10 papers
ContactExplorer: Contact Coverage-Guided Exploration for General-Purpose Dexterous Manipulation
Zixuan Liu, Ruoyi Qiao, Chenrui Tie +5
Reinforcement learning has achieved remarkable success in domains such as Atari games, navigation, and locomotion, where exploration can often be guided by novelty over states or d…
Goal-VLA: Image-Generative VLMs as Object-Centric World Models Empowering Zero-shot Robot Manipulation
Haonan Chen, Jingxiang Guo, Bangjun Wang +7
Generalization remains a fundamental challenge in robotic manipulation. To tackle this challenge, recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models build policies on top of Vision-Languag…
AdaptPNP: Integrating Prehensile and Non-Prehensile Skills for Adaptive Robotic Manipulation
Jinxuan Zhu, Chenrui Tie, Xinyi Cao +8
Non-prehensile (NP) manipulation, in which robots alter object states without forming stable grasps (for example, pushing, poking, or sliding), significantly broadens robotic manip…
Manual2Skill++: Connector-Aware General Robotic Assembly from Instruction Manuals via Vision-Language Models
Chenrui Tie, Shengxiang Sun, Yudi Lin +9
Assembly hinges on reliably forming connections between parts; yet most robotic approaches plan assembly sequences and part poses while treating connectors as an afterthought. Conn…
RoTri-Diff: A Spatial Robot-Object Triadic Interaction-Guided Diffusion Model for Bimanual Manipulation
Zixuan Chen, Nga Teng Chan, Yiwen Hou +8
Bimanual manipulation is a fundamental robotic skill that requires continuous and precise coordination between two arms. While imitation learning (IL) is the dominant paradigm for…
Learning Part-Aware Dense 3D Feature Field for Generalizable Articulated Object Manipulation
Yue Chen, Muqing Jiang, Kaifeng Zheng +5
Articulated object manipulation is essential for various real-world robotic tasks, yet generalizing across diverse objects remains a major challenge. A key to generalization lies i…