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SixthSense: Task-Agnostic Proprioception-Only Whole-Body Wrench Estimation for Humanoids
Xingzhou Chen, Xiayan Xu, Yan Ning +8
Humanoid robots are entering our physical world at scale, yet as oversized toys--good at singing and dancing, but short on force-interaction capabilities for practical tasks. Bridg…
X2-N: A Transformable Wheel-legged Humanoid Robot with Dual-mode Locomotion and Manipulation
Yan Ning, Xingzhou Chen, Delong Li +7
Wheel-legged robots combine the efficiency of wheeled locomotion with the versatility of legged systems, enabling rapid traversal over both continuous and discrete terrains. Howeve…
The NING Humanoid: The Concurrent Design and Development of a Dynamic and Agile Platform
Yan Ning, Song Liu, Taiwen Yang +2
The recent surge of interest in agile humanoid robots achieving dynamic tasks like jumping and flipping necessitates the concurrent design of a robot platform that combines excepti…
Coverage Control for a Multi-robot Team with Heterogeneous Capabilities using Block Coordinate Descent (BCD) Method
Yung Yu Andy Yiu, Ying Hing Yim, Yan Ning +2
In this paper, we propose a coverage control system for a multi-robot team with heterogeneous capabilities to patrol or monitor a bounded environment. The capability could be defin…