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Refereed Journal Papers

A soft magnetic skin for self-decoupled and super-resolved tactile sensing

Youcan Yan, Zhe Hu, Zhengbao Yang, Wenzhen Yuan, Chaoyang Song, Jia Pan*, and Yajing Shen*

Science Robotics, 6(51), 2021 PDF Wired Magazine report

Optimization-based framework for excavation trajectory generation

Yajue Yang, Pinxin Long, Xibin Song, Jia Pan*, and Liangjun Zhang

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 6(2):1479 – 1486, 2021 PDF

Distributed multi-robot collision avoidance via deep reinforcement learning for navigation in complex scenarios

Tingxiang Fan, Pinxin Long, Wenxi Liu, Jia Pan*

International Journal of Robotics Research, 39(7):856–892, 2020. PDF Project

A two-stage reinforcement learning approach for multi-uav collision avoidance under imperfect sensing

Dawei Wang, Tingxiang Fan, and Jia Pan*

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5(2):3098–3105, 2020. PDF

Safe Navigation with Human Instructions in Complex Scenes

Zhe Hu, Jia Pan*, Tingxiang Fan, Ruigang Yang, Dinesh Manocha

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 4(2):753–760, 2019 Project PDF

Cloth Manipulation Using Random-Forest-based Imitation Learning Framework

Biao Jia, Zherong Pan, Zhe Hu, Jia Pan*, Dinesh Manocha

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 4(2):2086–2093,

2019. Project PDF

Getting Robots Unfrozen and Unlost in Dense Pedestrian Crowds

Tingxiang Fan, Xinjing Cheng, Jia Pan*, Pinxin Long, Wenxi Liu, Ruigang Yang and Dinesh Manocha

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 4(2):1178–1185, 2019. Project PDF

3D deformable object manipulation using fast online Gaussian process regression

Zhe Hu, Peigen Sun, Jia Pan*

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(2), 979 - 986, 2018 PDF Project

Unified GPU-Parallelizable Robot Forward Dynamics Computation using Band-Sparsity

Yajue Yang, Yuanqing Wu, Jia Pan*

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 3, No. 1, 203-209, 2018 PDF

Deep-Learned Collision Avoidance Policy for Distributed Multiagent Navigation

Pinxin Long, Wenxi Liu, Jia Pan*

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 2, No.2, pp. 656 - 663, 2017 PDF Project

Parallel Motion Planning using Poisson-Disk Sampling

Chonhyon Park, Jia Pan, Dinesh Manocha

IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 359 - 371, 2017 PDF Project

Fast Probabilistic Collision Checking for Sample-based Motion Planning using Locality-Sensitive Hashing

Jia Pan, Dinesh Manocha

International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 35, No. 12, pp. 1477 - 1496, 2016 PDF

Planning curvature and torsion constrained ribbons in 3D with application to intracavitary and brachytherapy

Sachin Patil, Jia Pan, Pieter Abbeel, Ken Goldberg

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 1332-1345, 2015 PDF

Motion planning with sequential convex optimization and convex collision checking

John Schulman, Yan Duan, Jonanthan Ho, Alex Lee, Ibrahim Awwal, Henry Bradlow, Jia Pan, Sachin Patil, Ken Goldberg, Pieter Abbeel

International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 33, No. 9, pp. 1251-1270, 2014 PDF

Efficient penetration depth approximation using active learning

Jia Pan, Xinyu Zhang, Dinesh Manocha

ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 191:1-191:12, 2013 PDF Project

Collision-free and smooth trajectory computation in cluttered environments

Jia Pan, Liangjun Zhang, Dinesh Manocha

International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 31, No. 10, pp. 1155-1175, 2012 PDF

GPU-based parallel collision detection for fast motion planning

Jia Pan, Dinesh Manocha

International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 187-200, 2011 PDF

Refereed Conference Papers

Crowd-driven mapping, localization and planning

Tingxiang Fan, Dawei Wang, Wenxi Liu, and Jia Pan*

International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), 2020

An actor-critic approach for legible robot motion planner

Xuan Zhao, Tingxiang Fan, Dawei Wang, Zhe Hu, Tao Han, and Jia Pan

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020

Learning resilient behaviors for navigation under uncertainty environments

Tingxiang Fan, Pinxin Long, Wenxi Liu, Jia Pan, Ruigang Yang, and Dinesh Manocha

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020

Context-aware spatio-recurrent curvilinear structure segmentation

Feigege Wang, Yue Gu, Wenxi Liu, Yuanlong Yu, Shengfeng He, and Jia Pan

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019

Visualizing the invisible: Occluded vehicle segmentation and recovery

Xiaosheng Yan, Yuanlong Yu, Feigege Wang, Wenxi Liu, Shengfeng He, and Jia Pan

IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019

Compact reachability map for excavator motion planning

Yajue Yang, Liangjun Zhang, Xinjing Cheng, Jia Pan, and Ruigang Yang

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019

Towards optimally decentralized multi-robot collision avoidance via deep reinforcement learning

Pinxin Long, Tingxiang Fan, Xinyi Liao, Wenxi Liu, Hao Zhang, Jia Pan

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018 Project

Manipulating highly deformable materials using a visual feedback dictionary

Biao Jia, Zhe Hu, Jia Pan, Dinesh Manocha

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018 Project

DoraPicker: An Autonomous Picking System for General Objects

Hao Zhang, Pinxin Long, Dandan Zhou, Zhongfeng Qian, Zheng Wang, Weiwei Wan, Dinesh Manocha, Chonhyon Park, Tommy Hu, Chao Cao, Yibo Chen, Marco Chow, Jia Pan

IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2016 PDF

Leveraging appearance priors in non-rigid registration, with applications to manipulation of deformable objects

Sandy H. Huang Jia Pan, George Mulcaire, Pieter Abbeel

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015 PDF

Real-time collision detection and distance computation on point cloud sensor data

Jia Pan, Ioan Sucan, Sachin Chitta, Dinesh Manocha

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 3593-3599, 2013 PDF

Real-time optimization-based planning in dynamic environments using GPUs

Chonhyon Park, Jia Pan, Dinesh Manocha

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 4090-4097, 2013 PDF Project

FCL: a general purpose library for collision and proximity queries

Jia Pan, Sachin Chitta, Dinesh Manocha

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 3859-3866, 2012 PDF

Bi-level locality sensitive hashing for k-nearest neighbor computation

Jia Pan, Dinesh Manocha

IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp. 378-389, 2012 PDF

Probabilistic collision detection between noisy point clouds using robust classification

Jia Pan, Sachin Chitta, Dinesh Manocha

International Symposium on Robotics Research, 2011 PDF

g-Planner: real-time motion planning and global navigation using GPUs

Jia Pan, Christian Lauterbach, Dinesh Manocha

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2010 PDF