New paper on robotic sand grading, to appear at ICRA 2025! 🏗️✨

Louis Hanut’s latest paper (Hanut et al., 2025) brings adaptive and iterative learning to robotic sand grading. Just like humans, the robot adjusts its actions in real time to shape sand with precision and efficiency. Key takeaways:

✅ Smarter tool control reduces force issues
✅ Adaptive grading angles prevent errors while shaping
✅ Dynamic speed adjustments balance accuracy & speed

This moves us closer to robots mastering amorphous materials for the RoBétArmé Project, construction robotics, and more. Congrats Louis!

References

Robotic Framework for Iterative and Adaptive Profile Grading of Sand.

Louis Hanut, Yurui Du, Renaud Detry, and Herman Bruyninckx.

In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2025.

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@inproceedings{hanut2025a,
  author = {Hanut, Louis and Du, Yurui and Detry, Renaud and Bruyninckx, Herman},
  title = {Robotic Framework for Iterative and Adaptive Profile Grading of Sand},
  year = {2025},
  booktitle = {{IEEE} International Conference on Robotics and Automation},
}