Publications

Selected journal articles and conference presentations.

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Journal articles

2026

  1. Adv. Robot. Res. Figure from ChicGrasp: Imitation-Learning-Based Customized Dual-Jaw Gripper Control for Manipulation of Delicate, Irregular Bio-Products
    ChicGrasp: Imitation-Learning-Based Customized Dual-Jaw Gripper Control for Manipulation of Delicate, Irregular Bio-Products
    Amirreza Davar, Zhengtong Xu, Siavash Mahmoudi, Pouya Sohrabipour, Chaitanya Pallerla, Yu She, Wan Shou, Philip Glen Crandall, Dongyi Wang
    Advanced Robotics Research, 2026
    Paper ↗ Code ↗ Project ↗
    BibTeX 
    @article{davar2026chicgrasp,
  title = {ChicGrasp: Imitation-Learning-Based Customized Dual-Jaw Gripper Control for Manipulation of Delicate, Irregular Bio-Products},
  author = {Davar, Amirreza and Xu, Zhengtong and Mahmoudi, Siavash and Sohrabipour, Pouya and Pallerla, Chaitanya and She, Yu and Shou, Wan and Crandall, Philip Glen and Wang, Dongyi},
  journal = {Advanced Robotics Research},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1002/adrr.202500149},
  html = {https://doi.org/10.1002/adrr.202500149},
  code = {https://github.com/AmirrezaDavar/ChicGrasp},
  website = {https://amirrezadavar.github.io/ChicGrasp/},
  preview = {chicgrasp-journal.jpg},
  selected = {true},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  abbr = {Adv. Robot. Res.}
}
  2. Adv. Robot. Res. Figure from A State-Adaptive Koopman Control Framework for Real-Time Deformable Tool Manipulation in Robotic Environmental Swabbing
    A State-Adaptive Koopman Control Framework for Real-Time Deformable Tool Manipulation in Robotic Environmental Swabbing
    Siavash Mahmoudi, Amirreza Davar, Dongyi Wang
    Advanced Robotics Research, 2026
    Paper ↗ Preprint ↗
    BibTeX 
    @article{mahmoudi2026koopman,
  title = {A State-Adaptive Koopman Control Framework for Real-Time Deformable Tool Manipulation in Robotic Environmental Swabbing},
  author = {Mahmoudi, Siavash and Davar, Amirreza and Wang, Dongyi},
  journal = {Advanced Robotics Research},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1002/adrr.202500142},
  html = {https://doi.org/10.1002/adrr.202500142},
  arxiv = {2503.21491},
  preview = {contact-aware.jpg},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  abbr = {Adv. Robot. Res.}
}

2024

  1. Front. Robot. AI Figure from Leveraging Imitation Learning in Agricultural Robotics: A Comprehensive Survey and Comparative Analysis
    Leveraging Imitation Learning in Agricultural Robotics: A Comprehensive Survey and Comparative Analysis
    Siavash Mahmoudi, Amirreza Davar, Pouya Sohrabipour, Ramesh Bahadur Bist, Yang Tao, Dongyi Wang
    Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2024
    Paper ↗
    BibTeX 
    @article{mahmoudi2024survey,
  title = {Leveraging Imitation Learning in Agricultural Robotics: A Comprehensive Survey and Comparative Analysis},
  author = {Mahmoudi, Siavash and Davar, Amirreza and Sohrabipour, Pouya and Bist, Ramesh Bahadur and Tao, Yang and Wang, Dongyi},
  journal = {Frontiers in Robotics and AI},
  volume = {11},
  pages = {1441312},
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.3389/frobt.2024.1441312},
  html = {https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2024.1441312},
  preview = {imitation-learning-survey.jpg},
  selected = {true},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  abbr = {Front. Robot. AI}
}

Conference presentations

2025

  1. ICRA poster Figure from ChicGrasp: Imitation-Learning Control for Dual-Finger Manipulation of Delicate, Irregular, and Bio-products
    ChicGrasp: Imitation-Learning Control for Dual-Finger Manipulation of Delicate, Irregular, and Bio-products
    Amirreza Davar, Zhengtong Xu, Siavash Mahmoudi, Yu She, Wan Shou, Dongyi Wang
    International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), poster presentation, 2025
    Presentation record ↗
    BibTeX 
    @misc{davar2025chicgrasp_poster,
  title = {ChicGrasp: Imitation-Learning Control for Dual-Finger Manipulation of Delicate, Irregular, and Bio-products},
  author = {Davar, Amirreza and Xu, Zhengtong and Mahmoudi, Siavash and She, Yu and Shou, Wan and Wang, Dongyi},
  year = {2025},
  howpublished = {International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), poster presentation},
  note = {Poster presentation},
  html = {https://sfelab.uark.edu/proceedings-and-presentations/},
  preview = {chicgrasp-icra.jpg},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  abbr = {ICRA poster}
}