Hello, I'm Hongbin (Ben) Lin

I am a Ph.D. student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong supervised by Prof. Kwok Wai Samuel Au. My research focus are reinforcement learning, surgical autonomy and robot dynamic modeling. I am interested in building pracitcal, robust, and general AI-based frameworks for robots.

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World Models for General Surgical Grasping

World Models for General Surgical Grasping

Hongbin Lin, Bin Li, Chun Wai Wong, Juan Rojas, Xiangyu Chu, Kwok Wai Samuel Au
Robotics Science and Systems (RSS), 2024

Grasping any surgical objects with high generality and robustness

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On the Monocular 3D Pose Estimation for Arbitrary Shaped Needle in Dynamic Scenes: An Efficient Visual Learning and Geometry Modeling Approach

On the Monocular 3D Pose Estimation for Arbitrary Shaped Needle in Dynamic Scenes: An Efficient Visual Learning and Geometry Modeling Approach

Bin Li, bo lu, Hongbin Lin, Yaxing Wang, Fangxun Zhong, Qi Dou, Yunhui Liu
IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 2024

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End-to-end learning of deep visuomotor policy for needle picking

End-to-end learning of deep visuomotor policy for needle picking

Hongbin Lin, Bin Li, Xiangyu Chu, Qi Dou, Yunhui Liu, Kwok Wai Samuel Au
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023

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Open-source High-precision Autonomous Suturing Framework With Visual Guidance

Open-source High-precision Autonomous Suturing Framework With Visual Guidance

Hongbin Lin, Bin Li, Yunhui Liu, Kwok Wai Samuel Au
IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Workshop, 2022

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Learning deep nets for gravitational dynamics with unknown disturbance through physical knowledge distillation: Initial feasibility study

Learning deep nets for gravitational dynamics with unknown disturbance through physical knowledge distillation: Initial feasibility study

Hongbin Lin, Qian Gao, Xiangyu Chu, Qi Dou, Anton Deguet, Peter Kazanzides, Kwok Wai Samuel Au
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021 (presented on ICRA 2021)

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A reliable gravity compensation control strategy for dVRK robotic arms with nonlinear disturbance forces

A reliable gravity compensation control strategy for dVRK robotic arms with nonlinear disturbance forces

Hongbin Lin, Chiu-Wai Vincent Hui, Yan, Wang, Anton Deguet, Peter Kazanzides, Kwok Wai Samuel Au
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019 (presented on IROS 2019)

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