3 papers
cs.RO2026
Approximating Global Contact-Implicit MPC via Sampling and Local Complementarity
Sharanya Venkatesh, Bibit Bianchini, Alp Aydinoglu +2
To achieve general-purpose dexterous manipulation, robots must rapidly devise and execute contact-rich behaviors. Existing model-based controllers are incapable of globally optimiz…
cs.RO2026
Push Anything: Single- and Multi-Object Pushing From First Sight with Contact-Implicit MPC
Hien Bui, Yufeiyang Gao, Haoran Yang +6
Non-prehensile manipulation of diverse objects remains a core challenge in robotics, driven by unknown physical properties and the complexity of contact-rich interactions. Recent a…
cs.RO2025
Vysics: Object Reconstruction Under Occlusion by Fusing Vision and Contact-Rich Physics
Bibit Bianchini, Minghan Zhu, Mengti Sun +3
We introduce Vysics, a vision-and-physics framework for a robot to build an expressive geometry and dynamics model of a single rigid body, using a seconds-long RGBD video and the r…