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10 papers

cs.RO2026

IMBench: A Benchmark for Intuitive Robotic Manipulation

Anurag Maurya, Sukhvansh Jain, Prajwal Avhad +9

Humans combine reasoning and motor control to solve complex manipulation tasks under diverse constraints. They build an understanding of the physical world that helps them convert…

cs.RO2026

PPGuide: Steering Diffusion Policies with Performance Predictive Guidance

Zixing Wang, Devesh K. Jha, Ahmed H. Qureshi +1

Diffusion policies have shown to be very efficient at learning complex, multi-modal behaviors for robotic manipulation. However, errors in generated action sequences can compound o…

cs.RO2026

Find the Fruit: Zero-Shot Sim2Real RL for Occlusion-Aware Plant Manipulation

Nitesh Subedi, Hsin-Jung Yang, Devesh K. Jha +1

Autonomous harvesting in the open presents a complex manipulation problem. In most scenarios, an autonomous system has to deal with significant occlusion and require interaction in…

cs.RO2025

Simultaneous Extrinsic Contact and In-Hand Pose Estimation via Distributed Tactile Sensing

Mark Van der Merwe, Kei Ota, Dmitry Berenson +2

Prehensile autonomous manipulation, such as peg insertion, tool use, or assembly, require precise in-hand understanding of the object pose and the extrinsic contacts made during in…

cs.RO2025

Robot Confirmation Generation and Action Planning Using Long-context Q-Former Integrated with Multimodal LLM

Chiori Hori, Yoshiki Masuyama, Siddarth Jain +4

Human-robot collaboration towards a shared goal requires robots to understand human action and interaction with the surrounding environment. This paper focuses on human-robot inter…

cs.RO2025

Analytic Conditions for Differentiable Collision Detection in Trajectory Optimization

Akshay Jaitly, Devesh K. Jha, Kei Ota +1

Optimization-based methods are widely used for computing fast, diverse solutions for complex tasks such as collision-free movement or planning in the presence of contacts. However,…