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SCANS: A Soft Gripper with Curvature and Spectroscopy Sensors for In-Hand Material Differentiation
Nathaniel Hanson, Austin Allison, Charles DiMarzio +2
We introduce the soft curvature and spectroscopy (SCANS) system: a versatile, electronics-free, fluidically actuated soft manipulator capable of assessing the spectral properties o…
Field Calibration of Hyperspectral Cameras for Terrain Inference
Nathaniel Hanson, Benjamin Pyatski, Samuel Hibbard +5
Intra-class terrain differences such as water content directly influence a vehicle's ability to traverse terrain, yet RGB vision systems may fail to distinguish these properties. E…
Spectral Signature Mapping from RGB Imagery for Terrain-Aware Navigation
Sarvesh Prajapati, Ananya Trivedi, Nathaniel Hanson +2
Successful navigation in outdoor environments requires accurate prediction of the physical interactions between the robot and the terrain. Many prior methods rely on geometric or s…
VOTE: Vision-Language-Action Optimization with Trajectory Ensemble Voting
Juyi Lin, Amir Taherin, Arash Akbari +11
Recent large-scale Vision Language Action (VLA) models have shown superior performance in robotic manipulation tasks guided by natural language. However, current VLA models suffer…
Re4MPC: Reactive Nonlinear MPC for Multi-model Motion Planning via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Neşet Ünver Akmandor, Sarvesh Prajapati, Mark Zolotas +1
Traditional motion planning methods for robots with many degrees-of-freedom, such as mobile manipulators, are often computationally prohibitive for real-world settings. In this pap…
ViTa-Zero: Zero-shot Visuotactile Object 6D Pose Estimation
Hongyu Li, James Akl, Srinath Sridhar +2
Object 6D pose estimation is a critical challenge in robotics, particularly for manipulation tasks. While prior research combining visual and tactile (visuotactile) information has…