WBCD Competition at ICRA 2025
Overview
Represented Purdue MARS lab in the ICRA 2025 WBCD competition and won 3rd place in the Logistics Packing track, along with a $5,000 prize. News
Reward Highlights
Key Contributions
- Proposed and led the accepted project “A Visuo-tactile Diffusion Policy Architecture for Multimodal Imitation Learning” (Proposal PDF), among 88 global submissions, with only 15 teams selected as finalists.
- Coordinated overall team efforts, managed communication with competition organizers, and successfully applied for a travel grant to support team participation.
- Contributed to real-world bimanual manipulation dataset collection in Zarr format; validated data quality via Rerun visualization and trained diffusion policies on the Gilbreth cluster.
- Designed and prototyped custom mechanical connectors in CAD, facilitating modular integration of multiple robotic arms, cameras, and grippers of heterogeneous models.
- Developed a ROS 1 teleoperation interface for Meta Quest 3 → Galaxea A1 robotic arm, enabling teleoperation as a backup plan.