Sihang Yang

HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Wuhan, China

I am a Ph.D. candidate in robotics, focusing on robot learning, vision-language-action models, and deformable object manipulation. My research combines imitation learning, differentiable simulation, model-based control, and real-world robotic system integration. Recently, I have been working on VLA post-training and continuous robot execution, with the goal of developing robust and generalizable policies for complex manipulation tasks.

projects

Soft Tissue Cutting

Pi0.5 Post-train

selected publications

IEEE RA-L

Autonomous Laparoscope Control for Minimally Invasive Surgery With Intuition and RCM Constraints

Sihang Yang, Yiwei Wang, Huan Zhao, and 2 more authors

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022

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@article{yang2022autonomous,
  title = {Autonomous Laparoscope Control for Minimally Invasive Surgery With Intuition and RCM Constraints},
  author = {Yang, Sihang and Wang, Yiwei and Zhao, Huan and Cheng, Haoyuan and Ding, Han},
  journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
  volume = {7},
  number = {3},
  pages = {7934--7941},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/LRA.2022.3186507}
}

IEEE T-ASE

Task-Adaptive Analytical Affordance Estimation for Feature-Based Manipulation of Soft Tissues in Robotic Surgery

Sihang Yang, Yuheng Wang, Yiwei Wang, and 2 more authors

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2026

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@article{yang2026task,
  author = {Yang, Sihang and Wang, Yuheng and Wang, Yiwei and Zhao, Huan and Ding, Han},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering},
  title = {Task-Adaptive Analytical Affordance Estimation for Feature-Based Manipulation of Soft Tissues in Robotic Surgery},
  year = {2026},
  volume = {23},
  number = {},
  pages = {1301-1314},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/TASE.2025.3642182}
}

IEEE ICRA

Autonomous Bimanual Manipulation of Deformable Objects Using Deep Reinforcement Learning Guided Adaptive Control

Jiayi Liu, Sihang Yang, Yiwei Wang, and 2 more authors

In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025

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@inproceedings{liu2025autonomous,
  title = {Autonomous Bimanual Manipulation of Deformable Objects Using Deep Reinforcement Learning Guided Adaptive Control},
  author = {Liu, Jiayi and Yang, Sihang and Wang, Yiwei and Zhao, Huan and Ding, Han},
  booktitle = {2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  pages = {6904--6910},
  year = {2025},
  organization = {IEEE},
}