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CANINE: Coaching Visually Impaired Users for Interactive Navigation with a Robot Guide Dog
Cunjun Yu, Zishuo Wang, Anxing Xiao +2
Robot guide dogs offer navigation assistance that greatly expands the independent mobility of the visually impaired, but their effective use requires subtle human-robot coordinatio…
Active Contact Sensing for Robust Robot-to-Human Object Handover
Linfeng Li, Lin Shao, David Hsu
Robot-to-human object handover is an essential skill for robot assistants, from serving drinks at home to passing surgical tools in the operating room. We expect robots to perform…
Differentiable Contact Dynamics for Stable Object Placement Under Geometric Uncertainties
Linfeng Li, Gang Yang, Lin Shao +1
From serving a cup of coffee to positioning mechanical parts during assembly, stable object placement is a crucial skill for future robots. It becomes particularly challenging unde…
CLASP: General-Purpose Clothes Manipulation with Semantic Keypoints
Yuhong Deng, Chao Tang, Cunjun Yu +2
Clothes manipulation, such as folding or hanging, is a critical capability for home service robots. Despite recent advances, most existing methods remain limited to specific clothe…
Differentiable Particles for General-Purpose Deformable Object Manipulation
Siwei Chen, Yiqing Xu, Cunjun Yu +2
Deformable object manipulation is a long-standing challenge in robotics. While existing approaches often focus narrowly on a specific type of object, we seek a general-purpose algo…