7 accepted papers
Dexterous grasp generation that considers armrelated constraints is crucial in real-world scenarios involving armenvironment collision avoidance, workspace boundary grasps, and consecutive grasping. Existing hand-centric grasp models, which primarily focus on the floating hand's pose, are insufficie
Accurate scene perception is critical for vision-based robotic manipulation. Existing approaches typically follow either a Vision-to-Action V-A paradigm, predicting actions directly from visual inputs, or a Vision-to-3D-to-Action V-3D-A paradigm, leveraging intermediate 3D representations. However, …
Full-configuration control of robotic manipulators with awareness of whole-arm kinematics is crucial for many manipulation scenarios involving body collision avoidance or body-object interactions, making it insufficient to consider only the end-effector poses in policy learning. The typical approach
Ultrasound scanning is a critical imaging technique for real-time, non-invasive diagnostics. However, variations in patient anatomy and complex human-in-the-loop interactions pose significant challenges for autonomous robotic scanning. Existing ultrasound scanning robots are commonly limited to rela
Manipulating deformable linear objects (DLOs) to achieve desired shapes in constrained environments with obstacles is a meaningful but challenging task. Global planning is necessary for such a highly-constrained task; however, accurate models of DLOs required by planners are difficult to obtain owin…
Accurately and robustly estimating the state of deformable linear objects (DLOs), such as ropes and wires, is crucial for DLO manipulation and other applications. However, it remains a challenging open issue due to the high dimensionality of the state space, frequent occlusions, and noises. This pap…
The accuracy of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) generally improves when fueled with high resolution images. However, this often comes at a high computational cost and high memory footprint. Inspired by the fact that not all regions in an image are task-relevant, we propose a novel framewor…