Publications

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Geometry-aware Policy Imitation

Yiming Li, Nael Darwiche, Amirreza Razmjoo, Sichao Liu, Yilun Du, Auke Ijspeert and Sylvain Calinon

International Conference on Learning Representations 2026 (ICLR 2026).

A Riemannian Take on Distance Fields and Geodesic Flows in Robotics

Yiming Li, Jiacheng Qiu, Sylvain Calinon

International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR).

From Movement Primitives to Distance Fields to Dynamical Systems

Yiming Li and Sylvain Calinon

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).

Configuration Space Distance Fields for Manipulation Planning

Yiming Li, Xuemin Chi, Amirreza Razmjoo, Sylvain Calinon

In Proc. Robotics: Science and Systems 2024 (RSS 2024).

Best Paper Award Finalist

Online Learning of Continuous Signed Distance Fields Using Piecewise Polynomials

Ante Marić, Yiming Li, Sylvain Calinon

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 9 (6), 6020-6026.

Representing Robot Geometry as Distance Fields: Applications to Whole-body Manipulation

Yiming Li, Yan Zhang, Amirreza Razmjoo, Sylvain Calinon

In Proc. IEEE Intl Conf. on Robotics and Automation 2024 (ICRA 2024).

HGC-Net: Deep Anthropomorphic Hand Grasping in Clutter

Yiming Li, Wei Wei, Daheng Li, Peng Wang, Wanyi Li, Jun Zhong

In Proc. IEEE Intl Conf. on Robotics and Automation 2022 (ICRA 2022).

Learning Human-to-robot Dexterous Handovers for Anthropomorphic Hand

Hoanan Duan, Peng Wang, Yiming Li, Daheng Li, Wei Wei

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems(T-CDS) 15 (3), 1224-1238.

DVGG: Deep Variational Grasp Generation for Dextrous Manipulation

Wei Wei, Daheng Li, Peng Wang, Yiming Li, Wanyi Li,Yongkang Luo, Jun Zhong

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 7 (2), 1659-1666.

Simultaneous Semantic and Collision Learning for 6-dof Grasp Pose Estimation

Yiming Li, Tao Kong, Ruihang Chu, Yifeng Li, Peng Wang, Lei Li

In Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2022 (IROS 2022).