Publications

Publications in reversed chronological order.

2025

  1. Viability-Preserving Passive Torque Control
    Zizhe Zhang*, Yicong Wang*, Zhiquan Zhang, Tianyu Li, and Nadia Figueroa
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2026
    🏆 Best Student Paper Award at IROS Workshop on Building Safe Robots, 2025
    🏆 Best Contribution Award at IROS Workshop on Exploring the Role of Energy in Robot Learning and Control, 2025
    Award / arXiv / pdf / Website
  2. Flow with the Force Field: Learning 3D Compliant Flow Matching Policies from Force and Demonstration-Guided Simulation Data
    Tianyu Li* , Yihan Li* , Zizhe Zhang, and Nadia Figueroa
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2026
    IROS Workshop on Exploring the Role of Energy in Robot Learning and Control, 2025
    IROS Workshop on Contact and Impact-aware Manipulation, 2025
    arXiv / pdf / Website
  3. VLMgineer: Vision Language Models as Robotic Toolsmiths
    George Jiayuan Gao*, Tianyu Li*, Junyao Shi , Zizhe Zhang† , Yihan Li†, Nadia Figueroa, and Dinesh Jayaraman
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
    Oral Spotlight✨ at RSS Workshop on Robot Hardware-Aware Intelligence, 2025
    arXiv / pdf / Website
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    Image-Based Visual Servoing for Enhanced Cooperation of Dual-Arm Manipulation
    Zizhe Zhang, Yuan Yang, Wenqiang Zuo , Guangming Song, Aiguo Song , and Yang Shi
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025
    Presented at IROS, 2025
    arXiv / pdf / Website