🔬 University#162 Los Angeles, United States· Est. 1881
USC Robotics Research Laboratory
University research program at USC Viterbi School of Engineering developing space robotics systems including docking mechanisms and rendezvous operations. Conducts experimental space payload development.
space roboticsdocking systemsproximity operationsmanipulation
Notable achievements
CLINGERS docking system, REACCH payload
Notable work
CLINGERS experimental payloadREACCH system
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
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Design and dynamic performance prediction of a novel large-aperture offset-feed deployable antenna
Chuang Shi, Tianming Liu, Ning Xue +6 more
Aerospace Science and Technology · 2026
MANIPULATION
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A hierarchical approach to imitation learning for manipulation tasks requiring time varying forces
Rishabh Shukla, Adithya Santhosh, Shaili Gandhi +2 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
How VLAs Fail Differently: Black-Box Action Monitoring Reveals Architecture-Specific Failure Signatures
Krishnam Gupta
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
What Frozen VLAs Already Know About Success: A Probing Study of Value-Like Structure in Foundation Robot Policies
Jiachen Zhang, Junnan Nie, Junyi Lao +4 more
2026
PERCEPTION
Open access
OSMa-Bench++: Toward Open-Ended Benchmarking of Semantic Mapping for Manipulation with Prompt-Generated Synthetic Scenes
Regina Kurkova, Maxim Popov, Sergey Kolyubin
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
EXPO-FT: Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Finetuning for Vision-Language-Action Models
Perry Dong, Kuo-Han Hung, Tian Gao +2 more
2026