kwesi-r.bsky.social
@kwesi-r.bsky.social
(As usual, I hope this makes it a bit easier to use @toyota-tri.bsky.social 's Drake toolbox.)

#Robotics #Simulation #OpenSourceSoftware
September 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Check out the release notes here:

open.substack.com/pub/bromrele...

And, as usual, you can quickly install the newest version of Brom with:

pip install brom-drake
Brom Version 0.4.3-1: Enter the Puppeteer
A replacement of one of Brom's original features; this time maybe we've done it the right way?
open.substack.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Dr. Suh wrote a lot of great papers during his PhD, but this was one of my favorites:

proceedings.mlr.press/v229/suh23a/...
proceedings.mlr.press
August 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
We added a single flag so that the `drakeify_my_urdf` function creates "better" collision geometries for you!

Read more about this in the release notes:

open.substack.com/pub/bromrele...
Brom Version 0.4.1 Release Notes
Collisions are... complicated.
open.substack.com
June 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Oof. This was actually BabyTron. 😭 They both have a similar Detroit accent, tho, so I understand why there is confusion.
April 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
(at least during the next few years).

Let's hope that the ramifications of this decision don't ripple much longer than the next election.

AND let's hope that "being the foremost country for scientific research" goes back to being a non-controversial/nonpartisan priority for the government. [2/2]
April 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Reposted
They had classes in automata theory, AI, info theory, algorithms, optimization, control theory, and even social decision making. It had a perfect Cyber-Physical Systems curriculum before CPS was a thing (well cybernetics was a thing): drive.google.com/file/d/12SEj...
cice-bulletins-1980-84.pdf
drive.google.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM
From what I've heard from former Uber employees, they are capable of understanding commute patterns and have unintentionally (?) influenced them in the past. 😔 I hope they're not doing this in Ann Arbor.
March 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
And then finally there are Brom's Production objects.

I will return to these in a later post, but if you want to start playing around with any of these things, then install Brom by running:

pip install brom-drake

Also, you can view the code here:

github.com/kwesiRutledg...
GitHub - kwesiRutledge/brom_drake-py: Brom is a helper library for the Drake robotics simulation and verification library.
Brom is a helper library for the Drake robotics simulation and verification library. - kwesiRutledge/brom_drake-py
github.com
January 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM