Robert Platt

Perception, planning, and control for robotic manipulation

PhD in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Robert Platt is an associate professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston. He is also affiliated with the College of Engineering.

Platt's work primarily focuses on perception, planning, and control for robotic manipulation, with the goal of enabling robots to perform manipulation tasks in the context of real-world perceptual uncertainties. This area of study is essential to performing robotic assembly or repair tasks, or simply grasping and lifting objects in everyday environments. Platt expects robust robotic manipulation will have a range of future applications in the home, health care, manufacturing, hazardous environments, and the military.

Before joining Northeastern, Platt was a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a robotics engineer at NASA.

Published: January 1st, 2024
[TEST-FEB13]-Symmetric Models for Visual Force Policy Learning

Citation: Colin Kohler, Anuj Shrivatsav Srikanth, Eshan Arora, Robert Platt . (2024). Symmetric Models for Visual Force Policy Learning ICRA, 3101-3107. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610728
Published: January 1st, 2024
[TEST-FEB13]-Fourier Transporter: Bi-Equivariant Robotic Manipulation in 3D

Citation: Haojie Huang, Owen Howell, Dian Wang , Xupeng Zhu, Robert Platt , Robin Walters . (2024). Fourier Transporter: Bi-Equivariant Robotic Manipulation in 3D ICLR. https://openreview.net/forum?id=UulwvAU1W0
Published: July 4th, 2023
Edge Grasp Network: A Graph-Based SE(3)-invariant Approach to Grasp Detection

Citation: Haojie Huang, Dian Wang , Xupeng Zhu, Robin Walters, Robert Platt. (2023). Edge Grasp Network: A Graph-Based SE(3)-invariant Approach to Grasp Detection ICRA, 3882-3888. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160728