Research
I am interested in robotics, machine learning and reinforcement learning.
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Visual whole-body control for legged loco-manipulation
Minghuan Liu*, Zixuan Chen*, Xuxin Cheng, Yandong Ji, Rizhao Qiu, Ruihan Yang, Xiaolong Wang
CoRL, 2024
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Expressive Whole-Body Control for Humanoid Robots
Xuxin Cheng*, Yandong Ji*, Junming Chen, Ruihan Yang, Ge Yang, Xiaolong Wang
RSS, 2024
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UC San Diego Today
Humanoid robot tracking root movement and expression goal with whole-body controller.
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Learning Force Control for Legged Manipulation
Tifanny Portela, Gabriel B. Margolis, Yandong Ji, Pulkit Agrawal
ICRA, 2024
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Learning to control the force applied by a legged robot's arm for compliant and forceful manipulation.
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Learning to See Physical Properties with Active Sensing Motor Policies
Gabriel B. Margolis, Xiang Fu, Yandong Ji, Pulkit Agrawal
CoRL, 2023
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Learn to see how terrains feel by collecting self-supervised data with information-maximizing motor skills.
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DribbleBot: Dynamic Legged Manipulation in the Wild
Yandong Ji*, Gabriel B. Margolis* , Pulkit Agrawal
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023
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Bot vs The New England Revolution
Dynamic object manipulation with legs using onboard computation and sensing.
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Hierarchical reinforcement learning for precise soccer shooting skills using a quadrupedal robot
Yandong Ji*,
Zhongyu Li*,
Yinan Sun,
Xue Bin Peng,
Sergey Levine,
Glen Berseth,
Koushil Sreenath
IROS, 2022, (Best RoboCup Paper Award Finalist)
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TechXplore
Honing soccer shooting skills in the real world
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Reinforcement Learning for Collaborative Quadrupedal Manipulation of a Payload over Challenging Terrain
Yandong Ji,
Bike Zhang,
Koushil Sreenath
IEEE CASE, 2021
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A decentralized payload manipulation system in simulation
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Evaluation of lower leg muscle activities during human walking assisted by an ankle exoskeleton
Wei Wang, Jianyu Chen,
Yandong Ji,
Wei Jin,
Jingtai Liu,
Juanjuan Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2020
Systematic evaluation of exoskeleton assistance performance based on EMG metrics
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CoRL, RA-L, Soft Robotics, IROS, ICRA, EMNLP
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