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

91 citations · 103 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.RO2026

Scalable Trajectory Generation for Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation

Yida Niu, Xinhai Chang, Xin Liu +2

Robots deployed in unstructured environments must coordinate whole-body motion -- simultaneously moving a mobile base and arm -- to interact with the physical world. This coupled m…

cs.RO2026

Integrated Exploration and Sequential Manipulation on Scene Graph with LLM-based Situated Replanning

Heqing Yang, Ziyuan Jiao, Shu Wang +3

In partially known environments, robots must combine exploration to gather information with task planning for efficient execution. To address this challenge, we propose EPoG, an Ex…

cs.RO2025

Integration of Robot and Scene Kinematics for Sequential Mobile Manipulation Planning

Ziyuan Jiao, Yida Niu, Zeyu Zhang +5

We present a Sequential Mobile Manipulation Planning (SMMP) framework that can solve long-horizon multi-step mobile manipulation tasks with coordinated whole-body motion, even when…

cs.RO2025

In-situ Value-aligned Human-Robot Interactions with Physical Constraints

Hongtao Li, Ziyuan Jiao, Xiaofeng Liu +2

Equipped with Large Language Models (LLMs), human-centered robots are now capable of performing a wide range of tasks that were previously deemed challenging or unattainable. Howev…

cs.RO2025

SuperMag: Vision-based Tactile Data Guided High-resolution Tactile Shape Reconstruction for Magnetic Tactile Sensors

Peiyao Hou, Danning Sun, Meng Wang +5

Magnetic-based tactile sensors (MBTS) combine the advantages of compact design and high-frequency operation but suffer from limited spatial resolution due to their sparse taxel arr…

cs.RO2025

IKDiffuser: a Diffusion-based Generative Inverse Kinematics Solver for Kinematic Trees

Zeyu Zhang, Ziyuan Jiao

Solving Inverse Kinematics (IK) for arbitrary kinematic trees presents significant challenges due to their high-dimensionality, redundancy, and complex inter-branch constraints. Co…

cs.RO2024★ 2 cited

Flight Structure Optimization of Modular Reconfigurable UAVs

Yao Su, Ziyuan Jiao, Zeyu Zhang +4

This paper presents a Genetic Algorithm (GA) designed to reconfigure a large group of modular Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), each with different weights and inertia parameters, i…

cs.RO2024

Dynamic Planning for Sequential Whole-body Mobile Manipulation

Zhitian Li, Yida Niu, Yao Su +2

The dynamic Sequential Mobile Manipulation Planning (SMMP) framework is essential for the safe and robust operation of mobile manipulators in dynamic environments. Previous researc…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Closed-Loop Open-Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation with GPT-4V

Peiyuan Zhi, Zhiyuan Zhang, Yu Zhao +6

Autonomous robot navigation and manipulation in open environments require reasoning and replanning with closed-loop feedback. In this work, we present COME-robot, the first closed-…

cs.RO2024★ 8 cited

LLM3:Large Language Model-based Task and Motion Planning with Motion Failure Reasoning

Shu Wang, Muzhi Han, Ziyuan Jiao +4

Conventional Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) approaches rely on manually crafted interfaces connecting symbolic task planning with continuous motion generation. These domain-specif…

cs.HC2024

On the Emergence of Symmetrical Reality

Zhenliang Zhang, Zeyu Zhang, Ziyuan Jiao +4

Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized human cognitive abilities and facilitated the development of new AI entities capable of interacting with humans in both physical and…

cs.RO2023

Part-level Scene Reconstruction Affords Robot Interaction

Zeyu Zhang, Lexing Zhang, Zaijin Wang +5

Existing methods for reconstructing interactive scenes primarily focus on replacing reconstructed objects with CAD models retrieved from a limited database, resulting in significan…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

Sequential Manipulation Planning for Over-actuated Unmanned Aerial Manipulators

Yao Su, Jiarui Li, Ziyuan Jiao +5

We investigate the sequential manipulation planning problem for unmanned aerial manipulators (UAMs). Unlike prior work that primarily focuses on one-step manipulation tasks, sequen…

cs.RO2023

Rearrange Indoor Scenes for Human-Robot Co-Activity

Weiqi Wang, Zihang Zhao, Ziyuan Jiao +3

We present an optimization-based framework for rearranging indoor furniture to accommodate human-robot co-activities better. The rearrangement aims to afford sufficient accessible…

cs.RO2022

Sequential Manipulation Planning on Scene Graph

Ziyuan Jiao, Yida Niu, Zeyu Zhang +3

We devise a 3D scene graph representation, contact graph+ (cg+), for efficient sequential task planning. Augmented with predicate-like attributes, this contact graph-based represen…

cs.RO2022

Understanding Physical Effects for Effective Tool-use

Zeyu Zhang, Ziyuan Jiao, Weiqi Wang +3

We present a robot learning and planning framework that produces an effective tool-use strategy with the least joint efforts, capable of handling objects different from training. L…

cs.RO2021

Consolidating Kinematic Models to Promote Coordinated Mobile Manipulations

Ziyuan Jiao, Zeyu Zhang, Xin Jiang +4

We construct a Virtual Kinematic Chain (VKC) that readily consolidates the kinematics of the mobile base, the arm, and the object to be manipulated in mobile manipulations. Accordi…

cs.RO2021

Efficient Task Planning for Mobile Manipulation: a Virtual Kinematic Chain Perspective

Ziyuan Jiao, Zeyu Zhang, Weiqi Wang +4

We present a Virtual Kinematic Chain (VKC) perspective, a simple yet effective method, to improve task planning efficacy for mobile manipulation. By consolidating the kinematics of…

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

Reconstructing Interactive 3D Scenes by Panoptic Mapping and CAD Model Alignments

Muzhi Han, Zeyu Zhang, Ziyuan Jiao +4

In this paper, we rethink the problem of scene reconstruction from an embodied agent's perspective: While the classic view focuses on the reconstruction accuracy, our new perspecti…

cs.HC2020

Congestion-aware Evacuation Routing using Augmented Reality Devices

Zeyu Zhang, Hangxin Liu, Ziyuan Jiao +2

We present a congestion-aware routing solution for indoor evacuation, which produces real-time individual-customized evacuation routes among multiple destinations while keeping tra…