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Research Topics: All Topics / Science Robotics & Nature Machine Intelligence / Dexterous Hands & Tactile Manipulation / Manipulation / Teleoperation / Legged Locomotion & Mobility

Hierarchical generative modelling for autonomous robots

Hierarchical Generative Modelling for Autonomous Robots

Kai Yuan, Noor Sajid, Karl Friston, Zhibin Li†

Nature Machine Intelligence, Vol 5, 1402–1414, 2023

Hybrid hierarchical learning for complex robotic tasks

RObotic MAnipulation Network (RO-MAN): Hybrid Hierarchical Learning for Solving Complex Sequential Tasks

Eleftherios Triantafyllidis, Fernando Acero, Zhaocheng Liu, Zhibin Li†

Nature Machine Intelligence, Vol 5, 991–1005, 2023

Sensory feedback in robot locomotion learning

Identifying Important Sensory Feedback for Learning Locomotion Skills

Wanming Yu, Chuanyu Yang, Christopher McGreavy, Eleftherios Triantafyllidis, Guillaume Bellegarda, Milad Shafiee, Auke Jan Ijspeert, Zhibin Li†

Nature Machine Intelligence, Vol 5, 919–932, 2023

Multi-expert learning for legged locomotion

Multi-Expert Learning of Adaptive Legged Locomotion

Chuanyu Yang, Kai Yuan, Wanming Yu, Qiuguo Zhu, Zhibin Li†

Science Robotics, Vol 5 (49), 2020

Featured by BBC, Wired, and New Scientist

Efficient Tactile Sensing-based Learning for Dual-arm Fine Pinch-Grasp Skills

Efficient Tactile Sensing-based Learning from Limited Real-world Demonstrations for Dual-arm Fine Pinch-Grasp Skills

Xiaofeng Mao, Yucheng Xu, Ruoshi Wen, Mohammadreza Kasaei, Wanming Yu, Efi Psomopoulou, Nathan F. Lepora, Zhibin Li

IEEE/RSJ IROS, 2024, pp. 5112-5119

Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation of Slender Cylindrical Objects
Learning Adaptive Grasping From Human Demonstrations

Learning Adaptive Grasping From Human Demonstrations

Shuaijun Wang, Wenbin Hu, Lining Sun, Xin Wang, Zhibin Li

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2022

Neural ODE-based Imitation Learning (NODE-IL): Data-Efficient Imitation Learning for Long-Horizon Multi-Skill Robot Manipulation

Neural ODE-based Imitation Learning (NODE-IL): Data-Efficient Imitation Learning for Long-Horizon Multi-Skill Robot Manipulation

Zhao, S., Xu, Y., Kasaei, M., Khadem, M., & Li, Z.

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024, pp. 8524-8530

DexSkills: Skill Segmentation Using Haptic Data for Learning Autonomous Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation Tasks

DexSkills: Skill Segmentation Using Haptic Data for Learning Autonomous Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation Tasks

Mao, X., Giudici, G., Coppola, C., Althoefer, K., Farkhatdinov, I., Li, Z., & Jamone, L.

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024, pp. 5104-5111

Intrinsic Language-Guided Exploration for Complex Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation Tasks

Intrinsic Language-Guided Exploration for Complex Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation Tasks

Triantafyllidis, E., Christianos, F., & Li, Z.

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024, pp. 7493-7500

Modular Neural Network Policies for Learning In-Flight Object Catching with a Robot Hand-Arm System

Modular Neural Network Policies for Learning In-Flight Object Catching with a Robot Hand-Arm System

Hu, W., Acero, F., Triantafyllidis, E., Liu, Z., & Li, Z.

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023, pp. 944-951

Run and Catch: Dynamic Object-Catching of Quadrupedal Robots

Run and Catch: Dynamic Object-Catching of Quadrupedal Robots

You, Y., Liu, T., Liang, X., Xu, Z., Zhou, M., Li, Z., & Zhang, S.

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023, pp. 743-750

TiV-ODE: A Neural ODE-based Approach for Controllable Video Generation from Text-Image Pairs

TiV-ODE: A Neural ODE-based Approach for Controllable Video Generation from Text-Image Pairs

Xu, Y., Li, N., Goel, A., Yao, Z., Guo, Z., Kasaei, H., ... Li, Z.

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024, pp. 14645–14652

Language-guided Robot Grasping: CLIP-based Referring Grasp Synthesis in Clutter

Language-guided Robot Grasping: CLIP-based Referring Grasp Synthesis in Clutter

Tziafas, G., Xu, Y., Goel, A., Kasaei, M., Li, Z., & Kasaei, H.

Proceedings of The 7th Conference on Robot Learning, Vol. 229, 2023, pp. 1450-1466

Instance-wise Grasp Synthesis for Robotic Grasping

Instance-wise Grasp Synthesis for Robotic Grasping

Xu, Y., Kasaei, M., Kasaei, H., & Li, Z.

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023, pp. 1744-1750

Data-efficient Non-parametric Modelling and Control of an Extensible Soft Manipulator

Data-efficient Non-parametric Modelling and Control of an Extensible Soft Manipulator

Kasaei, M., Babarahmati, K. K., Li, Z., & Khadem, M.

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023, pp. 2641-2647

A Data-efficient Neural ODE Framework for Optimal Control of Soft Manipulators

A Data-efficient Neural ODE Framework for Optimal Control of Soft Manipulators

Kasaei, M., Babarahmati, K. K., Li, Z., & Khadem, M.

Proceedings of The 7th Conference on Robot Learning, Vol. 229, 2023, pp. 2700-2713

Learning Pregrasp Manipulation of Objects from Ungraspable Poses

Learning Pregrasp Manipulation of Objects from Ungraspable Poses

Sun, Z., Yuan, K., Hu, W., Yang, C., & Li, Z.

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020, pp. 9917-9923

Feasibility Retargeting for Multi-contact Teleoperation and Physical Interaction

Feasibility Retargeting for Multi-contact Teleoperation and Physical Interaction

Rouxel, Q., Wen, R., Li, Z., Tiseo, C., Mouret, J.-B., & Ivaldi, S.

2023

Robust High-Transparency Haptic Exploration for Dexterous Telemanipulation

Robust High-Transparency Haptic Exploration for Dexterous Telemanipulation

Babarahmati, K. K., Tiseo, C., Rouxel, Q., Li, Z., & Mistry, M.

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021, pp. 10146-10152

Haptic Bimanual System for Teleoperation of Time-Delayed Tasks

Haptic Bimanual System for Teleoperation of Time-Delayed Tasks

Sena, A., Rouxel, Q., Ivanova, E., Burdet, E., & Li, Z.

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2021, pp. 1234-1239

Distilling Reinforcement Learning Policies for Interpretable Robot Locomotion: Gradient Boosting Machines and Symbolic Regression

Distilling Reinforcement Learning Policies for Interpretable Robot Locomotion: Gradient Boosting Machines and Symbolic Regression

Acero, F., & Li, Z.

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024, pp. 6840-6847

Agile and Versatile Robot Locomotion via Kernel-based Residual Learning

Agile and Versatile Robot Locomotion via Kernel-based Residual Learning

Carroll, M., Liu, Z., Kasaei, M., & Li, Z.

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023, pp. 5148-5154

Real-time Digital Double Framework to Predict Collapsible Terrains for Legged Robots

Real-time Digital Double Framework to Predict Collapsible Terrains for Legged Robots

Haddeler, G., Palanivelu, H. P., Ng, Y. C., Colonnier, F., Adiwahono, A. H., Li, Z., ... Chuah, M. Y.

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022, pp. 10387-10394

Accessibility-Based Clustering for Efficient Learning of Locomotion Skills

Accessibility-Based Clustering for Efficient Learning of Locomotion Skills

Zhang, C., Yu, W., & Li, Z.

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022, pp. 1600-1606

Learning Motor Skills of Reactive Reaching and Grasping of Objects

Learning Motor Skills of Reactive Reaching and Grasping of Objects

Hu, W., Yang, C., Yuan, K., & Li, Z.

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2021, pp. 452-457

Learning Autonomous Mobility Using Real Demonstration Data

Learning Autonomous Mobility Using Real Demonstration Data

Gu, J., & Li, Z.

20th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 2021, pp. 428-434

Optimisation of body-ground contact for augmenting the whole-body loco-manipulation of quadruped robots

Optimisation of body-ground contact for augmenting the whole-body loco-manipulation of quadruped robots

Wolfslag, W. J., McGreavy, C., Xin, G., Tiseo, C., Vijayakumar, S., & Li, Z.

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021, pp. 3694-3701

Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Motor Control in Changing Robot Dynamics and Environments
Variable Autonomy of Whole-body Control for Inspection and Intervention in Industrial Environments using Legged Robots

Variable Autonomy of Whole-body Control for Inspection and Intervention in Industrial Environments using Legged Robots

Xin, G., Tiseo, C., Wolfslag, W., Smith, J., Cebe, O., Li, Z., ... Mistry, M.

IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2020, pp. 1415-1420