SafePBDS — project website

Project page for "Safe and Steerable Geometric Motion Policies for Robotic Dexterous Manipulation" (Wu, Bonalli, Lew, Liu).

Static site (plain HTML/CSS), intended to be served from GitHub Pages at tml.stanford.edu/safe-pbds. The template is adapted from NeRFies / PerAct / DexCap.

Structure

index.html                     # the whole page
assets/css, fonts, fontawesome # styling + Source Serif/Sans + icon fonts
assets/images/                 # figures (PDF figures rasterized to PNG) + photos
assets/images/video_placeholder.png  # poster shown until real videos are added
assets/videos/                 # web clips (built by scripts/build_videos.sh)
scripts/build_videos.sh        # transcodes source footage -> assets/videos/
scripts/placeholder.svg        # source of the placeholder poster
ADDING_VIDEOS.md               # how to populate the videos

Preview locally

python3 -m http.server 8000     # then open http://localhost:8000

(Re)build the videos

The web clips in assets/videos/ are already built and committed. To regenerate or update them from the source footage, see ADDING_VIDEOS.md:

bash scripts/build_videos.sh            # idempotent; --force to rebuild

Deploy to GitHub Pages

1. Commit everything (including assets/videos/ once built) and push to Stanford-TML/safe-pbds.
2. Repo Settings → Pages → Build and deployment → Deploy from a branch, branch main, folder / (root).
3. .nojekyll (already present) tells Pages to serve the files as-is.
4. For the tml.stanford.edu/safe-pbds URL, the project page is reached via the org/custom-domain setup of Stanford-TML; all asset paths here are relative, so the site works whether it is served from the domain root or a /safe-pbds/ subpath.

TODO before launch

• arXiv ID — replace XXXX.XXXXX in index.html (arXiv button + BibTeX).
• Author links — fill the href="#" homepage links in the author list.
• Affiliations — verify the affiliation line (currently best-guess; Stanford for Wu & Liu, Paris-Saclay/CNRS/CentraleSupélec for Bonalli, Google DeepMind for Lew).
• Code button — currently "Coming soon"; point it at the repo when public.
• Videos — built and committed (rebuild with scripts/build_videos.sh).