generating simulation data to train a machine learning model includes generating a plurality of simulation environments based on a user input, and for each simulation environment included in the plurality of simulation environments: generating a plurality of tasks for a robot to perform within the simulation environment, performing one or more operations to determine a plurality of robot trajectories for performing the plurality of tasks, and generating simulation data for training a machine learning model by performing one or more operations to simulate the robot moving within the simulation environment according to the plurality of trajectories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Caelan Reed GARRETT, Fabio TOZETO RAMOS, Iretiayo AKINOLA, Alperen DEGIRMENCI, Clemens EPPNER, Dieter FOX, Tucker Ryer HERMANS, Ajay Uday MANDLEKAR, Arsalan MOUSAVIAN, Yashraj Shyam NARANG, Rowland Wilde O'FLAHERTY, Balakumar SUNDARALINGAM, Wei YANG
  • Publication number: 20240184291
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform inference to determine a trajectory based at least in part on a loss function including a cost associated with an amount of divergence between a set of terminal states and a set of goal states within a goal region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Tucker Ryer Hermans, Jana Pavlasek, Fabio Tozeto Ramos
  • Publication number: 20230405820
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to generate a predicted outcome of an object resulting from a robotic component applying a force. In at least one embodiment, a predicted outcome of an object resulting from a robotic component applying a force is generated based on, for example, a neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Isabella Huang, Yashraj Narang, Tucker Ryer Hermans, Fabio Tozeto Ramos, Ankur Handa, Miles Andrew Macklin, Dieter Fox
  • Patent number: 11745347
    Abstract: Candidate grasping models of a deformable object are applied to generate a simulation of a response of the deformable object to the grasping model. From the simulation, grasp performance metrics for stress, deformation controllability, and instability of the response to the grasping model are obtained, and the grasp performance metrics are correlated with robotic grasp features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORP.
    Inventors: Isabella Huang, Yashraj Shyam Narang, Clemens Eppner, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Miles Macklin, Tucker Ryer Hermans, Dieter Fox
  • Publication number: 20230073154
    Abstract: A robotic system is provided for performing rearrangement tasks guided by a natural language instruction. The system can include a number of neural networks used to determine a selected rearrangement of the objects in accordance with the natural language instruction. A target object predictor network processes a point cloud of the scene and the natural language instruction to identify a set of query objects that are to-be-rearranged. A language conditioned prior network processes the point cloud, natural language instruction, and the set of query objects to sample a distribution of rearrangements to generate a number of sets of pose offsets for the set of query objects. A discriminator network then processes the samples to generate scores for the samples. The samples may be refined until a score for at least one of the sample generated by the discriminator network is above a threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Jason Paxton, Weiyu Liu, Tucker Ryer Hermans, Dieter Fox
  • Publication number: 20220297297
    Abstract: Candidate grasping models of a deformable object are applied to generate a simulation of a response of the deformable object to the grasping model. From the simulation, grasp performance metrics for stress, deformation controllability, and instability of the response to the grasping model are obtained, and the grasp performance metrics are correlated with robotic grasp features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: NVIDIA Corp.
    Inventors: Isabella Huang, Yashraj Shyam Narang, Clemens Eppner, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Miles Macklin, Tucker Ryer Hermans, Dieter Fox