5 papers
ROG-Grasp: Root-Oriented Geometry for Robotic Grasping and Placement
Zijian An, Augustus Sroka, Ran Yang +8
Orientation-aware manipulation is essential in post-harvest agricultural processing, where produce must be grasped and placed in consistent configurations. This paper presents ROG-…
VILAS: A VLA-Integrated Low-cost Architecture with Soft Grasping for Robotic Manipulation
Zijian An, Hadi Khezam, Bill Cai +5
We present VILAS, a fully low-cost, modular robotic manipulation platform designed to support end-to-end vision-language-action (VLA) policy learning and deployment on accessible h…
Vision Language Models Cannot Plan, but Can They Formalize?
Muyu He, Yuxi Zheng, Yuchen Liu +7
The advancement of vision language models (VLMs) has empowered embodied agents to accomplish simple multimodal planning tasks, but not long-horizon ones requiring long sequences of…
Domain-Transferred Synthetic Data Generation for Improving Monocular Depth Estimation
Seungyeop Lee, Knut Peterson, Solmaz Arezoomandan +4
A major obstacle to the development of effective monocular depth estimation algorithms is the difficulty in obtaining high-quality depth data that corresponds to collected RGB imag…
Energy-Aware Routing Algorithm for Mobile Ground-to-Air Charging
Bill Cai, Fei Lu, Lifeng Zhou
We investigate the problem of energy-constrained planning for a cooperative system of an Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) and an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). In scenarios where the…