6 papers
Learning to Drive is a Free Gift: Large-Scale Label-Free Autonomy Pretraining from Unposed In-The-Wild Videos
Matthew Strong, Wei-Jer Chang, Quentin Herau +4
Ego-centric driving videos available online provide an abundant source of visual data for autonomous driving, yet their lack of annotations makes it difficult to learn representati…
SPACeR: Self-Play Anchoring with Centralized Reference Models
Wei-Jer Chang, Akshay Rangesh, Kevin Joseph +4
Developing autonomous vehicles (AVs) requires not only safety and efficiency, but also realistic, human-like behaviors that are socially aware and predictable. Achieving this requi…
DexFruit: Dexterous Manipulation and Gaussian Splatting Inspection of Fruit
Aiden Swann, Alex Qiu, Matthew Strong +4
DexFruit is a robotic manipulation framework that enables gentle, autonomous handling of fragile fruit and precise evaluation of damage. Many fruits are fragile and prone to bruisi…
TensorTouch: Calibration of Tactile Sensors for High Resolution Stress Tensor and Deformation for Dexterous Manipulation
Won Kyung Do, Matthew Strong, Aiden Swann +2
Advanced dexterous manipulation involving multiple simultaneous contacts across different surfaces, like pinching coins from ground or manipulating intertwined objects, remains cha…
J-PARSE: Jacobian-based Projection Algorithm for Resolving Singularities Effectively in Inverse Kinematic Control of Serial Manipulators
Shivani Guptasarma, Matthew Strong, Honghao Zhen +1
J-PARSE is an algorithm for smooth first-order inverse kinematic control of a serial manipulator near kinematic singularities. The commanded end-effector velocity is interpreted co…
Next Best Sense: Guiding Vision and Touch with FisherRF for 3D Gaussian Splatting
Matthew Strong, Boshu Lei, Aiden Swann +3
We propose a framework for active next best view and touch selection for robotic manipulators using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). 3DGS is emerging as a useful explicit 3D scene rep…