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Jonathan Heewon Yang

5 accepted papers

2025

Bridging Perception and Action: Spatially-Grounded Mid-Level Representations for Robot Generalization

RSS 2025poster

In this work, we investigate how spatially-grounded auxiliary representations can provide both broad, high-level grounding, as well as direct, actionable information, and help policy learning performance and generalization. We study these mid-level representations across three critical dimensions: o…

Cited by 0PDFScholar
2024

DROID: A Large-Scale In-The-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset

RSS 2024poster

The creation of large, diverse, high-quality robot manipulation datasets is an important stepping stone on the path toward more capable and robust robotic manipulation policies. However, creating such datasets is challenging: collecting robot manipulation data in diverse environments poses logistica…

Cited by 216SourcePDFScholar
2024

Pushing the Limits of Cross-Embodiment Learning for Manipulation and Navigation

RSS 2024poster

Recent years in robotics and imitation learning have shown remarkable progress in training large-scale foundation models by leveraging data across a multitude of embodiments. The success of such policies might lead us to wonder: just how diverse can the robots in the training set be while still faci…

2023

Polybot: Training One Policy Across Robots While Embracing Variability

CoRL 2023poster

Reusing large datasets is crucial to scale vision-based robotic manipulators to everyday scenarios due to the high cost of collecting robotic datasets. However, robotic platforms possess varying control schemes, camera viewpoints, kinematic configurations, and end-effector morphologies, posing signi…

Cited by 27SourceScholar
2022

Don’t Start From Scratch: Leveraging Prior Data to Automate Robotic Reinforcement Learning

CoRL 2022poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms hold the promise of enabling autonomous skill acquisition for robotic systems. However, in practice, real-world robotic RL typically requires time consuming data collection and frequent human intervention to reset the environment. Moreover, robotic policies lea…

Cited by 48SourceScholar