ARClab

Welcome to the Advanced Robotics and Controls Lab

The Advanced Robotics and Controls Lab (ARClab) at UCSD is dedicated to research in design and automation of intelligent robots for the betterment of humanity. Key areas of research are in:


The group is directed by Professor Michael Yip.

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Recent Publications

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Humanoids in Hospitals: A Technical Study of Humanoid Surrogates for Dexterous Medical Interventions

18 Mar 2025 Autonomous Surgery, Robot Learning Foundations Michael Yip 0

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Differentiable Rendering-based Pose Estimation for Surgical Robotic Instruments

18 Mar 2025 Autonomous Surgery, Robot Pose Estimation Michael Yip 0

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Back to Base: Towards Hands-Off Learning via Safe Resets with Reach-Avoid Safety Filters

18 Mar 2025 Collision and Distance Field Estimation, Robot Learning Foundations Michael Yip 0

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KineDepth: Utilizing Robot Kinematics for Online Metric Depth Estimation

18 Mar 2025 3D Robot Vision, Robot Pose Estimation Michael Yip 0

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SurgIRL: Towards Life-Long Learning for Surgical Automation by Incremental Reinforcement Learning

18 Mar 2025 Autonomous Surgery, Robot Learning Foundations Michael Yip 0

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AutoPeel: Adhesion-aware Safe Peeling Trajectory Optimization for Robotic Wound Care

18 Mar 2025 Autonomous Surgery Michael Yip 0

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Seeking UCSD Undergrad and MS researchers!

We are seeking motivated students to conduct research in the domains of robotic design and control, robot learning, 3D computer vision, and foundation models for robotics and CV. Those who are interested are advised to check out our Opportunities page on how to reach out, and indicate you interests.
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Here's a 3-minute teaser given by Professor Yip for students highlighting active research in the lab (Oct 2023):

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