4 papers
Enabling Robust Cloth Manipulation via Inference-Time Simulator-in-the-Loop Refinement
Xin Liu, Yulin Li, Ziming Li +7
Simulator-in-the-loop optimization offers a promising inference-time mechanism for robot manipulation. It uses a physical simulator as a backend rollout engine to evaluate candidat…
Fast and Reliable Gradients for Deformables Across Frictional Contact Regimes
Ziqiu Zeng, Gang Yang, Zhenhao Huang +5
Differentiable simulation establishes the mathematical foundation for solving challenging inverse problems in computer graphics and robotics, such as physical system identification…
One-Step Model Predictive Path Integral for Manipulator Motion Planning Using Configuration Space Distance Fields
Yulin Li, Tetsuro Miyazaki, Kenji Kawashima
Motion planning for robotic manipulators is a fundamental problem in robotics. Classical optimization-based methods typically rely on the gradients of signed distance fields (SDFs)…
S-RRT*-based Obstacle Avoidance Autonomous Motion Planner for Continuum-rigid Manipulator
Yulin Li, Tetsuro Miyazaki, Yoshiki Yamamoto +1
Continuum robots are compact and flexible, making them suitable for use in the industries and in medical surgeries. Rapidly-exploring random trees (RRT) are a highly efficient path…