Bo Ai

I am currently a research engineer at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, working with Cheston Tan. I have also been collaborating with Jiajun Wu and Yunzhu Li. I am interested in learning dynamics models, sim-to-real transfer, and integrating learning and planning.

Earlier, I was a visiting researcher intern at the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab. I received my Bachelor’s in CS from the National University of Singapore, where I worked with David Hsu on long-horizon visual navigation with a Spot robot. I am joining UC San Diego as a PhD student in the Computer Science and Engineering Department in 2024 fall, working with Hao Su and Henrik I. Christensen.

News

May 05, 2024	I will present our work RoboPack in three workshops at ICRA 2024: ViTac, 3DVRM, and Future Roadmap for Manipulation Skills. Welcome to drop by our poster sessions.
Apr 14, 2024	I am joining UCSD as a PhD student in 2024 fall!

Selected Publications

RoboPack: Learning Tactile-Informed Dynamics Models for Dense Packing

Bo Ai*, Stephen Tian*, Haochen Shi, Yixuan Wang, Cheston Tan, Yunzhu Li, and Jiajun Wu

In Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) , 2024

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@inproceedings{ai2024robopack,
  title = {RoboPack: Learning Tactile-Informed Dynamics Models for Dense Packing},
  author = {Ai*, Bo and Tian*, Stephen and Shi, Haochen and Wang, Yixuan and Tan, Cheston and Li, Yunzhu and Wu, Jiajun},
  booktitle = {Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=wotzhMiRUT},
}

Invariance is Key to Generalization: Examining the Role of Representation in Sim-to-Real Transfer for Visual Navigation

Bo Ai , Zhanxin Wu, and David Hsu

International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), 2023

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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2310-15020,
  author = {Ai, Bo and Wu, Zhanxin and Hsu, David},
  title = {Invariance is Key to Generalization: Examining the Role of Representation
                    in Sim-to-Real Transfer for Visual Navigation},
  journal = {International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER)},
  volume = {abs/2310.15020},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.15020},
  doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2310.15020},
  eprinttype = {arXiv},
  eprint = {2310.15020},
  timestamp = {Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:29:45 +0100},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/corr/abs-2310-15020.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
}

Deep Visual Navigation under Partial Observability

Bo Ai, Wei Gao, Vinay, and David Hsu

In 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2022, Philadelphia, PA, USA, May 23-27, 2022 , 2022

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@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/icra/AiGVH22,
  author = {Ai, Bo and Gao, Wei and Vinay and Hsu, David},
  title = {Deep Visual Navigation under Partial Observability},
  booktitle = {2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, {ICRA} 2022,
                    Philadelphia, PA, USA, May 23-27, 2022},
  pages = {9439--9446},
  publisher = {{IEEE}},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA46639.2022.9811598},
  doi = {10.1109/ICRA46639.2022.9811598},
  timestamp = {Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:29:46 +0100},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/icra/AiGVH22.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
}