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Failing Forward: Adaptive Failure-Informed Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models
Meng Zheng, Samhita Marri, Anwesa Choudhuri +6
Vision-language-action (VLA) models provide a promising paradigm for scalable robotic manipulation, yet their reliance on success-only behavioral cloning leaves them brittle; lacki…
Precision Harvesting in Cluttered Environments: Integrating End Effector Design with Dual Camera Perception
Kendall Koe, Poojan Kalpeshbhai Shah, Benjamin Walt +7
Due to labor shortages in specialty crop industries, a need for robotic automation to increase agricultural efficiency and productivity has arisen. Previous manipulation systems pe…
PlantTrack: Task-Driven Plant Keypoint Tracking with Zero-Shot Sim2Real Transfer
Samhita Marri, Arun N. Sivakumar, Naveen K. Uppalapati +1
Tracking plant features is crucial for various agricultural tasks like phenotyping, pruning, or harvesting, but the unstructured, cluttered, and deformable nature of plant environm…
Gazebo Plants: Simulating Plant-Robot Interaction with Cosserat Rods
Junchen Deng, Samhita Marri, Jonathan Klein +4
Robotic harvesting has the potential to positively impact agricultural productivity, reduce costs, improve food quality, enhance sustainability, and to address labor shortage. In t…