About
I am a 2nd-year Ph.D student (Spring 2019-) at the Robot and Protein Kinematic Lab, Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR), Johns Hopkins University. My advisor is Prof. Gregory S. Chirikjian. Previously, I obtained my B.Eng in Power Engineering from Beihang University in 2017 and M.S.E in Robotics from Johns Hopkins University in 2019.
My primary research interests are on robot perception, simulation, object affordance, and robot learning.
Email (hwu67 at jhu dot edu)
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2020/11–Our paper on robot imagination of containability affordance has been accepted to RA-L! Paper link here.
2020/10–Our paper on efficient reinforcement learning is featured on JHU HUB. Check it out!
2020/07–Our paper on efficient reinforcement learning has been accepted to RA-L and IROS 2020. Paper link here.
2020/02–I passed my Graduate Board Oral (GBO) examination.
2020/01–Our paper on robot imagination of chair affordance has been accepted to ICRA 2020. Paper link here.
2019/09–I passed my Departmental Qualifying Examination (DQE).
2019/08–Our paper on vision system for malaria vaccine automation has been accepted to CASE 2019.
Selected Publication
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Can I Pour into It? Robot Imagining Open Containability Affordance of Previously Unseen Objects via Physical Simulations
Hongtao Wu, Greogry S. Chirikjian
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter (RA-L)
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“Good Robot!”: Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Step Visual Tasks with Sim to Real Transfer
Andrew Hundt, Benjamin Killeen, Nicholas Greene, Hongtao Wu, Heeyeon Kwon, Chris Paxton, Gregory D. Hager
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter (RA-L)
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2020
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Is That a Chair? Imagining Affordances Using Simulations of an Articulated Human Body
Hongtao Wu, Deven Misra, Gregory S. Chirikjian
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2020
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Multi-mosquito object detection and 2D pose estimation for automation of PfSPZ malaria vaccine production
Hongtao Wu, Jiteng Mu, Ting Da, Mengdi Xu, Russell H. Taylor, Iulian Iordachita, Gregory S. Chirikjian
IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 2019
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