5 papers
Web2Grasp: Learning Functional Grasps from Web Images of Hand-Object Interactions
Hongyi Chen, Yunchao Yao, Yufei Ye +8
Functional grasping is essential for enabling dexterous multi-finger robot hands to manipulate objects effectively. Prior work largely focuses on power grasps, which only involve h…
Visuo-Acoustic Hand Pose and Contact Estimation
Yuemin Mao, Uksang Yoo, Yunchao Yao +5
Accurately estimating hand pose and hand-object contact events is essential for robot data-collection, immersive virtual environments, and biomechanical analysis, yet remains chall…
Soft Robotic Dynamic In-Hand Pen Spinning
Yunchao Yao, Uksang Yoo, Jean Oh +2
Dynamic in-hand manipulation remains a challenging task for soft robotic systems that have demonstrated advantages in safe compliant interactions but struggle with high-speed dynam…
Automating Robot Failure Recovery Using Vision-Language Models With Optimized Prompts
Hongyi Chen, Yunchao Yao, Ruixuan Liu +2
Current robot autonomy struggles to operate beyond the assumed Operational Design Domain (ODD), the specific set of conditions and environments in which the system is designed to f…
DeformGS: Scene Flow in Highly Deformable Scenes for Deformable Object Manipulation
Bardienus P. Duisterhof, Zhao Mandi, Yunchao Yao +8
Teaching robots to fold, drape, or reposition deformable objects such as cloth will unlock a variety of automation applications. While remarkable progress has been made for rigid o…