Publications

2026

1. 

   Two2Four: Generative Quadruped Puppeteering from Human Motion

   Fatemeh Zargarbashi, Zehong Qiu, Dhruv Agrawal, and 4 more authors

   ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 2026

2. 

   VQ-Style: Disentangling Style and Content in Motion with Residual Quantized Representations

   Fatemeh Zargarbashi, Dhruv Agrawal, Jakob Buhmann, and 3 more authors

   Computer Graphics Forum, Eurographics, 2026

   arXiv Video

3. 

   Switch-JustDance: Benchmarking Whole-Body Motion Tracking Controllers Using a Commercial Console Game

   Jeonghwan Kim, Wontaek Kim, Yidan Lu, and 8 more authors

   Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Findings, 2026

   arXiv Website

4. 

   APEX: Action Priors Enable Efficient Exploration for Robust Motion Tracking on Legged Robots

   Shivam Sood, Laukik Nakhwa, Sun Ge, and 7 more authors

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

   arXiv Website

5. 

   Teaching Robots Like Dogs: Learning Agile Navigation from Luring, Gesture, and Speech

   Taerim Yoon, Dongho Kang, Jin Cheng, and 5 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.08422, 2026

   arXiv

2025

1. 

   Whole-Body Inverse Dynamics MPC for Legged Loco-Manipulation

   Lukas Molnar, Jin Cheng, Gabriele Fadini, and 3 more authors

   IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025

   arXiv Website Video

2. 

   Learning Steerable Imitation Controllers from Unstructured Animal Motions

   Dongho Kang, Jin Cheng, Fatemeh Zargarbashi, and 3 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.00677, 2025

   arXiv Website Video

3. 

   Learning to Walk in Costume: Adversarial Motion Priors for Aesthetically Constrained Humanoids

   Arturo Flores Alvarez, Fatemeh Zargarbashi, Havel Liu, and 7 more authors

   IEEE-RAS 24th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2025

   arXiv

2024

1. 

   RobotKeyframing: Learning Locomotion with High-Level Objectives via Mixture of Dense and Sparse Rewards

   Fatemeh Zargarbashi, Jin Cheng, Dongho Kang, and 2 more authors

   8th Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2024

   arXiv Video

2. 

   MetaLoco: Universal Quadrupedal Locomotion with Meta-Reinforcement Learning and Motion Imitation

   Fatemeh Zargarbashi, Fabrizio Di Giuro, Jin Cheng, and 3 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.17502, 2024

   arXiv Video

3. 

   Deep Compliant Control for Legged Robots

   Adrian Hartmann, Dongho Kang, Fatemeh Zargarbashi, and 2 more authors

   IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024

   PDF Video

4. 

   Quadcopter Stability: The Effects of CoM, Dihedral Angle and Its Uncertainty

   Fatemeh Zargarbashi, Amin Talaeizadeh, Hossein Nejat Pishkenari, and 1 more author

   Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Mechanical Engineering, 2024

2023

1. 

   Rl+ model-based control: Using on-demand optimal control to learn versatile legged locomotion

   Dongho Kang, Jin Cheng, Miguel Zamora, and 2 more authors

   IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023

   PDF Video

2022

1. 

   Simulation and fabrication of soft robots with embedded skeletons

   James M Bern, Fatemeh Zargarbashi, Annan Zhang, and 2 more authors

   International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022

   PDF

2021

1. Design and implementation of a novel over-actuated quadrotor with variable dihedral angle

   Mohammadhosein HajiAbedini, Fatemeh Zargarbashi, Amin Talaeizadeh, and 2 more authors

   9th RSI international conference on robotics and mechatronics (ICRoM), 2021

2020

1. An Experimental Study on the Design & Construction of a Torque Measurement Unit with Tactile Sensors

   Fatemeh Zargarbashi, Hamed Nazemi Harandi, Amin Hamed, and 1 more author

   28th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE), 2020