Selected Publications

Interactive world simulator for robot policy training and evaluation

Wang, Y., Syed, R., Wu, F., Zhang, M., Onol, A., Barreiros, J., Nayyeri, H., Dear, T., Zhang, H. and Li, Y., 2026. Interactive world simulator for robot policy training and evaluation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.08546. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08546

Deepcollide: Scalable data-driven high dof configuration space modeling using implicit neural representations

Guo, G., Goldfeder, J., Ray, A., Dear, T. and Lipson, H., 2025. Deepcollide: Scalable data-driven high dof configuration space modeling using implicit neural representations. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (pp. 2689-2699). https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2025W/E2E3D/html/Guo_DeepCollide_Scalable_Data-Driven_High_DoF_Configuration_Space_Modeling_using_Implicit_ICCVW_2025_paper.html

Detecting and Exploiting Symmetry to Accelerate Reinforcement Learning

Pujari, A., Lin, H., Neal, W.L., Dear, T. and Kelly, S.D., 2023. Detecting and Exploiting Symmetry to Accelerate Reinforcement Learning. In 2023 Proceedings of the Conference on Control and its Applications (CT) (pp. 103-110). Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. https://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/1.9781611977745.14

Deep reinforcement learning for snake robot locomotion

Shi, J., Dear, T. and Kelly, S.D., 2020. Deep reinforcement learning for snake robot locomotion. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 53(2), pp.9688-9695. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08546

Geometric motion planning for a three-link swimmer in a three-dimensional low Reynolds-number regime

Grover, J., Zimmer, J., Dear, T., Travers, M., Choset, H. and Kelly, S.D., 2018, June. Geometric motion planning for a three-link swimmer in a three-dimensional low Reynolds-number regime. In 2018 annual american control conference (ACC) (pp. 6067-6074). IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8431828

Kinematic cartography and the efficiency of viscous swimming

Hatton, R.L., Dear, T. and Choset, H., 2017. Kinematic cartography and the efficiency of viscous swimming. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 33(3), pp.523-535. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7859387