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Alap Kshirsagar

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arxivcs.ROcs.HCeess.SY2026-07-16

Catch, Throw, Repeat: Planning for Human-Robot Partner Juggling

Jonathan Rainer Lippert, Kai Ploeger, Abir Chowdhury, Hermann Müller, Jan Peters, Alap Kshirsagar

Dynamic object exchange between humans and robots remains a challenging problem due to uncertainty in perception, timing, and contact-rich interaction. Human-robot juggling represents a particularly demanding instance of this problem, requiring precise real-time coordination, pre…

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arxivcs.ROcs.AI2026-07-10

More Structure, Not More Capacity: Object-Centric Representations for Visuomotor Imitation Learning

Yi Li, Alexandre Chapin, Liming Chen, Jan Peters, Alap Kshirsagar

Robotic manipulation policies rely on pre-trained vision models that give either a global scene embedding or a dense patch grid. Both mix task-relevant and task-irrelevant features. Object-centric slot representations are a structured alternative: they group features into a few p…

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