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most citedSynthesizing Diverse and Physically Stable Grasps with Arbitrary Hand Structures using Differentiable Force Closure Estimator

91 citations

18 papers

cs.CV2026

IntentQA: Intent Question Answering in Videos by Cognitive Context Reasoning

Jiapeng Li, Ping Wei, Wenjuan Han +2

Video understanding requires intelligent agents to transcend mere recognition of visual facts and comprehend the underlying intents behind human actions (often termed the "dark mat…

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

ReSPIRe: Informative and Reusable Belief Tree Search for Robot Probabilistic Search and Tracking in Unknown Environments

Kangjie Zhou, Zhaoyang Li, Han Gao +4

Target search and tracking (SAT) is a fundamental problem for various robotic applications such as search and rescue and environmental exploration. This paper proposes an informati…

cs.MA2025★ 12 cited

Digital Twin-based Smart Manufacturing: Dynamic Line Reconfiguration for Disturbance Handling

Bo Fu, Mingjie Bi, Shota Umeda +6

The increasing complexity of modern manufacturing, coupled with demand fluctuation, supply chain uncertainties, and product customization, underscores the need for manufacturing sy…

cs.CV2025★ 5 cited

Beyond Overfitting: Doubly Adaptive Dropout for Generalizable AU Detection

Yong Li, Yi Ren, Xuesong Niu +3

Facial Action Units (AUs) are essential for conveying psychological states and emotional expressions. While automatic AU detection systems leveraging deep learning have progressed,…

cs.RO2024★ 64 cited

Embedding high-resolution touch across robotic hands enables adaptive human-like grasping

Zihang Zhao, Wanlin Li, Yuyang Li +9

Developing robotic hands that adapt to real-world dynamics remains a fundamental challenge in robotics and machine intelligence. Despite significant advances in replicating human h…

cs.RO2024★ 14 cited

M2Diffuser: Diffusion-based Trajectory Optimization for Mobile Manipulation in 3D Scenes

Sixu Yan, Zeyu Zhang, Muzhi Han +7

Recent advances in diffusion models have opened new avenues for research into embodied AI agents and robotics. Despite significant achievements in complex robotic locomotion and sk…

cs.RO2024★ 17 cited

MiniTac: An Ultra-Compact 8 mm Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for Enhanced Palpation in Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery

Wanlin Li, Zihang Zhao, Leiyao Cui +4

Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RAMIS) provides substantial benefits over traditional open and laparoscopic methods. However, a significant limitation of RAMIS is the su…

cs.RO2024

M3Bench: Benchmarking Whole-body Motion Generation for Mobile Manipulation in 3D Scenes

Zeyu Zhang, Sixu Yan, Muzhi Han +4

We propose M3Bench, a new benchmark for whole-body motion generation in mobile manipulation tasks. Given a 3D scene context, M3Bench requires an embodied agent to reason about its…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

MEDVOC: Vocabulary Adaptation for Fine-tuning Pre-trained Language Models on Medical Text Summarization

Gunjan Balde, Soumyadeep Roy, Mainack Mondal +1

This work presents a dynamic vocabulary adaptation strategy, MEDVOC, for fine-tuning pre-trained language models (PLMs) like BertSumAbs, BART, and PEGASUS for improved medical text…

cs.RO2024★ 20 cited

Tac-Man: Tactile-Informed Prior-Free Manipulation of Articulated Objects

Zihang Zhao, Yuyang Li, Wanlin Li +4

Integrating robots into human-centric environments such as homes, necessitates advanced manipulation skills as robotic devices will need to engage with articulated objects like doo…

cs.GR2023★ 5 cited

Simulating Parametric Thin Shells by Bicubic Hermite Elements

Xingyu Ni, Xuwen Chen, Cheng Yu +2

In this study, we present the bicubic Hermite element method (BHEM), a new computational framework devised for the elastodynamic simulation of parametric thin-shell structures. The…

cs.RO2023★ 32 cited

Grasp Multiple Objects with One Hand

Yuyang Li, Bo Liu, Yiran Geng +5

The intricate kinematics of the human hand enable simultaneous grasping and manipulation of multiple objects, essential for tasks such as object transfer and in-hand manipulation.…

cs.RO2022★ 12 cited

Object Gathering with a Tethered Robot Duo

Yao Su, Yuhong Jiang, Yixin Zhu +1

We devise a cooperative planning framework to generate optimal trajectories for a tethered robot duo, who is tasked to gather scattered objects spread in a large area using a flexi…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

Robust Transfer Learning with Pretrained Language Models through Adapters

Wenjuan Han, Bo Pang, Yingnian Wu

Transfer learning with large pretrained transformer-based language models like BERT has become a dominating approach for most NLP tasks. Simply fine-tuning those large language mod…

cs.RO2021★ 10 cited

Terrain-perception-free Quadrupedal Spinning Locomotion on Versatile Terrains: Modeling, Analysis, and Experimental Validation

Hongwu Zhu, Dong Wang, Nathan Boyd +6

Dynamic quadrupedal locomotion over rough terrains reveals remarkable progress over the last few decades. Small-scale quadruped robots are adequately flexible and adaptable to trav…

cs.CL2021★ 14 cited

Inter-GPS: Interpretable Geometry Problem Solving with Formal Language and Symbolic Reasoning

Pan Lu, Ran Gong, Shibiao Jiang +4

Geometry problem solving has attracted much attention in the NLP community recently. The task is challenging as it requires abstract problem understanding and symbolic reasoning wi…

cs.RO2021★ 91 cited

Synthesizing Diverse and Physically Stable Grasps with Arbitrary Hand Structures using Differentiable Force Closure Estimator

Tengyu Liu, Zeyu Liu, Ziyuan Jiao +2

Existing grasp synthesis methods are either analytical or data-driven. The former one is oftentimes limited to specific application scope. The latter one depends heavily on demonst…

cs.RO2021★ 8 cited

Show Me What You Can Do: Capability Calibration on Reachable Workspace for Human-Robot Collaboration

Xiaofeng Gao, Luyao Yuan, Tianmin Shu +2

Aligning humans' assessment of what a robot can do with its true capability is crucial for establishing a common ground between human and robot partners when they collaborate on a…