5 papers
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…
OSMO: Open-Source Tactile Glove for Human-to-Robot Skill Transfer
Jessica Yin, Haozhi Qi, Youngsun Wi +7
Human video demonstrations provide abundant training data for learning robot policies, but video alone cannot capture the rich contact signals critical for mastering manipulation.…
Decentralized Vision-Based Autonomous Aerial Wildlife Monitoring
Makram Chahine, William Yang, Alaa Maalouf +6
Wildlife field operations demand efficient parallel deployment methods to identify and interact with specific individuals, enabling simultaneous collective behavioral analysis, and…
A biconvex method for minimum-time motion planning through sequences of convex sets
Tobia Marcucci, Mathew Halm, Will Yang +2
We consider the problem of designing a smooth trajectory that traverses a sequence of convex sets in minimum time, while satisfying given velocity and acceleration constraints. Thi…
AAM-SEALS: Developing Aerial-Aquatic Manipulators in SEa, Air, and Land Simulator
William Yang, Karthikeya Kona, Yashveer Jain +4
Current mobile manipulators and high-fidelity simulators lack the ability to seamlessly operate and simulate across integrated environments spanning sea, air, and land. To address…