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20192025
most citedDexTransfer: Real World Multi-fingered Dexterous Grasping with Minimal Human Demonstrations

10 citations · 53 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.RO2025★ 3 cited

Isaac Lab: A GPU-Accelerated Simulation Framework for Multi-Modal Robot Learning

NVIDIA, :, Mayank Mittal +104

We present Isaac Lab, the natural successor to Isaac Gym, which extends the paradigm of GPU-native robotics simulation into the era of large-scale multi-modal learning. Isaac Lab c…

cs.RO2025

First Plan Then Evaluate: Multi-Target Planning with Post-Planning Success Evaluation Improves Learning-Based Grasping Pipelines

Martin Matak, Mohanraj Devendran Shanthi, Karl Van Wyk +1

Autonomous multi-finger grasping is a fundamental capability in robotic manipulation. Optimization-based approaches show strong performance, but tend to be sensitive to initializat…

cs.RO2024

23 DoF Grasping Policies from a Raw Point Cloud

Martin Matak, Karl Van Wyk, Tucker Hermans

Coordinating the motion of robots with high degrees of freedom (DoF) to grasp objects gives rise to many challenges. In this paper, we propose a novel imitation learning approach t…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

DextrAH-G: Pixels-to-Action Dexterous Arm-Hand Grasping with Geometric Fabrics

Tyler Ga Wei Lum, Martin Matak, Viktor Makoviychuk +5

A pivotal challenge in robotics is achieving fast, safe, and robust dexterous grasping across a diverse range of objects, an important goal within industrial applications. However,…

cs.RO2023★ 2 cited

cuRobo: Parallelized Collision-Free Minimum-Jerk Robot Motion Generation

Balakumar Sundaralingam, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, Adam Fishman +9

This paper explores the problem of collision-free motion generation for manipulators by formulating it as a global motion optimization problem. We develop a parallel optimization t…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

AnyTeleop: A General Vision-Based Dexterous Robot Arm-Hand Teleoperation System

Yuzhe Qin, Wei Yang, Binghao Huang +5

Vision-based teleoperation offers the possibility to endow robots with human-level intelligence to physically interact with the environment, while only requiring low-cost camera se…

cs.RO2022★ 5 cited

Learning Robust Real-World Dexterous Grasping Policies via Implicit Shape Augmentation

Zoey Qiuyu Chen, Karl Van Wyk, Yu-Wei Chao +4

Dexterous robotic hands have the capability to interact with a wide variety of household objects to perform tasks like grasping. However, learning robust real world grasping polici…

cs.RO2022★ 5 cited

DeXtreme: Transfer of Agile In-hand Manipulation from Simulation to Reality

Ankur Handa, Arthur Allshire, Viktor Makoviychuk +11

Recent work has demonstrated the ability of deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms to learn complex robotic behaviours in simulation, including in the domain of multi-fingered…

cs.CV2022★ 10 cited

DexTransfer: Real World Multi-fingered Dexterous Grasping with Minimal Human Demonstrations

Zoey Qiuyu Chen, Karl Van Wyk, Yu-Wei Chao +4

Teaching a multi-fingered dexterous robot to grasp objects in the real world has been a challenging problem due to its high dimensional state and action space. We propose a robot-l…

cs.RO2021

Imitation Learning via Simultaneous Optimization of Policies and Auxiliary Trajectories

Mandy Xie, Anqi Li, Karl Van Wyk +3

Imitation learning (IL) is a frequently used approach for data-efficient policy learning. Many IL methods, such as Dataset Aggregation (DAgger), combat challenges like distribution…

cs.CV2021★ 7 cited

DexYCB: A Benchmark for Capturing Hand Grasping of Objects

Yu-Wei Chao, Wei Yang, Yu Xiang +9

We introduce DexYCB, a new dataset for capturing hand grasping of objects. We first compare DexYCB with a related one through cross-dataset evaluation. We then present a thorough b…

cs.RO2021★ 3 cited

RMP2: A Structured Composable Policy Class for Robot Learning

Anqi Li, Ching-An Cheng, M. Asif Rana +4

We consider the problem of learning motion policies for acceleration-based robotics systems with a structured policy class specified by RMPflow. RMPflow is a multi-task control fra…

cs.RO2020

Generalized Nonlinear and Finsler Geometry for Robotics

Nathan D. Ratliff, Karl Van Wyk, Mandy Xie +2

Robotics research has found numerous important applications of Riemannian geometry. Despite that, the concept remain challenging to many roboticists because the background material…

cs.RO2020

Optimization Fabrics

Nathan D. Ratliff, Karl Van Wyk, Mandy Xie +2

This paper presents a theory of optimization fabrics, second-order differential equations that encode nominal behaviors on a space and can be used to define the behavior of a smoot…

cs.RO2020

Interpreting and Predicting Tactile Signals via a Physics-Based and Data-Driven Framework

Yashraj S. Narang, Karl Van Wyk, Arsalan Mousavian +1

High-density afferents in the human hand have long been regarded as essential for human grasping and manipulation abilities. In contrast, robotic tactile sensors are typically used…

cs.RO2020★ 5 cited

In-Hand Object Pose Tracking via Contact Feedback and GPU-Accelerated Robotic Simulation

Jacky Liang, Ankur Handa, Karl Van Wyk +3

Tracking the pose of an object while it is being held and manipulated by a robot hand is difficult for vision-based methods due to significant occlusions. Prior works have explored…

cs.CV2019★ 10 cited

DexPilot: Vision Based Teleoperation of Dexterous Robotic Hand-Arm System

Ankur Handa, Karl Van Wyk, Wei Yang +6

Teleoperation offers the possibility of imparting robotic systems with sophisticated reasoning skills, intuition, and creativity to perform tasks. However, current teleoperation so…

cs.RO2019★ 1 cited

Efficiently Improving and Quantifying Robot Accuracy In Situ

Karl Van Wyk, Joe Falco, Geraldine Cheok

The advancement of simulation-assisted robot programming, automation of high-tolerance assembly operations, and improvement of real-world performance engender a need for positional…