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James Ferguson

3 accepted papers

2026

DiffDef: A Diffusion Model for Generating Multimodal Goal Shapes from Demonstrations for Deformable Object Manipulation

ICRA 2026poster

Deformable object manipulation is pivotal to numerous real-world robotic applications. A promising paradigm in this field is the shape servoing task, focusing on controlling deformable objects into desired goal shapes. However, prior works typically rely on impractical goal shape acquisition methods…

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2026

Neural Operators for Design-Space Surrogate Modeling of Tendon-Actuated Continuum Robots

ICRA 2026poster

Continuum robots enable dexterous manipulation in constrained environments, but require accurate and efficient models for real-time manipulation and control. Traditional physics-based models can be computationally expensive and may suffer from inaccuracies due to unmodeled effects, while current lea…

2026

ProbeMDE: Uncertainty-Guided Active Proprioception for Monocular Depth Estimation in Surgical Robotics

ICRA 2026poster

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) provides a useful tool for robotic perception, but its predictions are often uncertain and inaccurate in challenging environments such as surgical scenes where textureless surfaces, specular reflections, and occlusions are common. To address this, we propose ProbeMDE…