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most citedTowards Robotic Assembly by Predicting Robust, Precise and Task-oriented Grasps

7 citations · 29 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

Fabrica: Dual-Arm Assembly of General Multi-Part Objects via Integrated Planning and Learning

Yunsheng Tian, Joshua Jacob, Yijiang Huang +10

Multi-part assembly poses significant challenges for robots to execute long-horizon, contact-rich manipulation with generalization across complex geometries. We present Fabrica, a…

cs.RO2025

PolyTouch: A Robust Multi-Modal Tactile Sensor for Contact-rich Manipulation Using Tactile-Diffusion Policies

Jialiang Zhao, Naveen Kuppuswamy, Siyuan Feng +2

Achieving robust dexterous manipulation in unstructured domestic environments remains a significant challenge in robotics. Even with state-of-the-art robot learning methods, haptic…

cs.RO2024★ 5 cited

Scaling Proprioceptive-Visual Learning with Heterogeneous Pre-trained Transformers

Lirui Wang, Xinlei Chen, Jialiang Zhao +1

One of the roadblocks for training generalist robotic models today is heterogeneity. Previous robot learning methods often collect data to train with one specific embodiment for on…

cs.RO2024

Learning Object Compliance via Young's Modulus from Single Grasps using Camera-Based Tactile Sensors

Michael Burgess, Jialiang Zhao, Laurence Willemet

Compliance is a useful parametrization of tactile information that humans often utilize in manipulation tasks. It can be used to inform low-level contact-rich actions or characteri…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Transferable Tactile Transformers for Representation Learning Across Diverse Sensors and Tasks

Jialiang Zhao, Yuxiang Ma, Lirui Wang +1

This paper presents T3: Transferable Tactile Transformers, a framework for tactile representation learning that scales across multi-sensors and multi-tasks. T3 is designed to overc…

cs.RO2024

GelLink: A Compact Multi-phalanx Finger with Vision-based Tactile Sensing and Proprioception

Yuxiang Ma, Jialiang Zhao, Edward Adelson

Compared to fully-actuated robotic end-effectors, underactuated ones are generally more adaptive, robust, and cost-effective. However, state estimation for underactuated hands is u…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

PoCo: Policy Composition from and for Heterogeneous Robot Learning

Lirui Wang, Jialiang Zhao, Yilun Du +2

Training general robotic policies from heterogeneous data for different tasks is a significant challenge. Existing robotic datasets vary in different modalities such as color, dept…

cs.RO2023★ 3 cited

GelSight Svelte Hand: A Three-finger, Two-DoF, Tactile-rich, Low-cost Robot Hand for Dexterous Manipulation

Jialiang Zhao, Edward H. Adelson

This paper presents GelSight Svelte Hand, a novel 3-finger 2-DoF tactile robotic hand that is capable of performing precision grasps, power grasps, and intermediate grasps. Rich ta…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

GelSight Svelte: A Human Finger-shaped Single-camera Tactile Robot Finger with Large Sensing Coverage and Proprioceptive Sensing

Jialiang Zhao, Edward H. Adelson

Camera-based tactile sensing is a low-cost, popular approach to obtain highly detailed contact geometry information. However, most existing camera-based tactile sensors are fingert…

cs.RO2023

FingerSLAM: Closed-loop Unknown Object Localization and Reconstruction from Visuo-tactile Feedback

Jialiang Zhao, Maria Bauza, Edward H. Adelson

In this paper, we address the problem of using visuo-tactile feedback for 6-DoF localization and 3D reconstruction of unknown in-hand objects. We propose FingerSLAM, a closed-loop…

cs.RO2021

Causal Reasoning in Simulation for Structure and Transfer Learning of Robot Manipulation Policies

Tabitha Edith Lee, Jialiang Zhao, Amrita S. Sawhney +2

We present CREST, an approach for causal reasoning in simulation to learn the relevant state space for a robot manipulation policy. Our approach conducts interventions using intern…

cs.RO2020★ 2 cited

Learning to Compose Hierarchical Object-Centric Controllers for Robotic Manipulation

Mohit Sharma, Jacky Liang, Jialiang Zhao +2

Manipulation tasks can often be decomposed into multiple subtasks performed in parallel, e.g., sliding an object to a goal pose while maintaining contact with a table. Individual s…

cs.RO2020★ 7 cited

Towards Robotic Assembly by Predicting Robust, Precise and Task-oriented Grasps

Jialiang Zhao, Daniel Troniak, Oliver Kroemer

Robust task-oriented grasp planning is vital for autonomous robotic precision assembly tasks. Knowledge of the objects' geometry and preconditions of the target task should be inco…

cs.RO2019★ 5 cited

Towards Precise Robotic Grasping by Probabilistic Post-grasp Displacement Estimation

Jialiang Zhao, Jacky Liang, Oliver Kroemer

Precise robotic grasping is important for many industrial applications, such as assembly and palletizing, where the location of the object needs to be controlled and known. However…

cs.CL2017★ 3 cited

Annotation and Detection of Emotion in Text-based Dialogue Systems with CNN

Jialiang Zhao, Qi Gao

Knowledge of users' emotion states helps improve human-computer interaction. In this work, we presented EmoNet, an emotion detector of Chinese daily dialogues based on deep convolu…