Max Polzin

PhD Student at EPFL's CREATE-Lab - Researching novel mobile robots with applications in extreme environments like (agricultural) slopes, forests or glaciers.

[Max Polzin @maxpolzin12019]

Original publication: https://t.co/w0rSUuwC3P
Press release: https://t.co/kNzDH5D87r
Summary video: https://t.co/gFsJ3h4xCv

[Max Polzin @maxpolzin12019]

Thank you, @mashable. That's a terrific article/video about our robot.

Inspired by nature, this robot morphs to overcome almost any obstacle https://t.co/KGy4xPw9wh

[Science Robotics @SciRobotics]

In a new Science #Robotics Focus article, @nana_obayashi and colleagues propose a research model that would blend long-term “slow science” and short-term “fast science” to promote progress in soft robotics. https://t.co/5egVfw8nqK

[Max Polzin @maxpolzin12019]

We are glad to share our work on the GOAT robot in @SciRobotics. By harnessing "environmental computation," GOAT adapts its shape to let the terrain help guide its navigation—an approach that allows it to work with nature rather than against it. #Robot #Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg

[Science Robotics @SciRobotics]

Scientists have designed a flexible, #bioinspired #robot that can switch between a flat rover form and a sphere to travel through rocky, mountainous, and urban terrains autonomously. @EPFL_CREATE @maxpolzin12019

Learn more in Science #Robotics: https://t.co/8849X1UiHx

[Max Polzin @maxpolzin12019]

@SwissPolar @EPFL_CREATE @SciRobotics Thanks a lot, @SwissPolar. Without your support this project would not have been possible. Looking forward to see more technological innovation targeted at the #cryosphere.

[Swiss Polar Institute @swisspolar.bsky.social @SwissPolar]

Congratulations to the team @EPFL_CREATE on their shape-shifting #robot and the publication in @SciRobotics!
The project received support from @SwissPolar Technogrants.
👉https://t.co/K9BLtP9lzz
👉https://t.co/hlZKJRW3o5

[Science Robotics @SciRobotics]

Scientists have designed a flexible, #bioinspired #robot that can switch between a flat rover form and a sphere to travel through rocky, mountainous, and urban terrains autonomously. @EPFL_CREATE @maxpolzin12019

Learn more in Science #Robotics: https://t.co/8849X1UiHx

[Swiss Polar Institute @swisspolar.bsky.social @SwissPolar]

📔#Fieldnote #PolarAccessFund
"Moulins can form complex geometries and are an important element for predicting the evolution of our glaciers."
@maxpolzin12019 @EPFL_CREATE tests robotic systems for safer #data collection & modelling of #glaciers.
👉https://t.co/B6SjmLSrGF

[CREATE Lab @EPFL_CREATE]

The Apple Vision Pro enables excellent head/hand tracking!

Here is a #ROS2 wrapper to display tf2 transforms: https://t.co/NHWx9buEgV

All thanks to the awesome streamer app by @younghyo_park, which works seamlessly out the box😁

[Max Polzin @maxpolzin12019]

We just returned from another field trip to work with #Robots from @EDG_UCB, @UCBerkeley and @EPFL_CREATE, @EPFLEngineering, @EPFL_en in extreme glacial environments.

Grateful for the support from @SwissPolar , #PolarAccessFund and @NatGeoExplorers, @InsideNatGeo, @NatGeo.

[Max Polzin @maxpolzin12019]

Our article "Into the Ice: Exploration and Data-Capturing in Glacial Moulins by a Tethered Robot" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Field Robotics.

This was made possible with support of @SwissPolar.

Good news: just in time before this year's field campaign.

[ROSbloX @xploros]

Here is a minimal example to use #Nav2 with GNSS/IMU (only) localization running in (Ignition) Gazebo.

https://t.co/ZnUP4AVEby

#ros #ros2
@OpenRoboticsOrg @rosorg @GazeboSim

[ROSbloX @xploros]

Want to use efficient shared memory transport between #docker containers and #ROS 2 nodes running on the same machine?

Here is our template repository how to build #ROS2 images and run them with --net=host and correct uid/pid: https://t.co/auu40f6xbL

@OpenRoboticsOrg @rosorg

[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

Here is your #ROS news for this week:
🇮🇳 ROSCon India announced!
🇮🇳 ROSCon talks published
🇮🇳 Long range comms tutorial
🇮🇳 An amazing pick-and-place demo
🇮🇳 Name the @GazeboSim I release
🇮🇳 NYT on construction robots
🇮🇳 Atlantic on ♻️ robots
🇮🇳 More!

https://t.co/SLTObgcEG0

[Max Polzin @maxpolzin12019]

@Fmrico I do.

Currently, we are using Nav2 on our Robocup@Home robot in an indoor environment.

However, for my research, I want to deploy it in more complex outdoor scenarios.

Cool, that you are working on this. I'd be keen to hear more about your plans.

[Max Polzin @maxpolzin12019]

@Fmrico Hi Francisco and thanks.

Great pipeline, I'll try using it with a digital elevation model from Lausanne.

How are you currently assigning cost to elevation and slope?

Is there a possibility to assign asymmetric cost, e.g., going down a slope is simpler than up.

[ROSbloX @xploros]

Documentation with instructions to replicate the setup to enable "Long-range #ROS2 data transmission using SiK Telemetry Radios" is on #ROS Discourse, https://t.co/OMMiIBSOyl

@PX4Autopilot @OpenRoboticsOrg @rosorg

[ROSbloX @xploros]

How do you communicate with your #ROS 2 powered field #Robots in extreme outdoor environments with no cellular coverage?

Checkout our latest video on "Long-range ROS 2 data transmission via SiK Telemetry Radios" https://t.co/S81FLAH2Eq

@rosorg @OpenRoboticsOrg

[ROSbloX @xploros]

We created a #ROS driver to interface via I2C with the popular AS5048B High Resolution Rotary Encoder via #ROS 2 on your @Raspberry_Pi.

@OpenRoboticsOrg #robotics #robot

https://t.co/KZWdpu5pmu