12 papers
ForceBand: Learning Forceful Manipulation with sEMG
Botao He, Zhi Wang, Linna Kuang +8
Human demonstrations are a scalable data source for learning robot manipulation policies. However, common sources of human demonstration data, such as motion-capture trajectories a…
HumanEgo: Zero-Shot Robot Learning from Minutes of Human Egocentric Videos
Zhi Wang, Botao He, Kelin Yu +4
Human egocentric video captures rich manipulation demonstrations without any robot hardware, yet transferring these skills to robots remains challenging due to the embodiment gap b…
FEEL (Force-Enhanced Egocentric Learning): A Dataset for Physical Action Understanding
Eadom Dessalene, Botao He, Michael Maynord +5
We introduce FEEL (Force-Enhanced Egocentric Learning), the first large-scale dataset pairing force measurements gathered from custom piezoresistive gloves with egocentric video. O…
Adversarial Game-Theoretic Algorithm for Dexterous Grasp Synthesis
Yu Chen, Botao He, Yuemin Mao +7
For many complex tasks, multi-finger robot hands are poised to revolutionize how we interact with the world, but reliably grasping objects remains a significant challenge. We focus…
NavMoE: Hybrid Model- and Learning-based Traversability Estimation for Local Navigation via Mixture of Experts
Botao He, Amir Hossein Shahidzadeh, Yu Chen +8
This paper explores traversability estimation for robot navigation. A key bottleneck in traversability estimation lies in efficiently achieving reliable and robust predictions whil…
Search-Based Path Planning in Interactive Environments among Movable Obstacles
Zhongqiang Ren, Bunyod Suvonov, Guofei Chen +4
This paper investigates Path planning Among Movable Obstacles (PAMO), which seeks a minimum cost collision-free path among static obstacles from start to goal while allowing the ro…
Air-FAR: Fast and Adaptable Routing for Aerial Navigation in Large-scale Complex Unknown Environments
Botao He, Guofei Chen, Cornelia Fermuller +2
This paper presents a novel method for real-time 3D navigation in large-scale, complex environments using a hierarchical 3D visibility graph (V-graph). The proposed algorithm addre…
ViewActive: Active viewpoint optimization from a single image
Jiayi Wu, Xiaomin Lin, Botao He +2
When observing objects, humans benefit from their spatial visualization and mental rotation ability to envision potential optimal viewpoints based on the current observation. This…
Active Human Pose Estimation via an Autonomous UAV Agent
Jingxi Chen, Botao He, Chahat Deep Singh +2
One of the core activities of an active observer involves moving to secure a "better" view of the scene, where the definition of "better" is task-dependent. This paper focuses on t…
Event3DGS: Event-Based 3D Gaussian Splatting for High-Speed Robot Egomotion
Tianyi Xiong, Jiayi Wu, Botao He +4
By combining differentiable rendering with explicit point-based scene representations, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated breakthrough 3D reconstruction capabilities. Ho…
Microsaccade-inspired Event Camera for Robotics
Botao He, Ze Wang, Yuan Zhou +11
Neuromorphic vision sensors or event cameras have made the visual perception of extremely low reaction time possible, opening new avenues for high-dynamic robotics applications. Th…
Interactive-FAR:Interactive, Fast and Adaptable Routing for Navigation Among Movable Obstacles in Complex Unknown Environments
Botao He, Guofei Chen, Wenshan Wang +3
This paper introduces a real-time algorithm for navigating complex unknown environments cluttered with movable obstacles. Our algorithm achieves fast, adaptable routing by actively…