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Abraham George

4 accepted papers

2025

Low-Fidelity Visuo-Tactile Pre-Training Improves Vision-Only Manipulation Performance

IROS 2025

Tactile perception is essential for real-world manipulation tasks, yet the high cost and fragility of tactile sensors can limit their practicality. In this work, we explore BeadSight (a low-cost, open-source tactile sensor) alongside a tactile pre-training approach, an alternative method to precise,

Cited by 3SourcecodeScholar
2025

VITaL Pretraining: Visuo-Tactile Pretraining for Tactile and Non-Tactile Manipulation Policies

ICRA 2025

Tactile information is a critical tool for dexterous manipulation. As humans, we rely heavily on tactile information to understand objects in our environments and how to interact with them. We use touch not only to perform manipulation tasks but also to learn how to perform these tasks. Therefore, t

Cited by 25SourceScholar
2023

Minimizing Human Assistance: Augmenting a Single Demonstration for Deep Reinforcement Learning

ICRA 2023poster

The use of human demonstrations in reinforcement learning has proven to significantly improve agent performance. However, any requirement for a human to manually ‘teach’ the model is somewhat antithetical to the goals of reinforcement learning. This paper attempts to minimize human involvement in th…

Cited by 6SourceScholar