Yuze Cai

Yuze Cai

Hi! My name is Carey. I'm a Computer Engineering sophomore at JHU, fortunate to be mentored by Prof. Homanga Bharadhwaj in the B3 lab. My research and engineering interests span the full robotics stack: embedded systems, control, and, most recently, embodied intelligence. My current research focuses on the fundamental question of how we can extract force and physics knowledge scalably from cheap and accessible interaction videos. A tangential research question is how to design models and representations that capture this knowledge for downstream robotic tasks.

I've interned at Amazon Robotics, working on software infrastructure for human-robot packing systems deployed worldwide. I also had a great time researching at JHU IMERSE.

Publications

PokeBot: Physics-Ready Digital Twins from a Phone and a Poke

Yuze Cai, Zehao Wen, Justin Ely, Homanga Bharadhwaj

Paper coming soon

Keck DEIMOS Coadded SBF Spectroscopy of M81 Dwarf Satellite Galaxies

Y Cai, S Garg, L Bhardwaj, A Bhattacharya, et al.

American Astronomical Society Meeting, 2025 (Poster Presentation)

Selected Projects

6-DOF Robot Arm

Custom robot arm with gravity compensation, impedance control, drag-teach, and auto-calibration.

Python C++ Impedance Control MuJoCo
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robot-sysid

robot-sysid

Open-source tool for robotic arm system identification — solves for inertial parameters via spatial dynamics regressors on a rank-deficient system, reporting identifiable base parameters.

Python MuJoCo SymPy Spatial Dynamics
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Minmus Flight Computer

A custom flight computer for high-power rocketry, with I2C sensor fusion and BLDC motor control across three ESP32 boards.

FreeRTOS ESP32 PCB Design BLDC Control
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ViSA: Virtual Swashplate

Aircraft control system eliminating mechanical complexity through virtual swashplates.

32kHz ISR Sinusoidal Drive Fusion 360 C++
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SpinTOL UAV

Research and development of a highly efficient UAV utilizing spin-stabilized vertical takeoff and landing.

Fusion 360 Simulink Kalman Filter PID Control
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