14 accepted papers
Beyond pick-place and quasi-static manipulation, robots are increasingly expected to perform more interactive and dynamic tasks in our daily life. However, it is still very challenging for the traditional manipulator because of its high stiffness and large mass/inertia. To address the above issues,
With the increasing demand for lightweight, large payload-to-weight ratio, and highly dynamic robotic arms for general-purpose applications, conventional designs inevitably face a significant trade-off among safety, payload capacity, and motion agility. This paper presents a 7 degree-of-freedom cabl
Forward-looking sonar is essential for underwater perception especially in turbid waters, yet its images are often strongly degraded by various noises, including speckle, sidelobe, and structural noises, which severely hinder downstream tasks such as underwater reconstruction, positioning, and navig…
Scientific and engineering applications are often heterogeneous, making it beneficial to account for latent clusters or sub-populations when learning low-dimensional subspaces in supervised learning, and vice versa. In this paper, we combine the concept of subspace clustering with model-based suffic…
Cable-driven segmented manipulators (CDSMs) have high dexterity and large bending characteristics with less motors, which have great potential for long-range manipulation in structured environment. However, as joints’ number and segments’ length increase, the synchronous performance will largely dec
Reliable contact simulation plays a key role in the development of (semi-)autonomous robots, especially when dealing with contact-rich manipulation scenarios, an active robotics research topic. Besides simulation, components such as sensing, perception, data collection, robot hardware control, human…
Multi-robot teams can achieve more dexterous, complex and heavier payload tasks than a single robot, yet effective collaboration is required. Multi-robot collaboration is extremely challenging due to the different kinematic and dynamics capabilities of the robots, the limited communication between t
This paper introduces a novel task-space decomposed motion planning framework for multi-robot simultaneous locomotion and manipulation. When several manipulators hold an object, closed-chain kinematic constraints are formed, and it will make the motion planning problems challenging by inducing lower…
This paper makes a first attempt to bring the Shape from Polarization (SfP) problem to the realm of deep learning. The previous state-of-the-art methods for SfP have been purely physics-based. We see value in these principled models, and blend these physical models as priors into a neural network ar…
The transition from free motion to contact is a challenging problem in robotics, in part due to its hybrid nature. Additionally, disregarding the effects of impacts at the motion planning level often results in intractable impulsive contact forces. In this paper, we introduce an impact-aware multi-m…
For traditional manipulators, there is a large number of electrical cables between the motion controller and the joint servo controllers. It is very inconvenient for maintenance, update, and safe operation. In this paper, we develop a lightweight redundant manipulator with high stable wireless commu…
Capturing a moving object with large momentum by a dual-arm robot is especially challenging because of the requirement of dual-arm coordinated motion planning for tracking the moving object, and the operational force control for contact and momentum transfer. In this paper, we present a dual-arm coo…
With the rapid development of robotics, dual-arm robots have been more and more widely used. Compared with the traditional single manipulator, it is very challenging for a dual-arm robot in modelling, planning and control. In this paper, we propose two compliance control methods for dual arm coordin…
In this paper, we developed a small wheel-legged mobile robot system, which could walk on different road environments using wheels or legs. It is composed of mechanical, sensor and control subsystems. The mechanical subsystem includes a wheel-legged mobile platform, a rigid robotic arm and a flexibl…