no code implementations • 21 Nov 2023 • Andrew Spielberg, Fangcheng Zhong, Konstantinos Rematas, Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula, Cengiz Oztireli, Tzu-Mao Li, Derek Nowrouzezahrai
This approach is predicated by neural network differentiability, the requirement that analytic derivatives of a given problem's task metric can be computed with respect to neural network's parameters.
no code implementations • 25 Jul 2023 • Liane Makatura, Michael Foshey, Bohan Wang, Felix HähnLein, Pingchuan Ma, Bolei Deng, Megan Tjandrasuwita, Andrew Spielberg, Crystal Elaine Owens, Peter Yichen Chen, Allan Zhao, Amy Zhu, Wil J Norton, Edward Gu, Joshua Jacob, Yifei Li, Adriana Schulz, Wojciech Matusik
The advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), including GPT-4, provides exciting new opportunities for generative design.
no code implementations • 5 Jun 2023 • David Matthews, Andrew Spielberg, Daniela Rus, Sam Kriegman, Josh Bongard
Robots are notoriously difficult to design because of complex interdependencies between their physical structure, sensory and motor layouts, and behavior.
1 code implementation • 29 Jan 2023 • Samarth Brahmbhatt, Ankur Deka, Andrew Spielberg, Matthias Müller
In this paper we train a contact-exploiting manipulation policy in simulation for the contact-rich household task of loading plates into a slotted holder, which transfers without any fine-tuning to the real robot.
no code implementations • 2 Apr 2021 • Pingchuan Ma, Tao Du, John Z. Zhang, Kui Wu, Andrew Spielberg, Robert K. Katzschmann, Wojciech Matusik
The computational design of soft underwater swimmers is challenging because of the high degrees of freedom in soft-body modeling.
no code implementations • 15 Jan 2021 • Tao Du, Kui Wu, Pingchuan Ma, Sebastien Wah, Andrew Spielberg, Daniela Rus, Wojciech Matusik
Inspired by Projective Dynamics (PD), we present Differentiable Projective Dynamics (DiffPD), an efficient differentiable soft-body simulator based on PD with implicit time integration.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2019 • Andrew Spielberg, Allan Zhao, Yuanming Hu, Tao Du, Wojciech Matusik, Daniela Rus
We validate the behavior of our algorithm with visualizations of the learned representation.
no code implementations • 25 Sep 2019 • Tao Du, Yunfei Li, Jie Xu, Andrew Spielberg, Kui Wu, Daniela Rus, Wojciech Matusik
Over the last decade, two competing control strategies have emerged for solving complex control tasks with high efficacy.
no code implementations • 2 Oct 2018 • Yuanming Hu, Jian-Cheng Liu, Andrew Spielberg, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, William T. Freeman, Jiajun Wu, Daniela Rus, Wojciech Matusik
The underlying physical laws of deformable objects are more complex, and the resulting systems have orders of magnitude more degrees of freedom and therefore they are significantly more computationally expensive to simulate.