ICRA 2026
FlowBench: A Benchmark for Embodied Perceive–Plan–Act Systems
E. Vasquez, P. Raghavan, D. Okafor, S. Whitmore
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
A benchmark that evaluates perception, planning, and control together rather than in isolation, measuring how errors in one stage propagate through the full loop. Released with the FlowBench suite in our open-source repository.
IROS 2026
A Unified Token Interface for Perception, Planning, and Control
E. Vasquez, M. Lindqvist, Y. Tanaka
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
We study a single token vocabulary shared by all three stages of the loop, and what is gained — and lost — when perception, planning, and control read and write the same representation.
IROS 2025
Closing the Sim-to-Real Gap via Adversarial Domain Distillation
D. Okafor, Y. Tanaka, S. Whitmore
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
We treat the sim-to-real gap as an adversarial problem, distilling a policy through a discriminator that is trained to tell simulated rollouts from recorded hardware runs, and report transfer without task-specific tuning.
RSS 2024
Learning Reactive Whole-Body Control from Language-Conditioned Demonstrations
M. Lindqvist, E. Vasquez, Y. Tanaka
Robotics: Science and Systems
Whole-body policies learned from language-conditioned demonstration, retaining reactive behaviour so the robot can recover from disturbance instead of replanning from scratch.