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In-Hand Manipulation with Enforced Grasp Stability for Contact-Rich Tasks

Published in IEEE ICRA 2025 Workshop on Contact-Rich Manipulation (CRM), Atlanta, GA, 2025

Proposed reinforcement learning methods that integrate force-torque sensing and force-closure rewards to enhance in-hand grasp stability during dexterous manipulation.

Recommended citation: Y. Chen*, S. Lu*, H. Zhang, and K. Lynch. (2025). "In-Hand Manipulation with Enforced Grasp Stability for Contact-Rich Tasks." IEEE ICRA 2025 Workshop on Contact-Rich Manipulation (CRM), Atlanta, GA. [Online]. Available: https://openreview.net/forum?id=YK2YeuL2rU
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Explosive Legged Robotic Hopping: Energy Accumulation and Power Amplification via Pneumatic Augmentation

Published in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhabi, 2024

Designed a hybrid energy mechanism that stores kinetic energy as pneumatic energy to enhance jumping performance.

Recommended citation: Y. Chen, A. Gamboa-Gonzalez, M. Wehner, and X. Xiong. (2024). "Explosive Legged Robotic Hopping: Energy Accumulation and Power Amplification via Pneumatic Augmentation." 2024 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhabi. arXiv:2312.05773 [cs.RO].
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Pipe-finder: Adaptive, Lightweight Pipe Robot Integrating Origami Anisotropic Stiffness Structure

Published in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Koh Samui, Thailand, 2023

Developed an adaptive pipeline robot with Origami Anisotropic Stiffness Structure for enhanced flexibility and efficiency in navigation.

Recommended citation: Y. Chen, D. Yang, Z. Liu, B. Yang, and H. Wang. (2023). "Pipe-finder: Adaptive, Lightweight Pipe Robot Integrating Origami Anisotropic Stiffness Structure." 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Koh Samui, Thailand. doi: 10.1109/ROBIO58561.2023.10354759.
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