[Nov. 2024] I have passed my PhD preliminary exam and officially become a PhD candidate
[Sep. 2024] One paper accepted by IEEE T-RO
Research
My research aims to develop robots capable of performing everyday manipulation tasks with human-level capabilities. Towards this goal, my current focus is on differentiable optimization for policies, generative models in robotics, and tactile sensing.
LeTac-MPC: Learning Model Predictive Control for Tactile-reactive Grasping Zhengtong Xu, Yu She
IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2024
@article{xu2024letac,
author={Xu, Zhengtong and She, Yu},
journal={IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
title={{LeTac-MPC}: Learning Model Predictive Control for Tactile-Reactive Grasping},
year={2024},
volume={40},
number={},
pages={4376-4395},
doi={10.1109/TRO.2024.3463470}
}
A generalizable end-to-end tactile-reactive grasping controller with differentiable MPC, combining learning and model-based approaches.
UniT: Unified Tactile Representation for Robot Learning Zhengtong Xu, Raghava Uppuluri, Xinwei Zhang, Cael Fitch, Philip Glen Crandall, Wan Shou, Dongyi Wang, Yu She
Under Review, 2024
@article{xu2024unit,
title={UniT: Unified Tactile Representation for Robot Learning},
author={Xu, Zhengtong and Uppuluri, Raghava and Zhang, Xinwei and Fitch, Cael and Crandall, Philip Glen and Shou, Wan and Wang, Dongyi and She, Yu},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.06481},
year={2024}
}
VILP integrates the video generation model into policies, enabling the representation of multi-modal action distributions while reducing reliance on extensive high-quality robot action data.
LeTO: Learning Constrained Visuomotor Policy with Differentiable Trajectory Optimization Zhengtong Xu, Yu She
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), 2024
@article{athar2023vistac,
title={Vistac towards a unified multi-modal sensing finger for robotic manipulation},
author={Athar, Sheeraz and Patel, Gaurav and Xu, Zhengtong and Qiu, Qiang and She, Yu},
journal={IEEE Sensors Journal},
year={2023},
publisher={IEEE}
}