no code implementations • 3 Dec 2024 • Xuanlin Li, Tong Zhao, Xinghao Zhu, Jiuguang Wang, Tao Pang, Kuan Fang
Contact-rich bimanual manipulation involves precise coordination of two arms to change object states through strategically selected contacts and motions.
no code implementations • 12 Nov 2024 • Sonia Raychaudhuri, Duy Ta, Katrina Ashton, Angel X. Chang, Jiuguang Wang, Bernadette Bucher
We present a new dataset, OC-VLN, in order to distinctly evaluate grounding object-centric natural language navigation instructions in a method for performing landmark-based navigation.
no code implementations • 10 Nov 2024 • Yuki Shirai, Tong Zhao, H. J. Terry Suh, Huaijiang Zhu, Xinpei Ni, Jiuguang Wang, Max Simchowitz, Tao Pang
Designing planners and controllers for contact-rich manipulation is extremely challenging as contact violates the smoothness conditions that many gradient-based controller synthesis tools assume.
no code implementations • 23 Oct 2024 • YiXuan Wang, Guang Yin, Binghao Huang, Tarik Kelestemur, Jiuguang Wang, Yunzhu Li
Diffusion-based policies have shown remarkable capability in executing complex robotic manipulation tasks but lack explicit characterization of geometry and semantics, which often limits their ability to generalize to unseen objects and layouts.
no code implementations • 30 Sep 2024 • Russell Mendonca, Emmanuel Panov, Bernadette Bucher, Jiuguang Wang, Deepak Pathak
We present a fully autonomous real-world RL framework for mobile manipulation that can learn policies without extensive instrumentation or human supervision.
no code implementations • 1 Jul 2024 • Dian Wang, Stephen Hart, David Surovik, Tarik Kelestemur, Haojie Huang, Haibo Zhao, Mark Yeatman, Jiuguang Wang, Robin Walters, Robert Platt
Recent work has shown diffusion models are an effective approach to learning the multimodal distributions arising from demonstration data in behavior cloning.
1 code implementation • 6 Dec 2023 • Naoki Yokoyama, Sehoon Ha, Dhruv Batra, Jiuguang Wang, Bernadette Bucher
Understanding how humans leverage semantic knowledge to navigate unfamiliar environments and decide where to explore next is pivotal for developing robots capable of human-like search behaviors.
2 code implementations • 10 Nov 2023 • Xiaoyi Cai, Siddharth Ancha, Lakshay Sharma, Philip R. Osteen, Bernadette Bucher, Stephen Phillips, Jiuguang Wang, Michael Everett, Nicholas Roy, Jonathan P. How
For uncertainty quantification, we efficiently model both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty by learning discrete traction distributions and probability densities of the traction predictor's latent features.