no code implementations • 12 Dec 2024 • Xueting Li, Ye Yuan, Shalini De Mello, Gilles Daviet, Jonathan Leaf, Miles Macklin, Jan Kautz, Umar Iqbal
Specifically, we first employ three text-conditioned 3D generative models to generate garment mesh, body shape and hair strands from the given text prompt.
no code implementations • 20 Aug 2024 • Alireza Moradzadeh, Lukasz Wawrzyniak, Miles Macklin, Saee G. Paliwal
In this work, we present a GPU-accelerated library for the underlying components of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs), along with an algorithm to eliminate bounded grids in KANs.
no code implementations • 28 Nov 2023 • Shutong Zhang, Yi-Ling Qiao, Guanglei Zhu, Eric Heiden, Dylan Turpin, Jingzhou Liu, Ming Lin, Miles Macklin, Animesh Garg
We demonstrate that HandyPriors attains comparable or superior results in the pose estimation task, and that the differentiable physics module can predict contact information for pose refinement.
2 code implementations • 7 May 2022 • Yashraj Narang, Kier Storey, Iretiayo Akinola, Miles Macklin, Philipp Reist, Lukasz Wawrzyniak, Yunrong Guo, Adam Moravanszky, Gavriel State, Michelle Lu, Ankur Handa, Dieter Fox
We aim for Factory to open the doors to using simulation for robotic assembly, as well as many other contact-rich applications in robotics.
1 code implementation • ICLR 2022 • Jie Xu, Viktor Makoviychuk, Yashraj Narang, Fabio Ramos, Wojciech Matusik, Animesh Garg, Miles Macklin
In this work we present a high-performance differentiable simulator and a new policy learning algorithm (SHAC) that can effectively leverage simulation gradients, even in the presence of non-smoothness.
no code implementations • 19 Mar 2022 • Eric Heiden, Miles Macklin, Yashraj Narang, Dieter Fox, Animesh Garg, Fabio Ramos
In this work, we present DiSECt: the first differentiable simulator for cutting soft materials.
7 code implementations • 24 Aug 2021 • Viktor Makoviychuk, Lukasz Wawrzyniak, Yunrong Guo, Michelle Lu, Kier Storey, Miles Macklin, David Hoeller, Nikita Rudin, Arthur Allshire, Ankur Handa, Gavriel State
Isaac Gym offers a high performance learning platform to train policies for wide variety of robotics tasks directly on GPU.
no code implementations • ICLR 2021 • Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula, Miles Macklin, Florian Golemo, Vikram Voleti, Linda Petrini, Martin Weiss, Breandan Considine, Jerome Parent-Levesque, Kevin Xie, Kenny Erleben, Liam Paull, Florian Shkurti, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Sanja Fidler
We consider the problem of estimating an object's physical properties such as mass, friction, and elasticity directly from video sequences.
no code implementations • 12 Oct 2018 • Jacky Liang, Viktor Makoviychuk, Ankur Handa, Nuttapong Chentanez, Miles Macklin, Dieter Fox
Most Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep RL) algorithms require a prohibitively large number of training samples for learning complex tasks.
Robotics
no code implementations • 12 Oct 2018 • Yevgen Chebotar, Ankur Handa, Viktor Makoviychuk, Miles Macklin, Jan Issac, Nathan Ratliff, Dieter Fox
In doing so, we are able to change the distribution of simulations to improve the policy transfer by matching the policy behavior in simulation and the real world.