Yipai Du

About Me

I obtained my PhD degree in robotics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology under the supervision of Prof. Michael Yu Wang and Prof. Bertram Emil Shi. My research focuses on vision-based tactile sensing. During my PhD, I visited the MARS Lab at Purdue University and worked with Prof. Yu She on the GelSight and Digit tactile sensors. I obtained my master’s degree in Systems, Control and Robotics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and finished my master thesis on “Learning Dynamical Features for Vision-based Tactile Sensors” at ETH Zurich supervised by Prof. Raffaello D’Andrea and Dr. Carmelo Sferrazza. I received my bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Michigan - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute.

Research Interests

• Vision-based Tactile Sensing: Sensor design, signal processing and tactile-enabled applications
• Robotic Manipulation: Contact-rich manipulation, visual-tactile fusion
• Robot Learning: Learning for tactile perception and dynamic control

News

• [Oct. 2024] Our paper about T-shirt hanging from tactile feedback is accepted to ROBIO 2024. See you in Bangkok!
• [July 2024] Our paper about in-hand tactile manipulation is accepted to IROS 2024. See you in Abu Dhabi!
• [July 2023] Gsmini is released for better interface with the GelSight Mini tactile sensor. Please try it out!
• [Apr. 2023] I win the 2nd place in the Three Minute Thesis Competition of HKUST. See news and report.
• [Oct. 2022] Our paper about 3D contact dense reconstruction is accepted to RA-L and ICRA 2023. See you in London!
• [Sept. 2022] I am awarded the Best Teaching Assistant Award by the ECE Department of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
• [July 2022] I start to work as a visiting scholar at the MARS Lab of Purdue University.
• [July 2022] Our paper about a dense vision-based tactile sensor is accepted to RA-L.
• [June 2022] I am granted the Overseas Research Award by the HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School.
• [Jan. 2022] Our paper about a visual-tactile dual modality sensor is accepted to ICRA 2022.
• [Feb. 2021] Our paper about a tactile sensing foot is accepted to ICRA 2021.
• [Feb. 2021] Our paper about contact estimation with dense optical flow and Gaussian density is accepted to RA-L.
• [June 2020] Our paper about a tactile augmented robotic arm is accepted to CASE 2020.

Softwares

• Gsmini: A simplified and high-performing GelSight Mini interface
• Allegro Digit: Hardware interface to integrate the Allegro robotic hand and the Digit tactile sensor
• ATI FT Reader: Python and Matlab interfaces to read measurements from ATI Nano 17 DAQ

Publications

Services

Conference Reviewers

• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
• IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Journal Reviewers

• IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
• IEEE Sensors Journal

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