[PDF][PDF] Backdooring multimodal learning

X Han, Y Wu, Q Zhang, Y Zhou, Y Xu… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2023 - tianweiz07.github.io
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which poison the training
set to alter the model prediction over samples with a specific trigger. While existing efforts …

Efficient automatic design of robots

D Matthews, A Spielberg, D Rus… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Robots are notoriously difficult to design because of complex interdependencies between
their physical structure, sensory and motor layouts, and behavior. Despite this, almost every …

Learning modular robot control policies

J Whitman, M Travers, H Choset - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modular robots can be rearranged into a new design, perhaps each day, to handle a wide
variety of tasks by forming a customized robot for each new task. However, reconfiguring just …

Softzoo: A soft robot co-design benchmark for locomotion in diverse environments

TH Wang, P Ma, AE Spielberg, Z Xian, H Zhang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
While significant research progress has been made in robot learning for control, unique
challenges arise when simultaneously co-optimizing morphology. Existing work has typically …

GLSO: grammar-guided latent space optimization for sample-efficient robot design automation

J Hu, J Whitman, H Choset - Conference on Robot Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Robots have been used in all sorts of automation, and yet the design of robots remains
mainly a manual task. We seek to provide design tools to automate the design of robots …

Papras: Plug-and-play robotic arm system

J Kim, DC Mathur, K Shin, S Taylor - arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.09655, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a novel robotic arm system, named PAPRAS (Plug-And-Play Robotic
Arm System). PAPRAS consists of a portable robotic arm (s), docking mount (s), and …

Metarobotics for Industry and Society: Vision, Technologies, and Opportunities

EG Kaigom - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Metarobotics aims to combine next generation wireless communication, multisense
immersion, and collective intelligence to provide a pervasive, itinerant, and noninvasive …

MorphVAE: Advancing Morphological Design of Voxel-Based Soft Robots with Variational Autoencoders

J Song, Y Yang, W Peng, W Zhou, F Wang… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Soft robot design is an intricate field with unique challenges due to its complex and vast
search space. In the past literature, evolutionary computation algorithms, including novel …

Task2Morph: Differentiable Task-Inspired Framework for Contact-Aware Robot Design

Y Cai, S Yang, M Li, X Chen, Y Mao… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimizing the morphologies and the controllers that adapt to various tasks is a critical issue
in the field of robot design, aka. embodied intelligence. Previous works typically model it as …

[PDF][PDF] Learning to Self-Reconfigure for Freeform Modular Robots via Altruism Proximal Policy Optimization.

L Wu, B Guo, Q Zhang, Z Sun, J Zhang, Z Yu - IJCAI, 2023 - ijcai.org
The advantages of modular robot systems stem from their ability to change between different
configurations, enabling them to adapt to complex and dynamic real-world environments …