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20152020
most citedSim-to-Real Transfer of Accurate Grasping with Eye-In-Hand Observations and Continuous Control

29 citations · 72 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.RO20201 cited

Learning Topological Motion Primitives for Knot Planning

Mengyuan Yan, Gen Li, Yilin Zhu +1

In this paper, we approach the challenging problem of motion planning for knot tying. We propose a hierarchical approach in which the top layer produces a topological plan and the…

cs.LG2020

GRAC: Self-Guided and Self-Regularized Actor-Critic

Lin Shao, Yifan You, Mengyuan Yan +2

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms have successfully been demonstrated on a range of challenging decision making and control tasks. One dominant component of recent deep…

cs.RO20206 cited

How to Close Sim-Real Gap? Transfer with Segmentation!

Mengyuan Yan, Qingyun Sun, Iuri Frosio +2

One fundamental difficulty in robotic learning is the sim-real gap problem. In this work, we propose to use segmentation as the interface between perception and control, as a domai…

cs.RO2019

Self-Supervised Learning of State Estimation for Manipulating Deformable Linear Objects

Mengyuan Yan, Yilin Zhu, Ning Jin +1

We demonstrate model-based, visual robot manipulation of linear deformable objects. Our approach is based on a state-space representation of the physical system that the robot aims…

cs.CV201916 cited

MeteorNet: Deep Learning on Dynamic 3D Point Cloud Sequences

Xingyu Liu, Mengyuan Yan, Jeannette Bohg

Understanding dynamic 3D environment is crucial for robotic agents and many other applications. We propose a novel neural network architecture called for learning repre…

cs.RO20191 cited

Learning Probabilistic Multi-Modal Actor Models for Vision-Based Robotic Grasping

Mengyuan Yan, Adrian Li, Mrinal Kalakrishnan +1

Many previous works approach vision-based robotic grasping by training a value network that evaluates grasp proposals. These approaches require an optimization process at run-time…