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Tucker Hermans

Tucker Hermans is a senior research scientist at NVIDIA working on robotic manipulation focusing on the interaction of multi-sensory perception, learning, and control. Tucker is also an assosciate professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah where he is a member of the Utah Robotics Center. Tucker earned his Ph.D. in Robotics from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Research Area(s)
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Robotics
Main Field of Interest
Robotics
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=G5_VFfkAAAAJ&hl=en

Publications

2023

StructDiffusion: Language-Guided Creation of Physically-Valid Structures using Unseen Objects
Weiyu Liu, Yilun Du, Tucker Hermans, Sonia Chernova, Chris Paxton
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2023
23 DoF Grasping Policies from a Raw Point Cloud
Martin Matak, Karl Van Wyk, Tucker Hermans
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Workshop on Geo…
Planning for Multi-Object Manipulation with Graph Neural Network Relational Classifiers
Yixuan Huang, Adam Conkey, Tucker Hermans
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
DefGraspNets: Grasp Planning on 3D Fields with Graph Neural Nets
Isabella Huang, Yashraj Narang, Ruzena Bajcsy, Fabio Ramos, Tucker Hermans, Dieter Fox
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

2022

Planning Visual-Tactile Precision Grasps via Complementary Use of Vision and Touch
Martin Matak, Tucker Hermans
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Correcting Robot Plans with Natural Language Feedback
Pratyusha Sharma, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Valts Blukis, Chris Paxton, Tucker Hermans, Antonio Torralba, Jacob Andreas, Dieter Fox
Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2022
DefGraspSim: Physics-Based Simulation of Grasp Outcomes on 3D Deformable Objects
Isabella Huang, Yashraj Narang, Clemens Eppner, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Miles Macklin, Ruzena Bajcsy, Tucker Hermans, Dieter Fox
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

2020

Contextual Reinforcement Learning of Visuo-tactile Multi-fingered Grasping Policies
Visak Kumar, Tucker Hermans, Dieter Fox, Stan Birchfield, Jonathan Tremblay
NeurIPS Workshop on Robot Learning

2019

Robust Learning of Tactile Force Estimation through Robot Interaction
Balakumar Sundaralingam, Alexander Lambert, Ankur Handa, Byron Boots, Tucker Hermans, Stan Birchfield, Nathan Ratliff, Dieter Fox
ICRA 2019