Publications

Autonomous Robotic Manipulation

  • Huitan Mao and Jing Xiao, "Reducing Uncertainty in Pose Estimation under Complex Contacts via Force Forecast", to appear at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020.

  • Huitan Mao and Jing Xiao, "Real-time Conflict Resolution of Task-constrained Manipulator Motion in Unforeseen Dynamic Environments", IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO), 2019. [LINK] [VIDEO]

  • Sean McGovern, Huitan Mao and Jing Xiao, "Learning to Estimate Centers of Mass of Arbitrary Objects", accepted by IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Macau, China, 2019. [VIDEO]

Continuum Manipulation with Tactile Perception

  • Huitan Mao, Junius Santoso, Cagdas Onal, and Jing Xiao, "Sim-to-real Transferable Object Classification through Touch-based Continuum Manipulation", International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), Buenos Aires, Argentina, November, 2018. [PDF] [VIDEO]

  • Huitan Mao and Jing Xiao, "Object Shape Estimation through Touch-based Continuum Manipulation", International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), Puerto Varas, Chile, December, 2017. [PDF]

  • Huitan Mao, Mabel M. Zhang, Jing Xiao, and Kostas Daniilidis, "Shape-based Object Classification and Recognition through Continuum Manipulation", IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, September, 2017. [PDF] [VIDEO]

Continuum Manipulation with Visual Perception
  • Huitan Mao, Zhou Teng, and Jing Xiao, "Progressive Object Modeling with a Continuum Manipulator in Unknown Environments", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore, June, 2017. [PDF] [VIDEO]
Articulated Manipulation with Visual Perception
  • Zhou Teng, Huitan Mao, and Jing Xiao, "Automatic Object Modeling through Integrating Perception and Robotic Manipulation", International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), Tokyo, October, 2016. [PDF] [VIDEO]
Kinematic Control of Redundant Manipulators
  • Liqin Zhu, Huitan Mao, Xiang Luo, Jing Xiao,"Determining Null-space Motion to satisfy Both Task Constraints and Obstacle Avoidance", IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM), Fort Worth, Texas, August, 2016. [PDF] [VIDEO]
Robot Arm Teleoperation with Haptic Guidance (UNPUBLISHED)