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Thoughts on Dexterous Manipulation Tasks
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🖐️ Two Types of Dexterous Manipulation Tasks: Functional Grasping vs. In-Hand Manipulation
Learning Stability: Reflections on Physical Constraints in Dexterous Manipulation
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Over the past few months, I’ve been exploring how physical constraints—like force closure and contact stability—can be introduced directly into the learning process for in-hand manipulation. While most recent progress in dexterous robotic skills has focused on end-to-end reinforcement learning using vision or tactile images, I found myself wondering: what if we teach policies to care about physical grasp stability?
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Explosive Legged Robotic Hopping Robot
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Hybrid energy amplification via pneumatic augmentation for legged robots.
VR Force-feedback Gloves
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Electrostatic adhesive brake for variable force tactile feedback.
Origami Pipe-finder Robot
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Anisotropic stiffness structure enables adaptive navigation in pipelines.
In-Hand Manipulation with Enforced Grasp Stability
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Embedding force closure and torque sensing into RL for contact-rich manipulation.
Simulation Deployment for Bi-Manual Dexterous Teleoperation System
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Built simulation environments in Drake, MuJoCo, and Genesis to enable teleoperation and policy training for a high-DOF humanoid manipulation platform.
Unitree G1 Humanoid Motion Control Deployment
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Developed and deployed high-/low-level motion control framework for Unitree G1 humanoid robot, enabling dual-arm Dex3 manipulation, whole-body motion policies, and real-time multi-policy ONNX deployment. 
RDS 2025: Robotic Hand Control System
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Designed tendon-based kinematics and control software for a multi-DOF robotic hand with SEA-based compliant actuation and real-time CAN communication.
publications
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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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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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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teaching
Teaching experience 1
Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014
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Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
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