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20022025
most citedThe Cyborg Astrobiologist: Scouting Red Beds for Uncommon Features with Geological Significance

13 citations · 31 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

HydroelasticTouch: Simulation of Tactile Sensors with Hydroelastic Contact Surfaces

David P. Leins, Florian Patzelt, Robert Haschke

Thanks to recent advancements in the development of inexpensive, high-resolution tactile sensors, touch sensing has become popular in contact-rich robotic manipulation tasks. With…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Precision-Focused Reinforcement Learning Model for Robotic Object Pushing

Lara Bergmann, David Leins, Robert Haschke +1

Non-prehensile manipulation, such as pushing objects to a desired target position, is an important skill for robots to assist humans in everyday situations. However, the task is ch…

cs.HC2024

Adaptive Kinematic Modeling for Improved Hand Posture Estimates Using a Haptic Glove

Kathrin Krieger, David P. Leins, Thorben Markmann +4

Most commercially available haptic gloves compromise the accuracy of hand-posture measurements in favor of a simpler design with fewer sensors. While inaccurate posture data is oft…

cs.RO2024

Towards Open-World Mobile Manipulation in Homes: Lessons from the Neurips 2023 HomeRobot Open Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation Challenge

Sriram Yenamandra, Arun Ramachandran, Mukul Khanna +42

In order to develop robots that can effectively serve as versatile and capable home assistants, it is crucial for them to reliably perceive and interact with a wide variety of obje…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

UniTeam: Open Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation Challenge

Andrew Melnik, Michael Büttner, Leon Harz +6

This report introduces our UniTeam agent - an improved baseline for the "HomeRobot: Open Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation" challenge. The challenge poses problems of navigation in un…

cs.RO2023

Language-Conditioned Semantic Search-Based Policy for Robotic Manipulation Tasks

Jannik Sheikh, Andrew Melnik, Gora Chand Nandi +1

Reinforcement learning and Imitation Learning approaches utilize policy learning strategies that are difficult to generalize well with just a few examples of a task. In this work,…