Heng Zhang

According to our database, Heng Zhang authored at least 15 papers between 2024 and 2026.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of five.
• Erdős number of four.

2026

Learning Tactile-Aware Quadrupedal Loco-Manipulation Policies.

Pokuang Zhou, Yuhao Zhou, Quan Luu, Seungho Han, Heng Zhang, Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li, Arash Ajoudani, Zhengtong Xu, Yu She

CoRR, April, 2026

TacVLA: Contact-Aware Tactile Fusion for Robust Vision-Language-Action Manipulation.

Kaidi Zhang, Heng Zhang, Zhengtong Xu, Zhiyuan Zhang, Md Rakibul Islam Prince, Xiang Li, Xiaojing Han, Yuhao Zhou, Arash Ajoudani, Yu She

CoRR, March, 2026

Reward-Zero: Language Embedding Driven Implicit Reward Mechanisms for Reinforcement Learning.

Heng Zhang, Haddy Alchaer, Arash Ajoudani, Yu She

CoRR, March, 2026

Self-supervised Physics-Informed Manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects with Non-negligible Dynamics.

Youyuan Long, Gökhan Solak, Sara Zeynalpour, Heng Zhang, Arash Ajoudani

CoRR, February, 2026

AgenticLab: A Real-World Robot Agent Platform that Can See, Think, and Act.

Pengyuan Guo, Zhonghao Mai, Zhengtong Xu, Kaidi Zhang, Heng Zhang, Zichen Miao, Arash Ajoudani, Zachary Kingston, Qiang Qiu, Yu She

CoRR, February, 2026

CompliantVLA-adaptor: VLM-Guided Variable Impedance Action for Safe Contact-Rich Manipulation.

Heng Zhang, Wei-Hsing Huang, Qiyi Tong, Gökhan Solak, Puze Liu, Sheng Liu, Jan Peters, Arash Ajoudani

CoRR, January, 2026

2025

Safe Learning for Contact-Rich Robot Tasks: A Survey from Classical Learning-Based Methods to Safe Foundation Models.

Heng Zhang, Rui Dai, Gökhan Solak, Pokuang Zhou, Yu She, Arash Ajoudani

CoRR, December, 2025

OmniVIC: A Self-Improving Variable Impedance Controller with Vision-Language In-Context Learning for Safe Robotic Manipulation.

Heng Zhang, Wei-Hsing Huang, Gökhan Solak, Arash Ajoudani

CoRR, October, 2025

ActivePose: Active 6D Object Pose Estimation and Tracking for Robotic Manipulation.

Sheng Liu, Zhe Li, Weiheng Wang, Han Sun, Heng Zhang, Hongpeng Chen, Yusen Qin, Arash Ajoudani, Yizhao Wang

CoRR, September, 2025

Semantic Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: A Survey.

Kaiqi Chen, Junhao Xiao, Jialing Liu, Qiyi Tong, Heng Zhang, Ruyu Liu, Jianhua Zhang, Arash Ajoudani, Shengyong Chen

IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst., June, 2025

A Survey on Imitation Learning for Contact-Rich Tasks in Robotics.

Toshiaki Tsuji, Yasuhiro X. Kato, Gökhan Solak, Heng Zhang, Tadej Petric, Francesco Nori, Arash Ajoudani

CoRR, June, 2025

Scaling Laws of Scientific Discovery with AI and Robot Scientists.

Pengsong Zhang, Heng Zhang, Huazhe Xu, Renjun Xu, Zhenting Wang, Cong Wang, Animesh Garg, Zhibin Li, Arash Ajoudani, Xinyu Liu

CoRR, March, 2025

Bresa: Bio-inspired Reflexive Safe Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Robotic Tasks.

Heng Zhang, Gökhan Solak, Arash Ajoudani

CoRR, March, 2025

Towards Passive Safe Reinforcement Learning: A Comparative Study on Contact-rich Robotic Manipulation.

Heng Zhang, Gökhan Solak, Sebastian Hjorth, Arash Ajoudani

CoRR, March, 2025

2024

SRL-VIC: A Variable Stiffness-Based Safe Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Robotic Tasks.

Heng Zhang, Gökhan Solak, Gustavo J. G. Lahr, Arash Ajoudani

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., June, 2024