activity
20202023
most citedDiffCloth: Differentiable Cloth Simulation with Dry Frictional Contact

93 citations · 272 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators
Showing 2021Show all

6 papers · 1 filter

cs.CV2021★ 10 cited

Dynamic Visual Reasoning by Learning Differentiable Physics Models from Video and Language

Mingyu Ding, Zhenfang Chen, Tao Du +3

In this work, we propose a unified framework, called Visual Reasoning with Differ-entiable Physics (VRDP), that can jointly learn visual concepts and infer physics models of object…

cs.RO2021★ 19 cited

Sim2Real for Soft Robotic Fish via Differentiable Simulation

John Z. Zhang, Yu Zhang, Pingchuan Ma +5

Accurate simulation of soft mechanisms under dynamic actuation is critical for the design of soft robots. We address this gap with our differentiable simulation tool by learning th…

cs.GR2021★ 93 cited

DiffCloth: Differentiable Cloth Simulation with Dry Frictional Contact

Yifei Li, Tao Du, Kui Wu +2

Cloth simulation has wide applications in computer animation, garment design, and robot-assisted dressing. This work presents a differentiable cloth simulator whose additional grad…

cs.LG2021★ 58 cited

DiffAqua: A Differentiable Computational Design Pipeline for Soft Underwater Swimmers with Shape Interpolation

Pingchuan Ma, Tao Du, John Z. Zhang +4

The computational design of soft underwater swimmers is challenging because of the high degrees of freedom in soft-body modeling. In this paper, we present a differentiable pipelin…

cs.LG2021★ 17 cited

PlasticineLab: A Soft-Body Manipulation Benchmark with Differentiable Physics

Zhiao Huang, Yuanming Hu, Tao Du +4

Simulated virtual environments serve as one of the main driving forces behind developing and evaluating skill learning algorithms. However, existing environments typically only sim…

cs.LG2021

DiffPD: Differentiable Projective Dynamics

Tao Du, Kui Wu, Pingchuan Ma +4

We present a novel, fast differentiable simulator for soft-body learning and control applications. Existing differentiable soft-body simulators can be classified into two categorie…