Tom Gao — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

SPLATART: Articulated Gaussian Splatting with Estimated Object Structure

Stanley R. Lewis, Vishal Chandra, Tom Gao, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

IROS 2025

Representing articulated objects remains a difficult problem within the field of robotics. Objects such as pliers, clamps, or cabinets require representations that capture not only geometry and color information, but also part seperation, connectivity, and joint parametrization. Furthermore, learnin

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2024

MBot: A Modular Ecosystem for Scalable Robotics Education

Peter Gaskell, Jana Pavlasek, Tom Gao, Abhishek Narula, Stanley Lewis, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

ICRA 2024poster

The Michigan Robotics MBot is a low-cost mobile robot platform that has been used to train over 1,400 students in autonomous navigation since 2014 at the University of Michigan and our collaborating colleges. The MBot platform was designed to meet the needs of teaching robotics at scale to match the…

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