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Nonprehensile manipulation involves long horizon underactuated object interactions and physical contact with different objects that can inherently introduce a high degree of uncertainty. In this work, we introduce a novel Real-to-Sim reward…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Hamid Izadinia , Byron Boots , Steven M. Seitz

Considering the driving habits which are learned from the naturalistic driving data in the path-tracking system can significantly improve the acceptance of intelligent vehicles. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to generate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Boyang Wang , Zirui Li , Jianwei Gong , Yidi Liu , Huiyan Chen , Chao Lu

Achieving generalizable bimanual manipulation requires systems that can learn efficiently from minimal human input while adapting to real-world uncertainties and diverse embodiments. Existing approaches face a dilemma: imitation policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Huayi Zhou , Kui Jia

The performance of learned robot visuomotor policies is heavily dependent on the size and quality of the training dataset. Although large-scale robot and human datasets are increasingly available, embodiment gaps and mismatched action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yiqi Wang , Mrinal Verghese , Jeff Schneider

Parameterized movement primitives have been extensively used for imitation learning of robotic tasks. However, the high-dimensionality of the parameter space hinders the improvement of such primitives in the reinforcement learning (RL)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Samuele Tosatto , Georgia Chalvatzaki , Jan Peters

The linearization of the equations of motion of a robotics system about a given state-input trajectory, including a controlled equilibrium state, is a valuable tool for model-based planning, closed-loop control, gain tuning, and state…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Martijn Bos , Silvio Traversaro , Daniele Pucci , Alessandro Saccon

Precision is a crucial performance indicator for robot arms, as high precision manipulation allows for a wider range of applications. Traditional methods for improving robot arm precision rely on error compensation. However, these methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Qu Weiming , Liu Tianlin , Luo Dingsheng

This paper proposes a technique to manipulate an object with a nonholonomic mobile robot by pushing, which is a nonprehensile manipulation motion primitive. Such a primitive involves unilateral constraints associated with the friction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Filippo Bertoncelli , Fabio Ruggiero , Lorenzo Sabattini

Robotic grasping is a fundamental ability for a robot to interact with the environment. Current methods focus on how to obtain a stable and reliable grasping pose in object level, while little work has been studied on part (shape)-wise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yaoxian Song , Penglei Sun , Piaopiao Jin , Yi Ren , Yu Zheng , Zhixu Li , Xiaowen Chu , Yue Zhang , Tiefeng Li , Jason Gu

Learning robot manipulation policies from raw, real-world image data requires a large number of robot-action trials in the physical environment. Although training using simulations offers a cost-effective alternative, the visual domain gap…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Yuekun Wu , Yik Lung Pang , Andrea Cavallaro , Changjae Oh

In medical tasks such as human motion analysis, computer-aided auxiliary systems have become preferred choice for human experts for its high efficiency. However, conventional approaches are typically based on user-defined features such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Honghu Xue , Rebecca Herzog , Till M Berger , Tobias Bäumer , Anne Weissbach , Elmar Rueckert

Robotic manipulation can be formulated as inducing a sequence of spatial displacements: where the space being moved can encompass an object, part of an object, or end effector. In this work, we propose the Transporter Network, a simple…

We present a novel method for learning hybrid force/position control from demonstration. We learn a dynamic constraint frame aligned to the direction of desired force using Cartesian Dynamic Movement Primitives. In contrast to approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Adam Conkey , Tucker Hermans

Robot kinematics data, despite being a high dimensional process, is highly correlated, especially when considering motions grouped in certain primitives. These almost linear correlations within primitives allow us to interpret the motions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Vsevolod Nikulin , Jun Tani

Autonomous robots must reason about the physical consequences of their actions to operate effectively in unstructured, real-world environments. We present Scan, Materialize, Simulate (SMS), a unified framework that combines 3D Gaussian…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Amine Elhafsi , Daniel Morton , Marco Pavone

A core challenge for an autonomous agent acting in the real world is to adapt its repertoire of skills to cope with its noisy perception and dynamics. To scale learning of skills to long-horizon tasks, robots should be able to learn and…

Recent robot learning methods commonly rely on imitation learning from massive robotic dataset collected with teleoperation. When facing a new task, such methods generally require collecting a set of new teleoperation data and finetuning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiang Zhu , Yichen Liu , Hezhong Li , Jianyu Chen

Robotic manipulation is essential for the widespread adoption of robots in industrial and home settings and has long been a focus within the robotics community. Advances in artificial intelligence have introduced promising learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Kelin Li , Shubham M Wagh , Nitish Sharma , Saksham Bhadani , Wei Chen , Chang Liu , Petar Kormushev

We introduce the Riemannian Motion Policy (RMP), a new mathematical object for modular motion generation. An RMP is a second-order dynamical system (acceleration field or motion policy) coupled with a corresponding Riemannian metric. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Nathan D. Ratliff , Jan Issac , Daniel Kappler , Stan Birchfield , Dieter Fox

Vision-centric hierarchical embodied models have demonstrated strong potential. However, existing methods lack spatial awareness capabilities, limiting their effectiveness in bridging visual plans to actionable control in complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yijun Liu , Yuwei Liu , Yuan Meng , Jieheng Zhang , Yuwei Zhou , Ye Li , Jiacheng Jiang , Kangye Ji , Shijia Ge , Zhi Wang , Wenwu Zhu