The Reality and Robotics Lab, RLab, is directed by Professors Devin Balkcom, and Alberto Quattrini Li. We study topics at the intersection of computing and physical reality, including robotics, 3D fabrication, sensing, automation, and artificial intellegence. Funding sources include NSF, Google, Adobe, the MBR Center for Accelerated Research, and the Neukom Institute.
We are actively looking for motivated students to join our lab. If you are interested, please email one of the faculty leads.
Active projects include:
Concluded projects include:
(Under Review)
@article{zhao2024softrafts, author = "Zhao, Luyang and Jiang, Yitao and She, Chun-Yi and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Chen, Muhao and Balkcom, Devin", title = "SoftRafts: Floating Soft Modular Robots", journal = "Confidential", year = "2024", note = "(Under Review)" }
(Under Review)
@article{zhao2024softsnap, author = "Zhao, Luyang and Jiang, Yitao and She, Chun-Yi and Chen, Muhao and Balkcom, Devin", title = "SoftSnap: Rapid Prototyping of Untethered Soft Robots Using Snap-Together Modules", journal = "Soft Robotics", year = "2024", note = "(Under Review)", url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19169", video = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWuYzo7xSno" }
(Under Review)
@article{zhao2024tensegrity, author = "Zhao, Luyang and Jiang, Yitao and Chen, Muhao and Bekris, Kostas and Balkcom, Devin", title = "Tensegrity-Blocks: Modular Shape-changing Blocks Enable Self-assembling Robotic Structures", journal = "Nature Communications", year = "2024", note = "(Under Review)" }
(Under Review)
@inproceedings{zhao2024dolphin, author = "Zhao, Luyang and Jiang, Yitao and She, Chun-Yi and Jeong, Mingi and Dong, Haibo and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Chen, Muhao and Balkcom, Devin", title = "An Untethered Bioinspired Robotic Tensegrity Dolphin with Multi-Flexibility Design for Aquatic Locomotion", booktitle = "RoboSoft", year = "2024", note = "(Under Review)", url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00347", video = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avUUYTJ178g" }
(Under Review)
@inproceedings{ma2024exploration, author = "Ma, Weicheng and Zhao, Luyang and She, Chun-Yi and Jiang, Yitao and Sun, Alan and Zhu, Bo and Balkcom, Devin and Vosoughi, Soroush", title = "On the Exploration of LM-Based Soft Modular Robot Design", booktitle = "RoboSoft", year = "2024", note = "(Under Review)", url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00345" }
(Accepted)
@inproceedings{zhao2024design, author = "Zhao, Luyang and Jiang, Yitao and She, Chun-Yi and Balkcom, Devin and Dong, Haibo and Chen, Muhao", title = "Design and Experiment of a Lightweight Robotic Tensegrity Morphing Wing", booktitle = "AIAA SciTech", year = "2024", note = "(Accepted)" }
(Under Review)
@inproceedings{jeong2024multi, author = "Jeong, Mingi and Chadda, Arihant and Ren, Ziang and Zhao, Luyang and Liu, Haowen and Roznere, Monika and Zhang, Aiwei and Jiang, Yitao and Achong, Sabriel and Lensgraf, Samuel and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto", title = "SeePerSea: Multi-modal Perception Dataset of In-water Objects for Autonomous Surface Vehicles", booktitle = "IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics", year = "2024", note = "(Under Review)", url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18411" }
@article{zhao2023starblocks, author = "Zhao, Luyang and Wu, Yijia and Yan, Wenzhong and Zhan, Weishu and Huang, Xiaonan and Booth, Joran and Mehta, Ankur and Bekris, Kostas and Kramer-Bottiglio, Rebecca and Balkcom, Devin", title = "StarBlocks: Soft Actuated Self-Connecting Blocks for Building Deformable Lattice Structures", journal = "IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters", year = "2023", url = "https://luyangzhao.github.io/assets/documents/papers/soft2.pdf", video = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xno0FBs3ZdQ" }
@article{zhao2022soft, author = "Zhao, Luyang and Wu, Yijia and Blanchet, Julien and Perroni-Scharf, Maxine and Huang, Xiaonan and Booth, Joran and Kramer-Bottiglio, Rebecca and Balkcom, Devin", title = "Soft Lattice Modules That Behave Independently and Collectively", journal = "IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters", year = "2022", url = "http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.11485", video = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYLYyijfzCg" }
@inproceedings{zhao2020plrc, author = "Zhao, Luyang and Putman, Josiah and Wang, Weifu and Balkcom, Devin", title = "PLRC*: A piecewise linear regression complex for approximating optimal robot motion", booktitle = "IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)", year = "2020", url = "https://luyangzhao.github.io/assets/documents/papers/plrc.pdf" }
@article{liu2019, author = "Liu, Ruibo and Shao, Qijia and Wang, Siqi and Ru, Christina and Balkcom, Devin and Zhou, Xia", title = "Reconstructing Human Joint Motion with Computational Fabrics", journal = "Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.", issue_date = "March 2019", volume = "3", number = "1", month = "March", year = "2019", issn = "2474-9567", pages = "19:1–19:26", articleno = "19", numpages = "26" }
@inproceedings{putman2019lldm, author = "Putman, Josiah and Oh, Lisa and Zhao, Luyang and Honnold, Evan and Brown, Galen and Wang, Weifu and Balkcom, Devin", title = "LLDM: Locally linear distance maps for robot motion planning: Extended Abstract", booktitle = "International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS)", year = "2019", url = "https://luyangzhao.github.io/assets/documents/papers/lldm.pdf" }
(accepted)
@article{quattrinili2019auro, author = "{Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Penumarthi, Phani Krishna and Banfi, Jacopo and O'Kane, Nicola Basilicoand Jason and Rekleitis, Ioannis and Nelakuditi, Srihari and Amigoni, Francesco", journal = "Autonomous Robots", title = "Multi-robot Online Sensing Strategies for the Construction of Communication Maps", year = "2019", note = "(accepted)" }
@inproceedings{Zhang2018-interlocking, author = "Zhang, Yinan and Balkcom, Devin", title = "Interlocking block assembly", booktitle = "Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics ({WAFR})", year = "2018", month = "December" }
@inproceedings{Wang2018-time-optimal, author = "Wang, Weifu and Balkcom, Devin", title = "Time-optimal motion of spatial {D}ubins systems", booktitle = "Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics ({WAFR})", year = "2018", month = "December" }
@inproceedings{li2018-mobicom, author = "Li, Tianxing and Zhou, Xia", title = "Battery-Free Eye Tracker on Glasses", booktitle = "ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking ({MobiCom})", year = "2018", month = "November" }
@inproceedings{li2018-uist, author = "Li, Yichen and Li, Tianxing and Patel, Ruchir A. and Yang, Xing-Dong and Zhou, Xia", title = "Self-Powered Gesture Recognition with Ambient Light", booktitle = "The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology ({UIST})", year = "2018", month = "October" }
@article{Zhang2018a, author = "Zhang, Yinan and Whiting, Emily and Balkcom, Devin", title = "Assembling and disassembling planar structures with divisible and atomic components", journal = "{IEEE} Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering", year = "2018", month = "July", volume = "15", number = "3", pages = "945 – 954", doi = "10.1109/TASE.2018.2809595" }
@inproceedings{tian2018, author = "Tian, Zhao and Wei, Yu-Lin and Chang, Wei-Nin and Xiong, Xi and Zheng, Changxi and Tsai, Hsin-Mu and Lin, Kate Ching-Ju and Zhou, Xia", title = "Augmenting Indoor Inertial Tracking with Polarized Light", booktitle = "ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services ({MobiSys}),", year = "2018", month = "June" }
@inproceedings{Balkcom2018, author = "Balkcom, Devin and Furtuna, Andrei and Wang, Weifu", title = "The Dubins car and other arm-like mobile robots", booktitle = "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)", year = "2018", month = "May" }
@article{Montanari2018, author = "Montanari, Alessandro and Tian, Zhao and Francu, Elena and Lucas, Benjamin and Jones, Brian and Zhou, Xia and Mascolo, Cecilia", title = "Measuring Interaction Proxemics with Wearable Light Tags", journal = "{Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.}", year = "2018", month = "March", volume = "2", number = "1", pages = "25:1–25:30", doi = "10.1145/3191757" }
@article{Wang2018, author = "Wang, Weifu and Balkcom, Devin", title = "Knot grasping, folding, and re-grasping", journal = "International Journal of Robotics Research", year = "2018", month = "February", volume = "37", number = "2-3", pages = "378 – 399", doi = "10.1177/0278364918754676" }
@inproceedings{ferland2018assistive, author = "Ferland, Libby and Li, Ziwei and Sukhani, Shridhar and Zheng, Joan and Zhao, Luyang and Gini, Maria L.", title = "Assistive AI for Coping with Memory Loss", booktitle = "AAAI Workshops", year = "2018" }
@inproceedings{liu2018, author = "Liu, Haixiang and Hu, Yuanming and Zhu, Bo and Matusik, Wojciech and Sifakis, Eftychios", title = "Narrow-band Topology Optimization on a Sparsely Populated Grid", booktitle = "SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Technical Papers", series = "SIGGRAPH Asia '18", year = "2018", doi = "10.1145/3272127.3275012" }
(accepted)
@inproceedings{amigoni2018dars, author = "Amigoni, Francesco and Banfi, Jacopo and Basilico, Nicola and Rekleitis, Ioannis and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto", booktitle = "International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS)", title = "Online Update of Communication Maps for Exploring Multirobot Systems under Connectivity Constraints", year = "2018", note = "(accepted)" }
(accepted)
@inproceedings{moulton2018iser, author = "Moulton, Jason and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Rekleitis, Ioannis", booktitle = "International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER)", title = "External Force Field Modeling for Autonomous Surface Vehicles", year = "2018", note = "(accepted)" }
(accepted)
@inproceedings{damron2018iros, author = "Damron, Hunter and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Rekleitis, Ioannis", booktitle = "IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots (IROS)", title = "Underwater Surveying via Bearing only Cooperative Localization", year = "2018", note = "(accepted)" }
@inproceedings{modasshir2018crv, author = "Modasshir, Md and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Rekleitis, Ioannis", booktitle = "Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV)", title = "Deep Neural Networks: a Comparison on Different Computing Platforms", year = "2018" }
@inproceedings{manjanna2018icra, author = "Manjanna, Sandeep and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Smith, Ryan N. and Rekleitis, Ioannis and Dudek, Gregory", booktitle = "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)", title = "Heterogeneous Multirobot System for Exploration and Strategic Water Sampling", year = "2018" }
@inproceedings{karapetyan2018icra, author = "Karapetyan, Nare and Moulton, Jason and Lewis, Jeremy S. and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and O'Kane, Jason M. and Rekleitis, Ioannis", booktitle = "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)", title = "Multi-robot {Dubins} Coverage with Autonomous Surface Vehicles", year = "2018" }
@inproceedings{rahman2018icra, author = "Rahman, Sharmin and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Rekleitis, Ioannis", booktitle = "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)", title = "{Sonar Visual Inertial {SLAM} of Underwater Structures}", year = "2018" }
@inproceedings{quattrinili2018aamas, author = "{Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Fioratto, Raffaele and Amigoni, Francesco and Isler, Volkan", booktitle = "International Conference on Autonomous \& Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)", title = "A Search-Based Approach to Solve Pursuit-Evasion Games with Limited Visibility in Polygonal Environments", year = "2018", pages = "1693-1701", url = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3237383.323795" }
@article{amigoni2018ras, author = "Amigoni, Francesco and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto", journal = "Robotics and Autonomous Systems", title = "Comparing Methods for Merging Redundant Line Segments in Maps", year = "2018", pages = "135–147", volume = "99", doi = "10.1016/j.robot.2017.10.016", keywords = "Map merging, Line segment maps" }
@article{banfi2018auro, author = "Banfi, Jacopo and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Rekleitis, Ioannis and Amigoni, Francesco and Basilico, Nicola", journal = "Autonomous Robots", title = "Strategies for coordinated multirobot exploration with recurrent connectivity constraints", year = "2018", pages = "875–894", volume = "42", doi = "10.1007/s10514-017-9652-y", keywords = "Multirobot systems, Exploration, Communication constraints, Recurrent connectivity" }
(accepted)
@inproceedings{hansen2018oceans, author = "Hansen, Johanna and Manjanna, Sandeep and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Rekleitis, Ioannis and Dudek, Gregory", booktitle = "Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS – Charleston, SC", title = "Autonomous Marine Sampling Enhanced by Strategically Deployed Drifters in Marine Flow Fields", year = "2018", note = "(accepted)" }
(accepted)
(accepted)
@inproceedings{moulton2018oceans, author = "Moulton, Jason and Karapetyan, Nare and Bukhsbaum, Sharon and McKinney, Chris and Malebary, Sharaf and Sophocleous, George and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Rekleitis, Ioannis", booktitle = "Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS – Charleston, SC", title = "An Autonomous Surface Vehicle for Long Term Operations", year = "2018", note = "(accepted)" }
(accepted)
@inproceedings{rahman2018oceans, author = "Rahman, Sharmin and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Rekleitis, Ioannis", booktitle = "Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS – Charleston, SC", title = "A Modular Sensor Suite for Underwater Reconstruction", year = "2018", note = "(accepted)" }
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