7 research outputs found
Towards Connecting Control to Perception: High-Performance Whole-Body Collision Avoidance Using Control-Compatible Obstacles
One of the most important aspects of autonomous systems is safety. This
includes ensuring safe human-robot and safe robot-environment interaction when
autonomously performing complex tasks or in collaborative scenarios. Although
several methods have been introduced to tackle this, most are unsuitable for
real-time applications and require carefully hand-crafted obstacle
descriptions. In this work, we propose a method combining high-frequency and
real-time self and environment collision avoidance of a robotic manipulator
with low-frequency, multimodal, and high-resolution environmental perceptions
accumulated in a digital twin system. Our method is based on geometric
primitives, so-called primitive skeletons. These, in turn, are
information-compressed and real-time compatible digital representations of the
robot's body and environment, automatically generated from ultra-realistic
virtual replicas of the real world provided by the digital twin. Our approach
is a key enabler for closing the loop between environment perception and robot
control by providing the millisecond real-time control stage with a current and
accurate world description, empowering it to react to environmental changes. We
evaluate our whole-body collision avoidance on a 9-DOFs robot system through
five experiments, demonstrating the functionality and efficiency of our
framework.Comment: Accepted for publication at 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023
Glutathione Restricts Serine Metabolism to Preserve Regulatory T Cell Function
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) maintain immune homeostasis and prevent autoimmunity. Serine stimulates glutathione (GSH) synthesis and feeds into the one-carbon metabolic network (1CMet) essential for effector T cell (Teff) responses. However, serine’s functions, linkage to GSH, and role in stress responses in Tregs are unknown. Here, we show, using mice with Treg-specific ablation of the catalytic subunit of glutamate cysteine ligase ( Gclc), that GSH loss in Tregs alters serine import and synthesis and that the integrity of this feedback loop is critical for Treg suppressive capacity. Although Gclc ablation does not impair Treg differentiation, mutant mice exhibit severe autoimmunity and enhanced anti-tumor responses. Gclc-deficient Tregs show increased serine metabolism, mTOR activation, and proliferation but downregulated FoxP3. Limitation of cellular serine in vitro and in vivo restores FoxP3 expression and suppressive capacity of Gclc-deficient Tregs. Our work reveals an unexpected role for GSH in restricting serine availability to preserve Treg functionality