7 papers
ALORE: Autonomous Large-Object Rearrangement with a Legged Manipulator
Zhihai Bi, Yushan Zhang, Kai Chen +3
Endowing robots with the ability to rearrange various large and heavy objects, such as furniture, can substantially alleviate human workload. However, this task is extremely challe…
Fast and Safe Trajectory Optimization for Mobile Manipulators With Neural Configuration Space Distance Field
Yulin Li, Zhiyuan Song, Yiming Li +8
Mobile manipulators promise agile, long-horizon behavior by coordinating base and arm motion, yet whole-body trajectory optimization in cluttered, confined spaces remains difficult…
Online Trajectory Optimization for Arbitrary-Shaped Mobile Robots via Polynomial Separating Hypersurfaces
Shuoye Li, Zhiyuan Song, Yulin Li +2
An emerging class of trajectory optimization methods enforces collision avoidance by jointly optimizing the robot's configuration and a separating hyperplane. However, as linear se…
Embracing Bulky Objects with Humanoid Robots: Whole-Body Manipulation with Reinforcement Learning
Chunxin Zheng, Kai Chen, Zhihai Bi +5
Whole-body manipulation (WBM) for humanoid robots presents a promising approach for executing embracing tasks involving bulky objects, where traditional grasping relying on end-eff…
SAMP: Spatial Anchor-based Motion Policy for Collision-Aware Robotic Manipulators
Kai Chen, Zhihai Bi, Guoyang Zhao +4
Neural-based motion planning methods have achieved remarkable progress for robotic manipulators, yet a fundamental challenge lies in simultaneously accounting for both the robot's…
On the Surprising Robustness of Sequential Convex Optimization for Contact-Implicit Motion Planning
Yulin Li, Haoyu Han, Shucheng Kang +2
Contact-implicit motion planning-embedding contact sequencing as implicit complementarity constraints-holds the promise of leveraging continuous optimization to discover new contac…