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Language-controlled policies enable robots to follow human language instructions and execute complex tasks. While language-conditioned imitation learning has proven effective in teaching robots to perform tasks guided by language instructions, it faces multiple challenges due to the multimodal nature of human demonstrations and limited training data. The variability in demonstrations can complicat...Show More
Unsupervised non-rigid point cloud shape correspondence underpins a multitude of 3D vision tasks, yet itself is non-trivial given the exponential complexity stemming from inter-point degree-of-freedom, i.e., pose transformations. Based on the assumption of local rigidity, one solution for reducing complexity is to decompose the overall shape into independent local regions using Local Reference Fra...Show More
Traditional manufacturing in the computer, communication, and consumer electronics (3C) industries primarily relies on automation but lacks autonomous learning, decision-making, and adaptability. To address this challenge, this study introduces a multi-layer multi-level knowledge representation (MLMLKR) approach aimed at enhancing the adaptability and accuracy of assembly processes in 3C tasks. Th...Show More
Small-scale autonomous aerial vehicles (AAVs) are widely used in various fields. However, their underactuated design limits their ability to perform complex tasks that require physical interaction with environments. The fully-actuated Integrated Aerial Platforms (IAPs), where multiple AAVs are connected to a central platform via passive joints, offer a promising solution. However, achieving accura...Show More
6D pose estimation from a monocular RGB sensor is essential for robotic assembly. While deep learning approaches leverage priors from synthetic and labeled real-world data to estimate 6D poses, their generalizability is often constrained by the limited scale and realism of training datasets. Moreover, scale ambiguity is an inherent issue when image datasets are captured without calibration or dept...Show More
In this article, a novel simulation-to-real (sim2real) multimodal learning framework is proposed for adaptive dexterous grasping and grasp status prediction. A two-stage approach is built upon the Isaac Gym and several proposed pluggable modules, which can effectively simulate dexterous grasps with multimodal sensing data, including RGB-D images of grasping scenarios, joint angles, 3-D tactile for...Show More
Hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) exhibits remarkable potential in addressing large-scale and long-horizon complex tasks. However, a fundamental challenge, which arises from the inherently entangled nature of hierarchical policies, has not been understood well, consequently compromising the training stability and exploration efficiency of HRL. In this article, we propose a novel HRL algori...Show More
The label transition matrix has emerged as a widely accepted method for mitigating label noise in machine learning. In recent years, numerous studies have centered on leveraging deep neural networks to estimate the label transition matrix for individual instances within the context of instance-dependent noise. However, these methods suffer from low search efficiency due to the large space of feasi...Show More
This paper investigates a finite-time composite adaptive control strategy for hypersonic vehicles under model uncertainties and measurement noise, employing state observers. To mitigate the impact of stochastic uncertainties and measurement noise, a nonlinear observer with exponential convergence characteristics is designed to filter noise and generate state estimates. As the observer gain increas...Show More
Drawing inspiration from human fine tactile and proprioceptive kinaesthetic sensing pathways, we propose a soft magnetic skin (m-skin) with multimodal sensing functions integrated into the anthropomorphic robotic finger. This paper mainly explores the magnetic tactile sensor's structural design, performance analysis, and bimodal sensing. The realization recognizes the contact information and the s...Show More
Optical tactile sensors are extensively utilized in intelligent robot manipulation due to their ability to acquire high-resolution tactile information at a lower cost. However, achieving adequate reality and versatility in simulating optical tactile sensors is challenging. In this letter, we propose a simulation method and validate its effectiveness through experiments. We utilize path tracing for...Show More
Visual odometry is one of the key technologies for unmanned ground vehicles. To improve the robustness of the systems and enable intelligent tasks, researchers introduced learning-based recognition modules into visual odometry systems, but didn't realize tight coupling between visual odometry systems and recognition modules. This letter proposes a self-supervised semantic visual odometry method, w...Show More
In the interaction between dexterous hands and the environment, perception and operation are inseparable. Perception provides information and feedback for operations, and operations in turn affect the perception. Current VTS(visual-tactile sensors) lack initiative and cannot sense the state of the operated object in the world coordinate system. The AvTF(Active visual-tactile Fingertip) introduced ...Show More
Data-free knowledge distillation is able to utilize the knowledge learned by a large teacher network to augment the training of a smaller student network without accessing the original training data, avoiding privacy, security, and proprietary risks in real applications. In this line of research, existing methods typically follow an inversion-and-distillation paradigm in which a generative adversa...Show More
This study presents the design of a miniature vision-based tactile sensor (VTS) for compact integration with robotic grippers. VTSs have become a significant research area in the past decade known for their high-resolution capabilities. However, a common challenge faced by the VTS is their large size, which significantly limits the application scenarios. To solve this problem, in this article, we ...Show More
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown notable accomplishments in remote sensing (RS) domain. However, this article reveals that their performance on RS images falls short when compared to their impressive results with natural images. This study identifies a previously overlooked issue: GANs exhibit a heightened susceptibility to overfitting on RS images. To address this challenge, this...Show More
In this paper, we introduce PADUAV, a novel 5-DOF aerial platform designed to overcome the limitations of traditional tiltrotor vehicles. PADUAV features a unique mechanical design that incorporates two off-the-shelf quadrotors passively articulated to a rigid frame. This innovation enables free pitch rotation without mechanical constraints like cable winding, significantly enhancing its capabilit...Show More
Integrated aerial Platforms (IAPs), comprising multiple aircrafts, are typically fully actuated and hold significant potential for aerial manipulation tasks. Differing from a multiple aerial swarm, the aircrafts within the IAP are interconnected, presenting promising opportunities for enhancing localization. Incorporating the physical constraints of these multiple aircrafts to improve the accuracy...Show More
Model Predictive Control (MPC) has exhibited remarkable capabilities in optimizing objectives and meeting constraints. However, the substantial computational burden associated with solving the Optimal Control Problem (OCP) at each triggering instant introduces significant delays between state sampling and control application. These delays limit the practicality of MPC in resource-constrained syste...Show More
This paper presents a 6-DOF hybrid robot for percutaneous needle intervention procedures. The new robot combines the advantages of both serial robots and parallel robots, featuring compactness, high accuracy, and small footprint while overcoming the problems of the high cost of serial robots and the small workspace and singularity issue of parallel robots. Besides, by analyzing the workspace of th...Show More
Deep graph clustering, which aims to reveal the underlying graph structure and divide the nodes into different clusters without human annotations, is a fundamental yet challenging task. However, we observe that the existing methods suffer from the representation collapse problem and tend to encode samples with different classes into the same latent embedding. Consequently, the discriminative capab...Show More
Knowledge graph reasoning (KGR), aiming to deduce new facts from existing facts based on mined logic rules underlying knowledge graphs (KGs), has become a fast-growing research direction. It has been proven to significantly benefit the usage of KGs in many AI applications, such as question answering, recommendation systems, and etc. According to the graph types, existing KGR models can be roughly ...Show More
Tactile sensors, which provide information about the physical properties of objects, are an essential component of robotic systems. The visuotactile sensing technology with the merits of high resolution and low cost has facilitated the development of robotics from environment exploration to dexterous operation. Over the years, several reviews on visuotactile sensors for robots have been presented,...Show More
In the industrial assembly of flexible printed circuits (FPCs), the FPC connectors and receivers are required to connect successfully with the least possible buckling times. However, precise and autonomous positioning of the FPC connectors is still a great challenge, as they are very small and visually blocked during assembly. This article proposes a strategy for the industrial assembly of FPC by:...Show More
Learning the accurate dynamics of robotic systems directly from the trajectory data is currently a prominent research focus. Recent physics-enforced networks, exemplified by Hamiltonian neural networks and Lagrangian neural networks, demonstrate proficiency in modeling ideal physical systems, but face limitations when applied to systems with uncertain non-conservative dynamics due to the inherent ...Show More