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Tony Tao

5 accepted papers

2025

Agile Mobility with Rapid Online Adaptation via Meta-Learning and Uncertainty-Aware MPPI

ICRA 2025

Modern non-linear model-based controllers require an accurate physics model and model parameters to be able to control mobile robots at their limits. Also, due to surface slipping at high speeds, the friction parameters may continually change (like tire degradation in autonomous racing), and the con

Cited by 3SourceScholar
2025

AnyCar to Anywhere: Learning Universal Dynamics Model for Agile and Adaptive Mobility

ICRA 2025

Recent works in the robot learning community have successfully introduced generalist models capable of controlling various robot embodiments across a wide range of tasks, such as navigation and locomotion. However, achieving agile control, which pushes the limits of robotic performance, still relies

Cited by 25SourceScholar
2025

DexWild: Dexterous Human Interactions for In-the-Wild Robot Policies

RSS 2025poster

Many believe that large-scale datasets for robotics could be a key enabler of dexterous robotic policies that can generalize across diverse environments. While teleoperation provides high-fidelity datasets, its high cost limits its scalability. Instead, what if people could use their own hands, just…

Cited by 1PDFScholar
2025

FACTR: Force-Attending Curriculum Training for Contact-Rich Policy Learning

RSS 2025poster

Many contact-rich tasks humans perform, such as box pickup or hammering, rely on force feedback for reliable execution. However, this force information, which is readily available in most robot arms, is not commonly used in teleoperation and policy learning. Consequently, robot behavior is often lim…

Cited by 1PDFScholar
2023

Linear Delta Arrays for Compliant Dexterous Distributed Manipulation

ICRA 2023poster

This paper presents a new type of distributed dexterous manipulator: delta arrays. Our delta array setup consists of 64 linearly-actuated delta robots with 3D-printed compliant linkages. Through the design of the individual delta robots, the modular array structure, and distributed communication and…

Cited by 5SourceScholar