Yongxiang Fan

Welcome to my website! I am a Ph.D. in Robotics graduated from University of California, Berkeley. I worked with Prof. Masayoshi Tomizuka in Mechanical Systems Control (MSC) Labortorary. My research interest lies in interdisciplinary combination of robotics, optimization, aritificial intelligence and control theories, with the fileds in robotic dexterity research (grasping, manipulation and assembly) and human robot interation (collision avoidance, motion planning and human robot collabration). Email: yongxiang_fanATberkeleyDTedu [Curriculum Vitae], [Google Scholar] Updates 02/2021: Paper: Learn to Grasp with Less Supervision: A Data-Efficient Posterior Grasp Sampling Loss, submitted to RAL with IROS2021 option. 02/2021: Paper: 6-DoF Contrastive Grasp Proposal Network accepted by ICRA 2021. 10/2020: Short Paper: Why Does Robotic Dexterous Hand Grasp Fail? accepted by IROS 2020 Workshop. 05/2019: Dissertation defense finished! 03/2019: Two Papers: Efficient Grasp Planning and Execution with Multi-Fingered Hands by Surface Fitting and Iterative PPO-JPO accepted by RAL and IROS2019! 02/2019: Paper: A Learning Framework for High Precision Industrial Assembly accepted by IEEE ICRA2019! 08/2018: Paper: Grasp Planning for Customized Grippers by Iterative Surface Fitting won the IEEE CASE2018 Best Application Paper Award!

Education

• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley, 2014 - 2019

  • Major: Controls         Minors: Robotics, Optimization

  • GPA: 3.95/4.0         Advisor: Prof. Masayoshi Tomizuka

  • Related Fileds: Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning

• B.E. in University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 2010 - 2014

  • Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation

  • GPA: 92.7/100, Ranking: 1/61

Experience

• Graduate Student Researcher         MSC Lab, UC Berkeley         2014-2019

  • Project 1: Grasp Planning for Customized Grippers/ Multi-Fingered Hands

  • Project 2: Robust Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation for Multi-Fingered Hands

  • Project 3: Skill Learning for Precision Industrial Assembly

• Internship

  • AI Research Intern         Autodesk Inc., CA          06/2018-08/2018

    • Robotic Manipulation and Assembly by Combining Control, Optimization and AI.

  • Robotics Research Intern         FANUC Corporation, Japan          07/2017-09/2017

    • Dexterous Grasping and Manipulation Controller Development and Implementation

  • Vision & Robotics Research Consultant         Brachium Inc., CA          05/2016-07/2016

    • Develop Vision and Tracking Algorithms for Dental Robotics.

  • Robotics Research Intern         FANUC Corporation, Japan          06/2015-07/2015

    • Visual Servoing and Collision Avoidance Development