NEWS    MERL at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024

Date released: June 3, 2024

  •  NEWS    MERL at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024
  • Date:

    May 13, 2024 - May 17, 2024

  • Where:

    Yokohama, Japan

  • Description:

    MERL made significant contributions to both the organization and the technical program of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024, which was held in Yokohama, Japan from May 13th to May 17th.

    MERL was a Bronze sponsor of the conference, and exhibited a live robotic demonstration, which attracted a large audience. The demonstration showcased an Autonomous Robotic Assembly technology executed on MELCO's Assista robot arm and was the collaborative effort of the Optimization and Robotics Team together with the Advanced Technology department at Mitsubishi Electric.

    MERL researchers from the Optimization and Robotics, Speech & Audio, and Control for Autonomy teams also presented 8 papers and 2 invited talks covering topics on robotic assembly, applications of LLMs to robotics, human robot interaction, safe and robust path planning for autonomous drones, transfer learning, perception and tactile sensing.

  • MERL Contacts:
  • Research Areas:

    Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Optimization, Robotics, Speech & Audio

    •  Liang, B., Ota, K., Tomizuka, M., Jha, D.K., "Robust In-Hand Manipulation with Extrinsic Contacts", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), DOI: 10.1109/​ICRA57147.2024.10611664, May 2024, pp. 6544-6550.
      BibTeX TR2024-061 PDF Video
      • @inproceedings{Liang2024may,
      • author = {Liang, Boyuan and Ota, Kei and Tomizuka, Masayoshi and Jha, Devesh K.}},
      • title = {Robust In-Hand Manipulation with Extrinsic Contacts},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      • year = 2024,
      • pages = {6544--6550},
      • month = may,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611664},
      • isbn = {979-8-3503-8457-4},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-061}
      • }
    •  Sinhmar, H., Greiff, M., Di Cairano, S., ,, "Practical and Safe Navigation Function Based Motion Planning of UAVs", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), DOI: 10.1109/​ICRA57147.2024.10611255, May 2024.
      BibTeX TR2024-055 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Sinhmar2024may,
      • author = {Sinhmar, Himani and Greiff, Marcus and Di Cairano, Stefano and }},
      • title = {Practical and Safe Navigation Function Based Motion Planning of UAVs},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      • year = 2024,
      • month = may,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611255},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-055}
      • }
    •  Schperberg, A., Tanaka, Y., Mowlavi, S., Xu, F., Balaji, B., Hong, D., "OptiState: State Estimation of Legged Robots using Gated Networks with Transformer-based Vision and Kalman Filtering", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2024.
      BibTeX TR2024-054 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Schperberg2024may,
      • author = {{Schperberg, Alexander and Tanaka, Yusuke and Mowlavi, Saviz and Xu, Feng and Balaji, Bharathan and Hong, Dennis}},
      • title = {OptiState: State Estimation of Legged Robots using Gated Networks with Transformer-based Vision and Kalman Filtering},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      • year = 2024,
      • month = may,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-054}
      • }
    •  Ota, K., Jha, D.K., Jatavallabhula, K., Kanezaki, A., Tenenbaum, J.B., "Tactile Estimation of Extrinsic Contact Patch for Stable Placement", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), DOI: 10.1109/​ICRA57147.2024.10611504}, May 2024, pp. 13876-13882.
      BibTeX TR2024-053 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Ota2024may2,
      • author = {Ota, Kei and Jha, Devesh K. and Jatavallabhula, Krishna and Kanezaki, Asako and Tenenbaum, Joshua B.}},
      • title = {Tactile Estimation of Extrinsic Contact Patch for Stable Placement},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      • year = 2024,
      • pages = {13876--13882},
      • month = may,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611504}},
      • isbn = {979-8-3503-8457-4},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-053}
      • }
    •  Sun, L., Jha, D.K., Hori, C., Jain, S., Corcodel, R., Zhu, X., Tomizuka, M., Romeres, D., "Interactive Planning Using Large Language Models for Partially Observable Robotic Tasks", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), DOI: 10.1109/​ICRA57147.2024.10610981, May 2024, pp. 14054-14061.
      BibTeX TR2024-052 PDF Video
      • @inproceedings{Sun2024may,
      • author = {Sun, Lingfeng and Jha, Devesh K. and Hori, Chiori and Jain, Siddarth and Corcodel, Radu and Zhu, Xinghao and Tomizuka, Masayoshi and Romeres, Diego}},
      • title = {Interactive Planning Using Large Language Models for Partially Observable Robotic Tasks},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      • year = 2024,
      • pages = {14054--14061},
      • month = may,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610981},
      • isbn = {979-8-3503-8457-4},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-052}
      • }
    •  Lin, H., Corcodel, R., Zhao, D., "Generalize by Touching: Tactile Ensemble Skill Transfer for Robotic Furniture Assembly", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2024.
      BibTeX TR2024-051 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Lin2024may2,
      • author = {Lin, Haohong and Corcodel, Radu and Zhao, Ding}},
      • title = {Generalize by Touching: Tactile Ensemble Skill Transfer for Robotic Furniture Assembly},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      • year = 2024,
      • month = may,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-051}
      • }
    •  Zhu, X., Jha, D.K., Romeres, D., Sun, L., Tomizuka, M., Cherian, A., "Multi-level Reasoning for Robotic Assembly: From Sequence Inference to Contact Selection", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), March 2024, pp. 816-823.
      BibTeX TR2024-033 PDF Video
      • @inproceedings{Zhu2024mar,
      • author = {Zhu, Xinghao and Jha, Devesh K. and Romeres, Diego and Sun, Lingfeng and Tomizuka, Masayoshi and Cherian, Anoop},
      • title = {Multi-level Reasoning for Robotic Assembly: From Sequence Inference to Contact Selection},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      • year = 2024,
      • pages = {816--823},
      • month = mar,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-033}
      • }