Yan-Bin Jia
Associate Professor

Office: 207 Atanasoff Phone: (515) 294-2577 Fax: (515) 294-0258 Email: jia@cs.iastate.edu Homepage: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~jia

Biographical Sketch

Yan-Bin Jia is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University, where he has been teaching and conducting research in robotics and geometric computing since June 1999. He received an NSF CAREER Award (2002-2007) for his work on shape localization, recognition, and reconstruction through touch sensing. Yan-Bin obtained an M.S. and Ph.D. in Robotics from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a graduate student from September 1990 through December 1997. His B.S. was received from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), where he studied in the Special Class for the Gifted Young from 1984 to 1988.

Research Interests

Robotics and artificial intelligence, tactile shape recognition and reconstruction, geometric algorithms for curves and surfaces, localization and robot sensing, sensor implementation, nonlinear observation and control for robot dexterity, hacking robot interfaces, optimization, kinematics and dynamics of manipulation

Research Areas

Algorithms, Computational Geometry, Robotics

Research Statement

Statement of my research
Current activities in my lab
Publications

Education

Ph.D.   Carnegie Mellon University   1997
M.S.   Carnegie Mellon University   1993
B.S.   University of Science and Technology of China   1988

Honors and Awards

CAREER Award  National Science Foundation, 2002-2008

Finalist, Anton Philips Best Student Paper Award  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1998

Semi-Finalist, Best Paper Award  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1996

Current Grants

RI: Small: Robot Grasping of Deformable Objects. Yan-Bin Jia. NSF (2009-2012). $369,795.

Representative Publications

Refereed Journal and Conference Publications

Jiang Tian and Yan-Bin Jia. Modeling deformable shell-like objects grasped by a robot hand. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan, IEEE. pp. 1297-1302, Accepted, 2009.

Y.-B. Jia and J. Tian. Surface patch reconstruction from "one-dimensional" tactile data. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Accepted, 2008.

Yan-Bin Jia and Jiang Tian. Deformations of general parametric shells: computation and robot experiment. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Nice, France, IEEE. pp. 1796-1803, 2008.

Yan-Bin Jia, Matthew T. Mason, and Michael A. Erdmann. A state transition diagram for simultaneous collisions with application in billiard shooting. Eighth International Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, Guanajuato, Mexico, Accepted, 2008.

Rinat Ibrayev and Yan-Bin Jia. Surface recognition by registering data curves from touch. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, PRC, 2006.

Rinat Ibrayev and Yan-Bin Jia. Semi-differential invariants for tactile recognition of algebraic curves. International Journal of Robotics Research, Sage Publications, Inc. Vol. 24. No. 11. pp. 951-969, 2005.

Yan-Bin Jia. Localization of curved parts through continual touch. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE. Vol. 21. No. 4. pp. 726-733, 2005.

Liangchuan Mi and Yan-Bin Jia. High precision contour tracking with a joystick sensor. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sendai, Japan. pp. 804-809, 2004.

Yan-Bin Jia. Computation on parametric curves with an application in grasping. International Journal of Robotics Research, Sage Publications. Vol. 23. No. 7-8. pp. 825-855, 2004.

Yan-Bin Jia and Michael Erdmann. Pose and motion from contact. International Journal of Robotics Research. Vol. 18. No. 5. pp. 466-490, 1999.

Yan-Bin Jia and Michael Erdmann. Geometric sensing of known planar shapes. International Journal of Robotics Research. Vol. 15. No. 4. pp. 365-392, 1996.

Book Chapters

Yan-Bin Jia and Michael Erdmann. Local observability of rolling. In: Robotics: The Algorithmic Perspective (Ed. P.K. Agarwal et al.), A.K. Peters 1998.