Sha Yi / [Yisha] / 伊 莎

My research interest centers on designing and controlling novel robotic systems.

I am a Postdoc at UC San Diego working with Xiaolong Wang and Mike Tolley, exploring data-driven approaches for soft robot design. I completed my PhD from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University coadvised by Katia Sycara and Zeynep Temel. My research is supported by the CMU Presidential Fellowship (2020 - 2021). Prior to this, I received my MS degree from the same department with Katia Sycara. I completed my BEng in Electronics and Information Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

• [2024/5] We organized a workshop at ICRA 2024 on Unconventional Robots: Universal Lessons for Designing Unique Systems! See more on Twitter.

ACE: A Cross‑platform Visual‑Exoskeletons for Low‑Cost Dexterous Teleoperation

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2024

Shiqi Yang, Minghuan Liu, Yuzhe Qin, Runyu Ding, Jialong Li, Xuxin Cheng, Ruihan Yang, Sha Yi, Xiaolong Wang

[webpage] [video] [pdf] [code] [hardware]

Decentralized Multi‑Robot Line‑of‑Sight Connectivity Maintenance under Uncertainty

Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2024

Yupeng Yang, Yiwei Lyu, Yanze Zhang, Sha Yi and Wenhao Luo

[pdf]

Enhancing Heterogeneous Swarm Locomotion Through Simple 1-DOF Arm Mechanisms

International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), 2024

James Clinton, Sha Yi, Zeynep Temel

Also presented at Workshop in Tensegrity Robots, IROS, 2023, Best Demo Award

Reconfigurable Robot Control Using Flexible Coupling Mechanisms

Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2023

Sha Yi, Katia Sycara, Zeynep Temel

[pdf] [code] [video]

Configuration Control for Physical Coupling of Heterogeneous Robot Swarms

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022

Sha Yi, Zeynep Temel, Katia Sycara

[pdf] [code] [video] [supplement video]

PuzzleBots: Physical Coupling of Robot Swarms

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021

Sha Yi, Zeynep Temel, Katia Sycara

[pdf] [how to build them] [video]

Distributed Topology Correction for Flexible Connectivity Maintenance in Multi-Robot Systems

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021

Sha Yi, Wenhao Luo, Katia Sycara

[pdf]

Indoor Pursuit-Evasion with Hybrid Hierarchical Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes for Multi-Robot Systems

International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), 2018