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Anh Duc Tran

Projects

Robotics projects across learning, hardware, perception, and control.

2026

  • Robot learning · 2026

    Ukemi-SafeFall

    Teaching a humanoid robot to fall like a martial artist: rolling to soften the impact, then getting back up on its own.

    Reinforcement learning · Humanoids · Safe falling · Motion priors · Sim-to-real

  • Hardware · 2026

    ForteGrip

    A compact robotic gripper designed to handle both fragile and heavy objects while remaining highly backdrivable.

    Mechanical design · Manipulation · Backdrivability · FEA

  • Embedded · 2026

    Teensy–Robstride Bridge

    A hardware and software bridge that lets a PC reliably control multiple robot motors over Ethernet.

    Teensy 4.1 · UDP · CAN · Robstride O2 · C++

2025

  • Robot learning · 2025

    Reinforcement Learning for Quadruped Walking

    Training a four-legged robot to walk smoothly across different terrain in simulation, then deploying the learned controller on a real Unitree Go1.

    Reinforcement learning · Isaac Lab · Locomotion · Sim-to-real

  • Perception · 2025

    Vision-Based Human-Following Robot

    A mobile robot that detects a person, follows them at a safe distance, avoids obstacles, and can switch modes using hand gestures.

    YOLOv5 · RGB-D · LiDAR · MediaPipe · Robot control

2023

  • Manipulation · 2023

    Plastic Bottle Sorting with 6DOF Arm

    A 6-axis robot arm that detects plastic bottles on a moving conveyor, tracks them, and picks them up with a custom gripper.

    Mask R-CNN · Object tracking · Motion planning · Gripper design

  • Competition · 2023

    Ball-Picking Robot

    A robot built in a 10-day competition that autonomously detects, picks up, aims, and throws colored balls. Our team finished second overall.

    OpenCV · Embedded C · Autonomous control · 10-day build