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Zulfiqar Zaidi

5 accepted papers

2025

Learning Diverse Robot Striking Motions with Diffusion Models and Kinematically Constrained Gradient Guidance

ICRA 2025

Advances in robot learning have enabled robots to generate skills for a variety of tasks. Yet, robot learning is typically sample inefficient, struggles to learn from data sources exhibiting varied behaviors, and does not naturally incorporate constraints. These properties are critical for fast, agi

Cited by 8SourceScholar
2025

Learning Wheelchair Tennis Navigation from Broadcast Videos with Domain Knowledge Transfer and Diffusion Motion Planning

ICRA 2025

In this paper, we propose a novel and generalizable zero-shot knowledge transfer framework that distills expert sports navigation strategies from web videos into robotic systems with adversarial constraints and out-of-distribution image trajectories. Our pipeline enables diffusion-based imitation le

Cited by 3SourceScholar
2024

Multi-Camera Asynchronous Ball Localization and Trajectory Prediction with Factor Graphs and Human Poses

ICRA 2024poster

The rapid and precise localization and prediction of a ball are critical for developing agile robots in ball sports, particularly in sports like tennis characterized by high-speed ball movements and powerful spins. The Magnus effect induced by spin adds complexity to trajectory prediction during fli…

Cited by 11SourceScholar
2023

Athletic Mobile Manipulator System for Robotic Wheelchair Tennis

RA-L 2023

Athletics are a quintessential and universal expression of humanity. From French monks who in the <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$12{\text{th}}$</tex-math></inline-formula> century invented <italic

Cited by 25SourcecodeScholar
2022

LanCon-Learn: Learning With Language to Enable Generalization in Multi-Task Manipulation

RA-L 2022

Robots must be capable of learning from previously solved tasks and generalizing that knowledge to quickly perform new tasks to realize the vision of ubiquitous and useful robot assistance in the real world. While multi-task learning research has produced agents capable of performing multiple tasks,

Cited by 39SourceScholar