Research
Research
Research
Research
924+ open-access research outputs.
Despite advances in dexterous hand manipulation, robotic hand design is still largely decoupled from task-driven evaluation and control, limiting systematic optimization. Existing robotic hand co-desi…
Robotic systems that interact with the physical world must reason about kinematic and dynamic constraints imposed by their own embodiment, their environment, and the task at hand. We introduce KinDER,…
Dexterous robot hands offer rich opportunities for multifunctional manipulation, where a robot must execute multiple skills in sequence while maintaining control over previously grasped objects. Most …
This study investigates the kinematic role of palm degrees of freedom (DoF) in enhancing thumb opposability in a five-finger robotic hand. A hand model consisting of a five DoF thumb and four fingers …
The current practice of dexterous manipulation generally relies on a single wrist-mounted view, which is often occluded and limits performance on tasks requiring multi-view perception. In this work, w…
In the design stage of robotic hands, it is not straightforward to quantitatively evaluate the effect of phalanx length ratios on dexterity without defining specific objects or manipulation tasks. The…
We present a soft corrugated tube sensor designed to estimate strain in each half segment. When air flows through the tube, the internal corrugated cavities induce pressure oscillations that excite th…
High-DOF dexterous hands require compact actuation, rich sensing, and reliable thermal behavior, but conventional designs often occupy valuable in-hand space, increase end-effector mass, and suffer fr…
We study the controllability of a linear KdV-Schr{\"o}dinger equation on the one-dimensional torus via purely imaginary bilinear controls. Considering controls spanning a suitable finite number of Fou…
Imitation learning is a powerful paradigm for training robotic policies, yet its performance is limited by compounding errors: minor policy inaccuracies could drive robots into unseen out-of-distribut…
Dexterous robotic manipulation requires more than geometrically valid grasps: it demands physically grounded contact strategies that account for the spatially non-uniform mechanical properties of the …
Dexterous manipulation requires planning a grasp configuration suited to the object and task, which is then executed through coordinated multi-finger control. However, specifying grasp plans with dens…
In this work, we revisit the discrete-time Schr\"{o}dinger Bridge (SB) and Density Steering (DS) problems for Gaussian mixture model (GMM) boundary distributions. Building on the existing literature, …
Hand impairment following neurological disorders substantially limits independence in activities of daily living, motivating the development of effective assistive and rehabilitation strategies. Soft …
Video-generative world models are increasingly used as neural simulators for embodied planning and policy learning, yet their ability to predict physical risk and severe consequences is rarely evaluat…
The system identification capabilities of a novel information-theoretic method are examined here. Specifically, this work uses information-theoretic metrics and vibration-based measurements to enhance…
Teleoperation is a key approach for collecting high-quality, physically consistent demonstrations for robotic manipulation. However, teleoperation for dexterous manipulation remains constrained by: (i…
The complexity of teaching humanoid robots new tasks is one of the major reasons hindering their widespread adoption in the industry. While Imitation Learning (IL), particularly Action Chunking with T…
Grasping deformable objects with varying stiffness remains a significant challenge in robotics. Estimating the local stiffness of a target object is important for determining an optimal grasp pose tha…
Motor kinematics prediction (MKP) from electroencephalography (EEG) is an important research area for developing movement-related brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). While traditional methods often rely…
Free open-access publishing with Google Scholar indexing.
Submission Guide →