publications

publications by categories in reversed chronological order. generated by jekyll-scholar.

2024

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    Real-Time Whole-Body Control of Legged Robots with Model-Predictive Path Integral Control
    Juan Alvarez-Padilla, John Z. Zhang, Sofia Kwok, John M. Dolan, and Zachary Manchester
    under review, 2024
    arXiv PDF Website
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    Robots with Attitude: Singularity-Free Quaternion-Based Model-Predictive Control for Agile Legged Robots
    Zixin Zhang, John Z. Zhang, Shuo Yang, and Zachary Manchester
    under review, 2024
    arXiv PDF
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    ReLU-QP: A GPU-Accelerated Quadratic Programming Solver for Model-Predictive Control
    Arun L. Bishop*, John Z. Zhang*, Swaminathan Gurumurthy, Kevin Tracy, and Zachary Manchester
    In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (*equal contribution), 2024
    PDF Code Video
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    Fast Contact Implicit Model Predictive Control
    Simon Le Cleac’h*, Taylor Howell*, Shuo Yang, Chiyen Lee, John Z. Zhang, Arun Bishop, Mac Schwager, and Zachary Manchester
    In IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2024
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    Robust Low‑Drift Multi‑Sensor Visual‑Inertial‑Leg Odometry for Legged Robots
    Shuo Yang, Zixin Zhang, Ibrahima Sow, John Z. Zhang, and Zachary Manchester
    under review at IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2024
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    Heterogeneous Policy Networks for Composite Robot Team Communication and Coordination
    Esmaeil Seraj, Rohan Paleja, Luis Pimentel, Kin Man Lee, Zheyuan Wang, Daniel Martin, Matthew Sklar, John Z. Zhang, Zahi Kakish, and Matthew Gombolay
    In IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2024
    PDF Code
  7. Advancing Legged Robot Agility: from Video Imitation to GPU Acceleration
    John Z. Zhang
    Carnegie Mellon University, Aug 2024
    PDF Video

2023

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    SLoMo: A General System for Legged Robot Motion Imitation from Casual Videos
    John Z. Zhang, Shuo Yang, Gengshan Yang, Arun Bishop, Swaminathan Gurumurthy, Deva Ramanan, and Zachary Manchester
    In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Aug 2023
    PDF Code Website Video
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    PPR: Physically Plausible Reconstruction from Monocular Videos
    Gengshan Yang, Shuo Yang, John Z. Zhang, Zachary Manchester, and Deva Ramanan
    In IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (Oral), Aug 2023
    PDF Code Website

2021

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    Mediating between Contact Feasibility and Robustness of Trajectory Optimization through Chance Complementarity Constraints
    Luke Drnach*, John Z. Zhang*, and Ye Zhao
    In Frontiers in Robotics and AI (*equal contribution), Aug 2021
    PDF Code