24 accepted papers
This paper presents ARTEMIS, an end-to-end autonomous driving framework that combines autoregressive trajectory planning with Mixture-of-Experts (MoE). Traditional modular methods suffer from error propagation, while existing end-to-end models typically employ static one-shot inference paradigms tha…
This paper presents ARTEMIS, an end-to-end autonomous driving framework that combines autoregressive trajectory planning with Mixture-of-Experts (MoE). Traditional modular methods suffer from error propagation, while existing end-to-end models typically employ static one-shot inference paradigms tha
Balancing convergence efficiency and robustness under Differential Privacy (DP) is a central challenge in Federated Learning (FL). Although AdamW accelerates training and fine-tuning in large-scale models, we find that directly applying it to Differentially Private FL (DPFL) suffers from three major
Fine-tuning large vision models (LVMs) and large language models (LLMs) under differentially private federated learning (DPFL) is hindered by a fundamental privacy-utility trade-off. Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), a promising parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) method, reduces computational and comm…
Robotic disinfection can relieve human operators from repetitive, labor‑intensive tasks while reducing the risk of pathogen transmission in public spaces. Recent advances in learning-based methods further enhance these systems by enabling robust dynamic task planning and the interpretation of ambigu…
Soft artificial muscle actuators have gained attention in robotics for their remote control, fast response, and high compliance. However, replicating the intricate and efficient motions of natural muscles remains a challenge. Existing designs often lack the hierarchical and anisotropic properties of
For pneumatic artificial muscles, it is always considered the more maximum contraction ratio the better. While for human joint assisting applications, PAMs with configurable maximum contraction rate are more suitable because of advantageous safety and adaptability. A PAM based on planar-to-specific-
Age-related sarcopenia weakens balance in older adults, highlighting the need for effective assistive robots. How-ever, existing assistive technologies often suffer from mechanical, kinematic, and control incompatibilities with the human body. Here, we present a wearable assistive robotic system tha
The growing complexity of robotic teleoperation systems necessitates the integration of multiple feedback modalities, including video, audio, force, tactile, and temperature feedback. The concept of supermedia is utilized to describe the aggregation of these feedback streams. By integrating multiple
Outsourcing neural network (NN) inference services to the cloud gives rise to considerable privacy concerns about the model provider’s proprietary model and the user’s private data. Current cryptography-based secure NN inference schemes are not suited for high-latency networks due to their numerous…
Spatio-temporal information is key to resolve occlusion and depth ambiguity in 3D human pose estimation. Previous methods have focused on either temporal contexts or local-to-global architectures that embed fixed-length spatiotemporal information. To date, there have not been effective proposals to…
Robot motion control aims to generate control inputs for a robotic system to track a planned trajectory. Feedback provided by sensors plays an essential role in motion control by improving system performance when external disturbances and/or initial errors exist. However, feedback signals, such as i…
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) based nanorobotic technology provides a unique manner for delicate operations at the nanoscale in various ambient, thanks to its ultrahigh spatial resolution, outstanding environmental adaptability, and numerous measurement approaches. However, one vital challenge behin
Bio-syncretic robots made up of living biological systems and electromechanical systems may have the potential excellent performance of natural biological entities. Therefore, the study of the bio-syncretic robots has got lots of attention in recent years. The 3D skeletal muscles have been used wide…
Micro-robots have a great application prospect in the biomedical field due to the feature of small size. To solve the issues of energy supply and bio-compatibility of micro-robots, bio-syncretic micro-robots composed of biological materials and electromechanical systems have been studied widely. The…
Many small insects such as water striders can leap from water surface. Inspired by their jumping capability, we present the design of a novel, miniature, water surface jumping robot in this paper. Jumping from water surface is more challenging than jumping from ground due to the liquid water surface
The robotic grasp detection is a great challenge in the area of robotics. Previous work mainly employs the visual approaches to solve this problem. In this paper, a hybrid deep architecture combining the visual and tactile sensing for robotic grasp detection is proposed. We have demonstrated that th…
Bio-syncretic robots, consisting of living biological materials and traditional electromechanical systems, have attracted lots of attention due to the potentialities of self-sensing, self-actuation and self-repairing with intrinsic safety and high energy conversion efficiency. However, most of curre…
This article develops a set space visual servoing method that is quiet different from state-of-the-art approaches. Our approach does not require complex image processing techniques for the extraction, matching and tracking of image features. Instead, it only requires a simple matching algorithm and…
Cellular mechanical properties as the main physical performance characteristics have been actively studied in the past years for the study of cytobiology and the development of medicine. In this study, by combining Hertz model, a novel strategy is proposed to simultaneously measure the cellular mech…
Nanorobot has the potential to automate the manipulation and observation processes at molecular scale. Current drug discovery process is labor and cost intensive. Thus, a strong demand exists to automate this process. Here, we developed an Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) based nanorobot for in situ se…
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a powerful measurement instrument, which has been widely implemented in various fields. To enhance the maneuverability, an AFM can be modified and its cantilever can be controlled as a robotic end-effector. To precisely control the nanorobots, their scanners inherent…
In this paper, two techniques have been presented for slippage detection. They are independent of sensor signal type and are promising for general use on tactile array sensors. The first method is based on frequency analysis of the correlation coefficient sequence of sensor array data sampled as tim…
Small insects can use vision to successfully land on arbitrary surfaces. For miniature robots with a size of a few centimeters, it is challenging to achieve similar capabilities due to their small sizes. To address this problem, we present a new vision based landing algorithm using a non-vector spac…