Eric Chu

TL;DR: A simple but robust approach to both pre-touch grasp adjustment and grasp planning for unknown objects in clutter, using a small-baseline stereo camera attached to the gripper of the robot and a feature-based cost function on local 3D data.

TL;DR: This paper explored how criteria for socially just climate change adaptation and resilience-building are articulated and embedded within urban planning and decision-making, and found that cities are variably operationalizing equity, inclusion, and justice criteria across four key decision making stages: designing institutional arrangements, participatory practices, policy integration, and strategic implementation processes.

TL;DR: This paper proposes a method for solving the problem of fitting regression models to historical fleet data with mixed effects that is scalable to extremely large datasets, even ones that do not fit in to the memory of a single computer system.

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that transnational actors are critical for financing programs and generating awareness around climate change adaptation in cities, but it is unclear whether transnational support actually enables m...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors systematically review literature and case studies across the global North and South to assess the barriers and enablers to transformative climate adaptation, focusing on examples and evidence from a wide range of cities.