February 17, 2025
Robotics researchers in the Department of Computer Science had nine papers accepted across two robotics conferences to be held in the first half of 2025.
The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is will be held in Australia in March, while the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) will take place in Atlanta in May. Both are among the top conferences in the field of robotics.
The papers came from the research groups of Distinguished Professor Ron Alterovitz, Kenan Professor James Anderson, Assistant Professor Mingyu Ding, Associate Professor Daniel Szafir, and Assistant Professor Huaxiu Yao. Ding was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley prior to beginning his UNC-Chapel Hill appointment in January.
One of the papers features work undertaken by lead author and computer science doctoral student Bryce Ikeda during a summer internship with the Office of Naval Research.
The full papers will be presented at the conferences later this spring, but their titles and authors can be found below.
HRI Papers
MARCER: Multimodal Augmented Reality for Composing and Executing Robot Tasks
Bryce Ikeda, Maitrey Gramopadhye, LillyAnn Nekervis, Daniel Szafir
Overlapping Social Navigation Principles: A Framework for Social Robot Navigation
Bryce Ikeda, Mark Higger, Christina Soyoung Song, J. Gregory Trafton
ICRA Papers
A System for Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection Featuring Concentric Push-Pull Manipulators
Peter Connor, Carter Hatch, Khoa Dang, Tony Qin, Ron Alterovitz, Caleb Rucker, Robert J. Webster III
Embodiment-agnostic Action Planning via Object-Part Scene Flow
Weiliang Tang, Jia-Hui Pan, Wei Zhan, Jianshu Zhou, Huaxiu Yao, Yun-Hui Liu, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Mingyu Ding, and Chi-Wing Fu
On the Necessity of Real-Time Principles in GPU-Driven Autonomous Robots
Syed W. Ali, Angelos Angelopoulos, Denver Massey, Sarah Haddix, Alexander Georgiev, Joseph Goh, Rohan Wagle, Prakash Sarathy, James H. Anderson, Ron Alterovitz
Physics-Aware Robotic Palletization with Online Masking Inference
Tianqi Zhang, Zheng Wu, Yuxin Chen, Yixiao Wang, Boyuan Liang, Scott Moura, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Mingyu Ding, Wei Zhan
Resolution Optimal Motion Planning for Medical Needle Steering from Airway Walls in the Lung
Janine Hoelscher, Inbar Fried, Oren Salzman, Ron Alterovitz
The Experiment Orchestration System (EOS): Comprehensive Foundation for Laboratory Automation
Angelos Angelopoulos, Cem Baykal, Jade Kandel, Matthew Verber, James Cahoon, Ron Alterovitz
TrajSSL: Trajectory-Enhanced Semi-Supervised 3D Object Detection
Philip Jacobson, Yichen Xie, Mingyu Ding, Chenfeng Xu, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Wei Zhan, and Ming C. Wu