From 270c60f5abca0aa14c82684aec37aced36431fe6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Omkar Patil Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:24:33 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] made the carousel better with proj videos, added stagecraft and workshop iros acceptance --- _data/alumni_msc.yml | 30 ++++++++ _data/news.yml | 8 ++- _data/publist.yml | 13 +++- _data/students.yml | 38 ---------- _pages/home.md | 131 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- images/pubpic/stagecraft.png | Bin 0 -> 42688 bytes videos/fdp_distractor.mp4 | Bin 0 -> 112904 bytes videos/sawyer_14.mp4 | Bin 0 -> 382763 bytes videos/sawyer_23.mp4 | Bin 0 -> 320110 bytes videos/stagecraft_pi05.mp4 | Bin 0 -> 953702 bytes videos/stagecraft_real.mp4 | Bin 0 -> 506783 bytes 11 files changed, 168 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-) create mode 100644 images/pubpic/stagecraft.png create mode 100644 videos/fdp_distractor.mp4 create mode 100644 videos/sawyer_14.mp4 create mode 100644 videos/sawyer_23.mp4 create mode 100644 videos/stagecraft_pi05.mp4 create mode 100644 videos/stagecraft_real.mp4 diff --git a/_data/alumni_msc.yml b/_data/alumni_msc.yml index fb248f1..31c7ca5 100644 --- a/_data/alumni_msc.yml +++ b/_data/alumni_msc.yml @@ -33,6 +33,36 @@ # info: # website: +- name: Kartikay Pangaonkar + graduated: Spring 2026 + # info: + website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kartikay-pangaonkar-7594a8204/ + +- name: Bhavya Shah + graduated: Spring 2026 + # info: + # website: + +- name: Ryan Sam Varghese + graduated: Spring 2026 + # info: + website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-sam-varghese + +- name: Swagat Padhan + graduated: Spring 2026 + # info: + # website: + +- name: Lakshya Jain + graduated: Spring 2026 + # info: + # website: + +- name: Anudeep Gottapu + graduated: Spring 2026 + # info: + # website: + # - name: Koen M Bastiaans, Spring 2015 diff --git a/_data/news.yml b/_data/news.yml index 160e2fb..08e98af 100644 --- a/_data/news.yml +++ b/_data/news.yml @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ -- date: Feb 1 2026 +- date: July 14 2026 + headline: Omkar Patil and Nakul Gopalan are organizing the workshop on [Compositional and Modular Learning in the Era of Scaling in Robotics](https://compositional-robotics.github.io/) at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh! + +- date: July 14 2026 + headline: "[StageCraft](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20659), our work on execution-aware mitigation of distractor and obstruction failures in VLA models, has been accepted to IROS 2026!" + +- date: Feb 1 2026 headline: Two papers from the lab [FDP](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16830) and [PokeNet](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02741) have been accepted to ICRA 2026! - date: Jan 27 2025 diff --git a/_data/publist.yml b/_data/publist.yml index ef4fdec..bf64ca1 100644 --- a/_data/publist.yml +++ b/_data/publist.yml @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +- title: "StageCraft: Execution Aware Mitigation of Distractor and Obstruction Failures in VLA Models" + image: stagecraft.png + description: "Vision Language Action models often fail at execution time due to distractor objects and physical obstructions. StageCraft is a training-free approach that uses vision-language model reasoning over policy rollout videos and success labels to identify which objects to reposition before execution, preventing anticipated failures. It improves performance by roughly 40% across three real-world task domains, adapting its interventions to the strength of the underlying policy." + authors: Kartikay Milind Pangaonkar, Prabin Rath, Omkar Patil, Nakul Gopalan + link: + url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20659 + display: 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) + highlight: 1 + - title: "PokeNet: Learning Kinematic Models of Articulated Objects from Human Observations" image: anmol.png description: "Articulation modeling enables robots to learn how an object’s joints move so they can manipulate it effectively. PokeNet is an end-to-end framework that learns articulation models from a single human demonstration without prior object knowledge. From point cloud sequences, it predicts joint parameters, infers manipulation order, and tracks joint states over time." @@ -5,7 +14,7 @@ link: url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02741 display: 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) - highlight: 1 + highlight: 0 - title: Factorizing Diffusion Policies for Observation Modality Prioritization image: dist-rw.png @@ -14,7 +23,7 @@ link: url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16830 display: 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) - highlight: 1 + highlight: 0 - title: XMoP- Whole-Body Control Policy for Zero-shot Cross-Embodiment Neural Motion Planning image: prabin_xmop.png diff --git a/_data/students.yml b/_data/students.yml index 5edc24f..f909519 100644 --- a/_data/students.yml +++ b/_data/students.yml @@ -59,50 +59,12 @@ # number_educ: 0 # education1: -- name: Kartikay Pangaonkar - website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kartikay-pangaonkar-7594a8204/ - photo: s6.jpg - info: Master student - number_educ: 0 - education1: - - name: Prabhath Adireddi photo: s4.jpg info: Master student number_educ: 0 education1: -- name: Bhavya Shah - photo: s6.jpg - info: Master student - number_educ: 0 - education1: - -- name: Anudeep Gottapu - photo: s6.jpg - info: Master student - number_educ: 0 - education1: - -- name: Ryan Sam Varghese - website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-sam-varghese - photo: ryan_varghese.jpg - info: Master student - number_educ: 0 - education1: - -- name: Swagat Padhan - photo: s6.jpg - info: Master student - number_educ: 0 - education1: - -- name: Lakshya Jain - photo: s6.jpg - info: Master student - number_educ: 0 - education1: - # - name: Yu-Lun Liu # photo: s6.jpg # info: Master student diff --git a/_pages/home.md b/_pages/home.md index ffa6389..c653e68 100644 --- a/_pages/home.md +++ b/_pages/home.md @@ -6,29 +6,48 @@ sitemap: false permalink: / --- -**News: Two papers from the lab have been accepted into ICRA 2026!** +**News: [StageCraft](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20659) has been accepted into IROS 2026, where we are also organizing a [workshop on compositional and modular learning](https://compositional-robotics.github.io/)!** -