Research
I'm broadly interested in robot learning, manipulation, and perception. Here are some of my research papers. Please feel free to reach out!
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Bagging by Learning to Singulate Layers Using Interactive Perception
Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Baiyu Shi, Roy Lin, Daniel Seita, Ayah Ahmad, Richard Cheng, Thomas Kollar, David Held, Ken Goldberg
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An algorithm for grasping a single layer of plastic bags and fabrics using purely visual feedback, and a much-improved bagging algorithm.
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AutoBag: Learning to Open Plastic Bags and Insert Objects
Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Baiyu Shi, Daniel Seita, Richard Cheng, Thomas Kollar, Ken Goldberg
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023
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A semantic representation of plastic bags and an algorithm for a bimanual robot to open a plastic bag from unstructured configurations, to insert object(s) into it, and then to lift the bag.
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Fleet-DAgger: Interactive Robot Fleet Learning with Scalable Human Supervision
Ryan Hoque, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Satvik Sharma, Karthik Dharmarajan, Brijen Thananjeyan, Pieter Abbeel, Ken Goldberg
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2022   (Oral Presentation, 6.5%)
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A formalism, several new algorithms, and a benchmark for interactive fleet learning: interactive learning with multiple robots and multiple humans.
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Efficiently Learning Single-Arm Fling Motions to Smooth Garments
Lawrence Yunliang Chen*, Huang Huang*, Ellen Novoseller, Daniel Seita, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Michael Laskey, Richard Cheng, Thomas Kollar, Ken Goldberg
The International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), 2022
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Given a new garment, quickly learn a fling action that can effectively smooth the garment with only one robot arm.
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Optimal Shelf Arrangement to Minimize Robot Retrieval Time
Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Huang Huang, Michael Danielczuk, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Ken Goldberg
IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2022   (Best Student Paper Finalist)
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Optimize the arrangement of objects on a shelf to make them easier to retrieve and search.
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Real2Sim2Real: Self-Supervised Learning of Physical Single-Step Dynamic Actions for Planar Robot Casting
Vincent Lim*, Huang Huang*, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Jonathan Wang, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Daniel Seita, Michael Laskey, Ken Goldberg
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022
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Using Real2Sim2Real to learn to manipulate a free-end cable so that the endpoint can accurately reach desired target positions on a planar surface.
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A Multi-Chamber Smart Suction Cup for Adaptive Gripping and Haptic Exploration
Tae Myung Huh, Kate Sanders, Michael Danielczuk, Monica Li, Yunliang Chen, Ken Goldberg, Hannah S. Stuart
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021
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A new suction cup design that contains multiple chambers for gripping and haptic exploration.
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Understanding and Mitigating Annotation Bias in Facial Expression Recognition
Yunliang Chen, Jungseock Joo
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021
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Analysis of annotation bias for many large public facial expression recognition datasets.
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