<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.2.2">Jekyll</generator><link href="http://imtianyuli.com/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="http://imtianyuli.com/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-10-02T10:50:30-07:00</updated><id>http://imtianyuli.com/feed.xml</id><title type="html">🤖</title><subtitle>I envision a future where robots are not only capable, but also intuitive, adaptive, and safe.</subtitle><author><name>Tianyu Tony Li&lt;br&gt;李天宇</name></author><entry><title type="html">Dreaming the Sound of Contact: Leveraging Video and Audio Generation for Zero-Shot Force-Aware Manipulation</title><link href="http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2026/04/22/pub-dreaming-contact.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Dreaming the Sound of Contact: Leveraging Video and Audio Generation for Zero-Shot Force-Aware Manipulation" /><published>2026-04-22T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2026-04-22T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2026/04/22/pub-dreaming-contact</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2026/04/22/pub-dreaming-contact.html"><![CDATA[<h2 id="coming-soon">Coming Soon</h2>]]></content><author><name>Tianyu Tony Li&lt;br&gt;李天宇</name></author><category term="publications" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[We present a pipeline that jointly leverages generated video and audio to recover both motion trajectories and contact force profiles from a single task description, enabling zero-shot force-aware manipulation where a kinematic-only baseline fails.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Flow with the Force Field: Learning 3D Compliant Flow Matching Policies from Force and Demonstration-Guided Simulation Data</title><link href="http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2025/09/15/pub-flow-force.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Flow with the Force Field: Learning 3D Compliant Flow Matching Policies from Force and Demonstration-Guided Simulation Data" /><published>2025-09-15T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2025-09-15T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2025/09/15/pub-flow-force</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2025/09/15/pub-flow-force.html"><![CDATA[<h2 id="coming-soon">Coming Soon</h2>]]></content><author><name>Tianyu Tony Li&lt;br&gt;李天宇</name></author><category term="publications" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[We introduce a framework for generating force-informed data in simulation, instantiated by a single human demonstration, and show how coupling with a compliant policy improves the performance of a visuomotor policy learned from synthetic data.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">VLMgineer: Vision Language Models as Robotic Toolsmiths</title><link href="http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2025/09/10/pub-vlmgineer.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="VLMgineer: Vision Language Models as Robotic Toolsmiths" /><published>2025-09-10T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2025-09-10T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2025/09/10/pub-vlmgineer</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2025/09/10/pub-vlmgineer.html"><![CDATA[<h2 id="coming-soon">Coming Soon</h2>]]></content><author><name>Tianyu Tony Li&lt;br&gt;李天宇</name></author><category term="publications" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[We introduce VLMgineer, a novel VLM-driven evolutionary framework that automatically co-design tools and actions to solve robotics task.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">VPP-TC: Viability-Preserving Passive Torque Control</title><link href="http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2025/08/14/pub-vpp.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="VPP-TC: Viability-Preserving Passive Torque Control" /><published>2025-08-14T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2025-08-14T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2025/08/14/pub-vpp</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2025/08/14/pub-vpp.html"><![CDATA[<h2 id="coming-soon">Coming Soon</h2>]]></content><author><name>Tianyu Tony Li&lt;br&gt;李天宇</name></author><category term="publications" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A quadratic programming-based control framework enforces viability theory constructed constraints on a passive controller tracking a dynamical system, ensuring the robot states remain within the safe set in an infinite time horizon.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Elastic Motion Policy: An Adaptive Dynamical System for Robust and Efficient One-Shot Imitation Learning</title><link href="http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2025/03/13/pub-emp.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Elastic Motion Policy: An Adaptive Dynamical System for Robust and Efficient One-Shot Imitation Learning" /><published>2025-03-13T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2025-03-13T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2025/03/13/pub-emp</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2025/03/13/pub-emp.html"><![CDATA[<h2 id="coming-soon">Coming Soon</h2>]]></content><author><name>Tianyu Tony Li&lt;br&gt;李天宇</name></author><category term="publications" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A one-shot stable imitation learning framework that allows robots to adjust their behavior based on the scene change while respecting the task specification.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">MORF: Magnetic Origami Reprogramming and Folding System for Repeatably Reconfigurable Structures with Fold Angle Control</title><link href="http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2025/03/10/pub-morf.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="MORF: Magnetic Origami Reprogramming and Folding System for Repeatably Reconfigurable Structures with Fold Angle Control" /><published>2025-03-10T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2025-03-10T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2025/03/10/pub-morf</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2025/03/10/pub-morf.html"><![CDATA[<h2 id="coming-soon">Coming Soon</h2>]]></content><author><name>Tianyu Tony Li&lt;br&gt;李天宇</name></author><category term="publications" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[We introduce MORF, a magnetic origami system that folds sheets into rigid, repeatedly reprogrammable structures with controllable fold angles, enabling adaptive robotic tools that can be reshaped for new tasks instead of rebuilt.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Out-of-Distribution Recovery with Object-Centric Keypoint Inverse Policy For Visuomotor Imitation Learning</title><link href="http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2023/09/01/pub-ocr.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Out-of-Distribution Recovery with Object-Centric Keypoint Inverse Policy For Visuomotor Imitation Learning" /><published>2023-09-01T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2023-09-01T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2023/09/01/pub-ocr</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2023/09/01/pub-ocr.html"><![CDATA[<h2 id="coming-soon">Coming Soon</h2>]]></content><author><name>Tianyu Tony Li&lt;br&gt;李天宇</name></author><category term="publications" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[An object-centric recovery policy that detects when an imitation policy drifts out of distribution and steers it back via object keypoints, with no extra data.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Constrained Passive Interaction Control: Leveraging Passivity and Safety for Robot Manipulators</title><link href="http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2023/08/30/pub-passive-control.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Constrained Passive Interaction Control: Leveraging Passivity and Safety for Robot Manipulators" /><published>2023-08-30T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2023-08-30T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2023/08/30/pub-passive-control</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2023/08/30/pub-passive-control.html"><![CDATA[<h2 id="coming-soon">Coming Soon</h2>]]></content><author><name>Tianyu Tony Li&lt;br&gt;李天宇</name></author><category term="publications" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A control architecture for torque-controlled robots that enforces safety constraints such as joint limits, self-collisions, external collisions, and singularities, while staying passive whenever the constraints allow.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Learning Safe and Stable Motion Plans with Neural Ordinary Differential Equations</title><link href="http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2023/08/29/pub-node.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Learning Safe and Stable Motion Plans with Neural Ordinary Differential Equations" /><published>2023-08-29T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2023-08-29T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2023/08/29/pub-node</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2023/08/29/pub-node.html"><![CDATA[<h2 id="coming-soon">Coming Soon</h2>]]></content><author><name>Tianyu Tony Li&lt;br&gt;李天宇</name></author><category term="publications" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A motion planning approach that learns plans with Neural Ordinary Differential Equations and certifies stability with Control Lyapunov Functions and safety with Control Barrier Functions, so learned motions stay stable and safe.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Constraint-Aware Intent Estimation for Dynamic Human-Robot Object Co-Manipulation</title><link href="http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2023/08/28/pub-intent-capability.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Constraint-Aware Intent Estimation for Dynamic Human-Robot Object Co-Manipulation" /><published>2023-08-28T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2023-08-28T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2023/08/28/pub-intent-capability</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://imtianyuli.com/publications/2023/08/28/pub-intent-capability.html"><![CDATA[<h2 id="coming-soon">Coming Soon</h2>]]></content><author><name>Tianyu Tony Li&lt;br&gt;李天宇</name></author><category term="publications" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A dynamical-system representation for estimating human intent during dynamic object co-manipulation that accounts for the constraints of the human, letting the robot anticipate and follow its partner's motion.]]></summary></entry></feed>