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Siqiong Yao

5 accepted papers

2026

Flow before Imitation: Learning Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation with Dynamic Visuotactile Shortcut Policy

ICRA 2026poster

Dexterous in-hand manipulation remains a long-standing challenge in robotics, primarily due to the complex contact dynamics and partial observability. While humans synergize vision and touch for such tasks, robotic approaches often prioritize one modality, therefore limiting adaptability. This paper…

Cited by 0Scholar
2024

Differentiable Cloth Parameter Identification and State Estimation in Manipulation

RA-L 2024

In the realm of robotic cloth manipulation, accurately estimating the cloth state during or post-execution is imperative. However, the inherent complexities in a cloth's dynamic behavior and its near-infinite degrees of freedom (DoF) pose significant challenges. Traditional methods have been restric

Cited by 14SourceScholar
2024

Intersection-Free Robot Manipulation With Soft-Rigid Coupled Incremental Potential Contact

RA-L 2024

This paper presents a novel simulation platform, ZeMa, designed for robotic manipulation tasks concerning soft objects. Such simulation ideally requires three properties: two-way soft-rigid coupling, intersection-free guarantee, and frictional contact modeling, with acceptable runtime suitable for l

Cited by 9SourceScholar
2023

Precise Robotic Needle-Threading with Tactile Perception and Reinforcement Learning

CoRL 2023poster

This work presents a novel tactile perception-based method, named T-NT, for performing the needle-threading task, an application of deformable linear object (DLO) manipulation. This task is divided into two main stages: \textit{Tail-end Finding} and \textit{Tail-end Insertion}. In the first stage, t…

Cited by 8SourceScholar
2023

Visual-Tactile Sensing for In-Hand Object Reconstruction

CVPR 2023poster

Tactile sensing is one of the modalities human rely on heavily to perceive the world. Working with vision, this modality refines local geometry structure, measures deformation at contact area, and indicates hand-object contact state. With the availability of open-source tactile sensors such as DIGIT…

Cited by 24SourcePDFScholar