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Texas Robotics at The University of Texas at Austin will be at ICRA 2025, contributing 29 accepted papers and participating in six workshops. From breakthrough work in human-centered robot learning to advances in manipulation and medical robotics, UT Austin researchers are leading key conversations in the field. Below is a full list of the papers and workshops featuring Texas Robotics faculty and students.

Monday, May 19, 2025

Workshops

Human-Centered Robot Learning in the Era of Big Data and Large Models
Time: 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Texas Robotics Participants: Yifeng Zhu, Yuke Zhu, Peter Stone

ICRA 2025 Doctoral Consortium
Time: 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Texas Robotics Participant: Yuke Zhu

Learning Meets Model-Based Methods for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Time: 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Texas Robotics Participant: Yifeng Zhu

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Accepted Papers

FLaRe: Achieving Masterful and Adaptive Robot Policies with Large-Scale Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning
Jiaheng Hu, Rose Hendrix, Ali Farhadi, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Roberto Martín-Martín, Peter Stone, Kuo-Hao Zeng, Kiana Ehsani

Single-Fiber Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry (OFDR) Shape Sensing of Continuum Manipulators with Planar Bending
Mobina Tavangarifard, Wendy Rodriguez Ovalle, Farshid Alambeigi

Quantitative Evaluation of Curved BioPrinted Constructs of an in Situ Robotic System Towards Treatment of Volumetric Muscle Loss
Omid Rezayof, Xinyuan Huang, Meenakshi Kamaraj, John Calif, Johnson V. Terasaki, Farshid Alambeigi

ReMEmbR: Building and Reasoning Over Long-Horizon Spatio-Temporal Memory for Robot Navigation
Abrar Anwar, Welsh John, John Bradford, Joydeep Biswas, Soha Pouya, Yan Chang

SPOT: SE(3) Pose Trajectory Diffusion for Object-Centric Manipulation
Cheng-Chun Hsu, Bowen Wen, Jie Xu, Yashraj Narang, Xiaolong Wang, Yuke Zhu, Joydeep Biswas, Stan Birchfield

Neural L1 Adaptive Control of Vehicle Lateral Dynamics
Pratik Mukherjee, Burak M. Gonultas, Oguzhan Goktug Poyrazoglu, Volkan Isler

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Accepted Papers

PRESTO: Fast Motion Planning Using Diffusion Models Based on Key-Configuration Environment Representation
Mingyo Seo, Yoonyoung Cho, Yoonchang Sung, Peter Stone, Yuke Zhu, Beomjoon Kim

Risk-Averse Model Predictive Control for Racing in Adverse Conditions
Thomas Lew, Marcus Greiff, Franck Djeumou, Makoto Suminaka, Michael Thompson, John Subosits

Learning Coordinated Bimanual Manipulation Policies Using State Diffusion and Inverse Dynamics Models
Haonan Chen, Jiaming Xu, Lily Sheng, Tianchen Ji, Shuijing Liu, Yunzhu Li, Katherine Driggs-Campbell

HARMONIC: Human-AI Robotic Team Member Operating with Natural Intelligence and Communication
Sanjay Oruganti, Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane, Jesse English, Michael Roberts, Christian Arndt, Sahithi Kamireddy, Mingyo Seo, Carlos Isaac Gonzalez Bolivar, Luis Sentis

X-MOBILITY: End-To-End Generalizable Navigation Via World Modeling
Wei Liu, Huihua Zhao, Chenran Li, Joydeep Biswas, Billy Okal, Pulkit Goyal, Yan Chang, Soha Pouya

RT-Affordance: Affordances Are Versatile Intermediate Representations for Robot Manipulation
Soroush Nasiriany, Sean Kirmani, Tianli Ding, Laura Smith, Yuke Zhu, Danny Driess, Dorsa Sadigh, Ted Xiao

Uncertainty-Guided Enhancement on Driving Perception System Via Foundation Models
Yunhao Yang, Yuxin Hu, Mao Ye, Zaiwei Zhang, Zhichao Lu, Yi Xu, Ufuk Topcu, Ben Snyder

TransformerMPC: Accelerating Model Predictive Control Via Transformers
Vrushabh Zinage, Ahmed Khalil, Efstathios Bakolas

Towards Evaluating the User Comfort and Experience of a Novel Steerable Drilling Robotic System in Pedicle Screw Fixation Procedures: A User Study
Susheela Sharma, Samuel Frigyes Racz, Sarah Go, Siddhartha Kapuria, Omid Rezayof, Jordan P. Amadio, Mohsen Khadem, José del R. Millán, Farshid Alambeigi

HOVER: Versatile Neural Whole-Body Controller for Humanoid Robots
Tairan He, Wenli Xiao, Toru Lin, Zhengyi Luo, Zhenjia Xu, Zhenyu Jiang, Jan Kautz, Changliu Liu, Guanya Shi, Xiaolong Wang, Linxi Fan, Yuke Zhu

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Accepted Papers

Reinforcement Learning within the Classical Robotics Stack: A Case Study in Robot Soccer
Adam Labiosa, Zhihan Wang, Siddhant Agarwal, William Cong, Geethika Hemkumar, Abhinav Narayan Harish, Benjamin Hong, Josh Kelle, Chen Li, Yuhao Li, Zisen Shao, Peter Stone, Josiah Hanna

Fully Integrated Sensor Suite for Delicate Manipulation
Siqi Shang, Mingyo Seo, Yuke Zhu, Lillian Chin

Large-Expansion Bi-Layer Auxetics Create Compliant Cellular Motion
Lillian Chin, Gregory Xie, Jeffrey Lipton, Daniela Rus

Decentralized Safe and Scalable Multi-Agent Control under Limited Actuation
Vrushabh Zinage, Abhishek Jha, Rohan Chandra, Efstathios Bakolas

DRAGON: A Dialogue-Based Robot for Assistive Navigation with Visual Language Grounding
Shuijing Liu, Aamir Hasan, Kaiwen Hong, Runxuan Wang, Peixin Chang, Zachary Mizrachi, Justin Lin, D. Livingston McPherson, Wendy Rogers, Katherine Driggs-Campbell

PRIME: Scaffolding Manipulation Tasks with Behavior Primitives for Data-Efficient Imitation Learning
Tian Gao, Soroush Nasiriany, Huihan Liu, Quantao Yang, Yuke Zhu

BUMBLE: Unifying Reasoning and Acting with Vision-Language Models for Building-Wide Mobile Manipulation
Rutav Shah, Albert Yu, Yifeng Zhu, Yuke Zhu, Roberto Martín-Martín

A Synergistic Framework for Learning Shape Estimation and Shape-Aware Whole-Body Control Policy for Continuum Robots
Mohammadreza Kasaei, Farshid Alambeigi, Mohsen Khadem

On the Benefits of Hysteresis in Tendon Driven Continuum Robots
David Hanley, Farshid Alambeigi, Mohsen Khadem

Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing for Discrete and Continuous Collision Detection on GPUs
Sizhe Sui, Luis Sentis, Andrew Bylard

Inferring Occluded Agent Behavior in Dynamic Games from Noise Corrupted Observations
Tianyu Qiu, David Fridovich-Keil

DexMimicGen: Automated Data Generation for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation Via Imitation Learning
Zhenyu Jiang, Yuqi Xie, Kevin Lin, Zhenjia Xu, Weikang Wan, Ajay Uday Mandlekar, Linxi Fan, Yuke Zhu

C-Uniform Trajectory Sampling for Fast Motion Planning
Oguzhan Goktug Poyrazoglu, Yukang Cao, Volkan Isler

Friday, May 23, 2025

Workshops

3rd Robot-Assisted Medical Imaging (ICRA-RAMI)
Time: 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Texas Robotics Participant: Farshid Alambeigi

Beyond Pick and Place: Unifying Learning-Based and Model-Based Approaches for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Time: 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Texas Robotics Participant: Ben Abbatematteo, Roberto Martín-Martín

Advances in Social Robot Navigation: Planning, HRI, and Beyond
Time: 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Texas Robotics Participant: Peter Stone