8 Papers + 1 Workshop at ICRA!

Congratulations to all the students who have managed to get EIGHT ARClab papers and 1 Workshop accepted at ICRA, the largest and top robotics conference in the world! The papers span a large range of algorithmic and experimental contributions, and are listed below:
Bimanual Regrasping for Suture Needles using Reinforcement Learning for Rapid Motion Planning Z.Y. Chiu, F. Richter, E.K. Funk, R.K. Orosco, M.C. Yip
IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (Accepted). Xi'an, China (2021). [arxiv][vid]
Real-to-Sim Registration of Deformable Soft-Tissue with Position-Based Dynamics for Surgical Robot Autonomy
F. Liu, Z. Li, Y. Han, J. Lu, F. Richter, M.C. Yip
IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (Accepted). Xi'an, China (2021). [arxiv][vid]
Model-Predictive Control of Blood Suction for Surgical Hemostasis using Differentiable Fluid Simulations
J. Huang*, F. Liu*, F. Richter, M.C. Yip
IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (Accepted). Xi'an, China (2021). [arxiv][vid]
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SuPer Deep: A Surgical Perception Framework for Robotic Tissue Manipulation using Deep Learning for Feature Extraction
J. Lu, A. Jayakumari, F. Richter, Y. Li, M.C. Yip
IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (Accepted). Xi'an, China (2021). [website][arxiv][vid]
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​Data-driven Actuator Selection for Artificial Muscle-Powered Robots
T. Henderson, Y. Zhi, A. Liu, M.C. Yip
IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (Accepted). Xi'an, China (2021). [arxiv][website]
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Optimal Multi-Manipulator Arm Placement for Maximal Dexterity during Robotics Surgery
J. Di, M. Xu, N. Das, M.C. Yip
IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (Accepted). Xi'an, China (2021). [arxiv][vid]
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MPC-MPNet: Model-Predictive Motion Planning Networks for Fast, Near-Optimal Planning under Kinodynamic Constraints
L. Li, Y.L. Miao, A.H. Qureshi, M.C. Yip
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (Accepted), 2020. [website][arxiv]
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Autonomous Robotic Suction to Clear the Surgical Field for Hemostasis using Image-based Blood Flow Detection
F. Richter, S. Shen, F. Liu, J. Huang, E.K. Funk, R.K. Orosco, M.C. Yip
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 1383-1390. [arxiv][video]
And one workshop:
MLMP2021: Machine Learning for Motion Planning Workshop at ICRA 2021
https://sites.google.com/utexas.edu/mlmp-icra2021