Soft Material Modeling

Modeling soft materials is challenging. Collaborating with MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, we presented a fully differentiable simulation platform for thin-shell object manipulation tasks (e.g., papers) and a differentiable simulation environment for vision-based tactile sensors (e.g., GelSight) for learning robotic skills.

Chao Liu
Chao Liu
Postdoctoral Associate

My research interests include manipulation and tactile sensing, swarm and modular robotics, soft robotics, parallel robotics, control and motion planning.