CS Professor Wenzhen Yuan presented "Doorbot: Closed-Loop Task Planning and Manipulation for Door Opening in the Wild with Haptic Feedback" at ICRA 2025 in Atlanta, GA. Doorbot, as the name suggests, is a hierarchical control framework that enables robots to explore and open various unseen doors in the wild. The team tested the system on 20 previously untested doors across different buildings, with diverse appearances and mechanical types. Watch Doorbot in action.
Doorbot, as the name suggests, is a hierarchical control framework that enables robots to explore and open different unseen doors in the wild. The team tested the system on 20 unseen doors across different buildings on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus, with diverse appearances and mechanical types. Doorbot achieves a 90% success rate, demonstrating the ability to generalize and robustly handle varied door-opening tasks.
Grainger Engineering Affiliations
Wenzhen Yuan is an Illinois Grainger Engineering professor of computer science.