Fots: A fast optical tactile simulator for sim2real learning of tactile-motor robot manipulation skills

Y Zhao, K Qian, B Duan, S Luo - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Simulation is a widely used tool in robotics to reduce hardware consumption and gather
large-scale data. Despite previous efforts to simulate optical tactile sensors, there remain …

Learning tactilemotor policy for robotic cable following via sim-to-real transfer

C Sun, B Duan, K Qian, Y Zhao - International Conference on Intelligent …, 2023 - Springer
Manipulating deformable liner objects, such as following a cable, is easy for human beings
but presents a significant challenge for robots. Moreover, learning strategies in real world can …

[PDF][PDF] Feature-level Sim2Real Regression of Tactile Images for Robot Manipulation

B Duan, K Qian, Y Zhao, D Zhang, S Luo - shanluo.github.io
When the robot tactile-motor policy trained in the simulator is transferred to the real world,
model’s performance has a great potential for degradation due to the domain gap between …

Visual–tactile learning of robotic cable-in-duct installation skills

B Duan, K Qian, A Liu, S Luo - Automation in Construction, 2025 - Elsevier
Cable-in-duct installation is one of the most challenging contact-rich interior finishing tasks
for construction robots. Such precise robotic cable manipulation skills are expected to be …

Reducing Sim-to-Real Domain Gaps of Visual Sensors for Learning Environment-constrained Visuomotor Policy

X Jing, K Qian, B Duan - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Simulation engines enable safe training of robotic skills, but domain gaps between simulated
and real sensors hinder deployment. However, existing pixel-level adaptation methods …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetic arthropod soft robot with triboelectric bionic antennae for obstacle identifying and avoidance

A Duan, Z Zhu, M Wang, X Han, K Dai, B Xiong… - Materials & Design, 2024 - Elsevier
Magnetic soft robots exhibit attractive advantages such as nontethered constraints and remote
control capabilities, with broad prospects in environmental exploration, minimally invasive …

Integrated multi-omics analysis for lung adenocarcinoma in Xuanwei, China

B Jiang, J Yang, R He, D Wang, Y Huang… - Aging (Albany …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Xuanwei lung cancer (XWLC) is well-known for its high incidence and mortality.
However, the molecular mechanism is still unclear. Methods: We performed a …

Model-based reparameterization policy gradient methods: theory and practical algorithms

S Zhang, B Liu, Z Wang, T Zhao - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
ReParameterization (RP) Policy Gradient Methods (PGMs) have been widely adopted for
continuous control tasks in robotics and computer graphics. However, recent studies have …

Single-Channel Radar Signal Separation Based on Instance Segmentation With Mask Optimization

B Yang, T Chen, Y Lei - … Transactions on Circuits and Systems II …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief focuses on solving the overlapping problem of multicomponent signals. A single-channel
radar signal separation algorithm based on visual separation with mask optimization …

A transparent water-based metamaterial broadband absorber with a tunable absorption band

B Yao, Q Zeng, J Duan, L Wei, J Kang, B Zhang - Physica Scripta, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In this study, a tunable and optically transparent water-based wideband metamaterial
absorber (MMA) is proposed and verified. By adjusting the thickness of the water layer, the …