The realm of textiles spans clothing, households, healthcare, sports, and industrial
applications. The deformable nature of these objects poses unique challenges that prior …

Modeling and manipulating elasto-plastic objects are essential capabilities for robots to
perform complex industrial and household interaction tasks (eg, stuffing dumplings, rolling …

Path and manipulation planning has been gaining popularity within the robotics community
all the time due to its potential applications in many economically important applications. In …

Understanding the global dynamics of a robot controller, such as identifying attractors and
their regions of attraction (RoA), is important for safe deployment and synthesizing more …

This paper proposes an integration of surrogate modeling and topology to significantly
reduce the amount of data required to describe the underlying global dynamics of robot …

Understanding of deformable object manipulations such as textiles is a challenge due to the
complexity and high dimensionality of the problem. Particularly, the lack of a generic …

Imitation Learning (IL) is a promising paradigm for learning dynamic manipulation of
deformable objects since it does not depend on difficult-to-create accurate simulations of …

We study the problem of clothing item representation and build upon our recent work to
perform a comparative study of the most commonly used representations of clothing items …

Robotic manipulation of deformable objects has been a major focus in recent research. As
these objects are ubiquitously encountered in settings like logistics, healthcare, and …

Computer experiments have emerged as a powerful approach for studying real-world
systems through the utilization of complex mathematical models. These experiments have …