3 papers
cs.RO2026
FlexWorm: Primitive-augmented Hybrid Contact-motion Planning for Suction-based Multi-segment Deformable Robots
Zili Tang, Tiecheng Guo, Qinyue Zhang +1
Multi-segment suction-based soft robots are promising for inspection and maintenance in confined or fragile environments, but existing approaches still depend heavily on manually d…
cs.RO2025
PushingBots: Collaborative Pushing via Neural Accelerated Combinatorial Hybrid Optimization
Zili Tang, Ying Zhang, Meng Guo
Many robots are not equipped with a manipulator and many objects are not suitable for prehensile manipulation (such as large boxes and cylinders). In these cases, pushing is a simp…
cs.RO2024
Collaborative Planar Pushing of Polytopic Objects with Multiple Robots in Complex Scenes
Zili Tang, Yuming Feng, Meng Guo
Pushing is a simple yet effective skill for robots to interact with and further change the environment. Related work has been mostly focused on utilizing it as a non-prehensile man…