Publications - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Towards Off-road Autonomous Driving

Zhouchonghao Wu

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-55, June, 2025

Towards Efficient Multi-Agent and Temporal Credit Assignment in Reinforcement Learning

Wen-Tse Chen

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-56, June, 2025

Toward More Reliable Multimodal Systems: Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models

Zifu Wan

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-47, June, 2025

Communication Efficient and Differentially Private Optimization

Shuli Jiang

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-46, June, 2025

From Object Pushing to Self Pushing: Whole-Body Control for Ballbots

Xiaohan Liu

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-62, June, 2025

Beyond Screens: Tangible User Interfaces Impact Engagement with Emotion Regulation Activities for Preschool Children

Samantha Speer, Marion Haney, Michael Tasota, and Emily Hamner

Conference Paper, IDC '25: Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children, pp. 556-564, June, 2025

Identifying Prompted Artist Names from Generated Images

Grace Su

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-51, June, 2025

APEX-MR: Multi-Robot Asynchronous Planning and Execution for Cooperative Assembly

Philip Huang, Ruixuan Liu, Shobhit Aggarwal, Changliu Liu, and Jiaoyang Li

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (RSS) Robotics Science and Systems, June, 2025

Toward Interactive Navigation in Unknown Dynamic Environments

Guofei Chen

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-50, June, 2025

Online-CBGT-Net: A Neuromimetic Architecture for Online Prediction

Venkata Nagarjun Pudureddiyur Manivannan

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-49, June, 2025

Incrementally Learned Shared Autonomy and Intelligent Mode Switching for Assistive Teleoperation

Yiran Tao

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-43, May, 2025

MapEx: Indoor Structure Exploration with Probabilistic Information Gain from Global Map Predictions

Cherie Ho, Seungchan Kim, Brady Moon, Aditya Parandekar, Narek Harutyunyan, Chen Wang, Katia Sycara, Graeme Best, and Sebastian Scherer

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 2025

Dynamic Multi-Objective Ergodic Path Planning Using Decomposition Methods

Abigail Breitfeld and David Wettergreen

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 2025

Watch, Predict, Act: Robot Learning meets Web Videos

Homanga Bharadhwaj

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-42, May, 2025

Towards Dexterous Robotic Manipulation by Imitating Experts

Yulong Li

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-29, May, 2025

Learning to Generalize via Human Manipulation Priors

Mohan Kumar Srirama

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-77, May, 2025

Towards Robust Informative Path Planning for Spatiotemporal Environments

Srujan Deolasee

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-41, May, 2025

Learning to Generalize via Human Manipulation Priors

Mohan Kumar Srirama

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, May, 2025

Enhancing the Physical Capability of Aerial Robots: From Inspection to Manipulation

Guanqi He

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-31, May, 2025

Adaptive Pushing with a Balancing Mobile Manipulator

Cunxi Dai

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-25, May, 2025

Advancing 3D Semantic and Geometric Reasoning

Pujith Kachana

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-18, May, 2025

Robotic Manipulation and Dense Tracking for Complex and Deformable Object Dynamics

Yunchao Yao

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-40, May, 2025

Reconstructing Tree Skeletons in Agricultural Robotics: A Comparative Study of Single-View and Volumetric Methods

Xinyu Wang

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-06, May, 2025

Acoustic Neural 3D Reconstruction Under Pose Drift

Tianxiang Lin

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-14, May, 2025

Towards Pragmatic Time Series Intelligence

Mononito Goswami

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-28, May, 2025

Deep 3D Geometric Reasoning for Robot Manipulation

Benjamin Andrew Eisner

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-30, May, 2025

Reinforcement Learning Control of Shape Memory Alloy Based Soft Robotic Platform

Guo Ning (Andrew) Sue

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-16, May, 2025

SmokeSeer: 3D Gaussian Splatting for Smoke Removal and Scene Reconstruction

Neham Jain

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-34, May, 2025

Zero-Shot 3D Understanding and Task-Oriented Grasping via Grounding Symbolic Representations

Samuel Li

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-20, May, 2025

Localization and Mapping through Multi-Sensor Fusion for Pipe Inspection: From Theory To Deployment

Tina Tian

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-17, May, 2025

Towards Controllable Sampling and Diverse Score Distillation in Diffusion Models

Yanbo Xu

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-27, May, 2025

Toward Realistic Visual Content Creation: Generative AI for Human-Centric and Product-Centric Scene Synthesis

Jialu Gao

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-32, May, 2025

Towards Efficient and Accurate Neural Geometry and Appearance Representations

Silong Yong

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-36, May, 2025

Flexible Perception for High-Performance Robot Navigation

Cherie Ho

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-33, May, 2025

Generative 3D Garment Modeling with Sparse Visual Cues

Yuanhao Wang

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-39, May, 2025

Echoes of the Coliseum: Towards 3D Live streaming of Human-centric Events

Junkai Huang

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-24, May, 2025

Informative Path Planning Toward Autonomous Real-World Applications

Brady Moon

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-13, May, 2025

Rethinking the Safety Case for Risk-Aware Social Embodied Intelligence

Jay Patrikar

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-26, May, 2025

Stabilizing Reinforcement Learning in Differentiable Multiphysics Simulation

Eliot Xing

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-09, May, 2025

Learning Humanoid Control from Simulation to Real to Simulation

Tairan He

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-38, May, 2025

Enhancing Reinforcement Learning with Error-Prone Language Models

Muhan Lin

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-12, April, 2025

Learning Universal Humanoid Control

Zhengyi Luo

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-35, April, 2025

Unified Vision-Language Modeling

Alexander Swerdlow

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-23, April, 2025

Creating Tendon-Driven Soft Dexterous Robot Hands for the Real World

Dominik Bauer

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-22, April, 2025

RESCUE Rollers: A Platform for Collaborative, Multi-robot Exploration in Search and Rescue

Sidney Nimako-Boateng

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-21, April, 2025

Experience-Based Action Advising for Multi-Agent Teaming

Shuyang Shi

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-11, April, 2025

Towards Natural Language-Driven Shape Arrangement Synthesis with Semantically-Aware Geometric Constraint Systems

Vihaan Misra

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-19, April, 2025

Foundation Control Model for General Embodied Intelligence

Wenli Xiao

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-37, April, 2025

Simulated Encounters of the Third Kind: A Scenario-Based Approach to Designing Robotic Mobility Aids