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:

Surgical robots for semi-autonomous and image-guided surgery

Biomimetic robots for human-robot care, animal conservation, and extraterrestrial exploration

Robot learning for interacting with the world around us.

The group is directed by Professor Michael Yip.

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Recent Publications

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Oct 2024

KineDepth: Utilizing Robot Kinematics for Online Metric Depth Estimation

15 Oct 2024 3D Robot Vision, Robot Pose Estimation Michael Yip 0

arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.19490 (2024)
Soofiyan Atar, Yuheng Zhi, Florian Richter, Michael Yip

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Oct 2024

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

15 Oct 2024 Autonomous Surgery, Robot Learning Foundations Michael Yip 0

arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.15651 (2024)
Yun-Jie Ho, Zih-Yun Chiu, Yuheng Zhi, Michael C Yip

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Oct 2024

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

15 Oct 2024 Autonomous Surgery Michael Yip 0

arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.14282 (2024)
Xiao Liang, Youcheng Zhang, Fei Liu, Florian Richter, Michael Yip

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Seeking undergraduate 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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