Publications

My research lies at the intersection of robotics, perception, control, and machine learning. Preprints and project notes are linked below.

Conference Papers


Real-time Rendering-based Surgical Instrument Tracking via Evolutionary Optimization

Published in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026, 2026

A real-time framework for jointly estimating surgical-instrument pose and visible joint configurations using CMA-ES and GPU-batched rendering.

Recommended citation: Hanyang Hu, Zekai Liang, Florian Richter, and Michael C. Yip. (2026). "Real-time Rendering-based Surgical Instrument Tracking via Evolutionary Optimization." IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
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