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    News
     
       
        2025-09: My team won The First Place 🏆 in CVPR 2025 Embodied AI Workshop
      
      
        2025-05: My team won The First Place 🏆 in ICRA 2025 What Bimanuals Can Do (WBCD) Challenge
      
      
        2025-03: My team won the Champion 🏆 in ManiSkill-ViTac 2025: Challenge on Manipulation Skill Learning With Vision and Tactile Sensing
      
      
        2024-07: GuassianGrasper was accepted to RA-L
      
      
        2024-02: Block-Map-Based Localization in Large-Scale Environment was  accepted to ICRA 2024
      
    
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    Research Interests
     
        
        🤖Robotics
      
       
        Embodied AI
      
       
        Manipulation
      
       
        VLA
      
       
        Tactile
      
       
        Mapping and Navigation
      
    
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    Education
      
	
		
		
			
			 
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				 the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)  
  
				Master of Philosophy (General) (2025.9 - present) 
         
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				 Liverpool John Moores University, UK  
  
				B.E Electrical and Electronic Engineering (2019-2023)  
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    Research Experience
  
	
		
		
			
			 
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				 TARS Technology (Shanghai) Co., LTD. 
  
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				 Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University
  
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				 GAIRLAB, City University of Hong Kong (CityU)
  
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				 EncoSmart Technology (Beijing) Co., LTD
  
				 Research Intern
         
        
        (2023.11 - 2024.2, 2024.7 - 2024.11)  
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        RoboGEM: Learning Language-guided Robotic Manipulation via Generalizable and Efficient Feature Distillation
         
         
          Chunzheng Wang,
          Yuhang Zheng,
          Xiangyu Chen,
          Weize Li,
          Songen Gu,
          Yupeng Zheng. 
         
        ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM) 2025
        
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      GaussianGrasper: 3D Language Gaussian Splatting for Open-vocabulary Robotic Grasping
       
        Yuhang Zheng,
        Xiangyu Chen,
        Yupeng Zheng,
        Songen Gu,
        Runyi Yang,
        Bu Jin,
        Pengfei Li,
        Chengliang Zhong,
        Zengmao Wang,
        Lina Liu,
        Chao Yang,
        Dawei Wang,
        Zhen Chen,
        Xiaoxiao Long†, 
        Meiqing Wang†.
       
      RA-L, 2024
       
      Homepage ·
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      We introduced GaussianGrasper, a robot grasping system implemented by a 3D Gaussian field endowed with open-vocabulary semantics and accurate geometry that is capable of rapid updates to support open-world robotic grasping guided by language. 	
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      Block-Map-Based Localization in Large-Scale Environment
       
        Yixiao Feng,
        Zhou Jiang,
        Yongliang Shi,
        Yunlong Feng,
        Xiangyu Chen,
        Hao Zhao,
        Guyue Zhou.
       
      ICRA 2024
       
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      we propose a localization system based on
        Block Maps (BMs) to reduce the computational load caused by
        maintaining large-scale maps. 	
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                Humanoid Unitree G1 RL locomotion
               
               
                  Xiangyu Chen (Independent Project)
                   
                    Algorithm: Reinforcement Learning (PPO) 
                    Simulation: Isaac Gym, Mujoco 
                    I implemented reinforcement learning (PPO) algorithm using the rsl_rl library and Isaac Gym to train locomotion policy, and use Mujoco Simulation to test the policy 
                   
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                ICRA 2025 What Bimanuals Can Do (WBCD) Challenge
               
               
               Hierarchical Bimanual Manipulation Policy for Dining Room Service
               
               
                  Weize Li,
                  Zhengxiao Han, 
                  Lixin Xu, 
                  Xiangyu Chen, 
                  Harrison Bounds, 
                  Chenrui Zhang, 
                  Yifan Xu, 
                  
                   
                  
                    ICRA 2025
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                    The First Place (Certificate)
                     
                     
                    Media: 甲子光年 | 36氪 | 机器之心 | 量子位 | ARX方舟无限
                  
                   
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               ManiSkill-ViTac 2025: Challenge on Manipulation Skill Learning With Vision and Tactile Sensing
              
            
              Champion 🏆 in Track 2: Tactile-Vision-Fusion Manipulation (Certificate)  
              The First Place 🏆 in CVPR 2025 Embodied AI Workshop(Certificate)  
              TARS-STEIIA Team
              Team Leader:  Ruihai Wu 
              Instructor: Xiaoxiao Long 
              Members 
              Xiang Xiao*, Yuxing Qin*, 
              Yuhang Zheng*, 
              Xiangyu Chen 
               
               
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                Mobile Manipulation with Imitation Learning
                 GAIRLAB, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) 
              Kaixin Chai, 
              Xiangyu Chen, 
              Yufeng Li, 
              Peng Yin*
               
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                Imitation Learning(ACT) 
                Data Collection by Teleoperation System 
                Whole-Body Control 
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              Wheel-legged Robot dynamics obstacle avoidance
     
     
            Xiangyu Chen, 
            Yufeng Li(Hardware Design)
     
     
              🎬Video
     
     
              Contribution: 
               
              Lidar-based SLAM (Cartographer)   
              Navigation (A* and TEB) 
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              Wheel-legged Robot static obstacle avoidance
   
   
        Xiangyu Chen, 
        Yufeng Li(Hardware Design)
   
   
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            Contribution: 
            Lidar-based SLAM (Cartographer)   
            Navigation (A* and TEB) 
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                Navigation in 3D Large-Scale Environment
		 
              DISCOVER Lab, AIR, Tsinghua University  
              Xiangyu Chen,
              Yixiao Feng,
                Yunlong Feng,
                Yongliang Shi,
                Guyue Zhou
               
              
              Lidar-based SLAM (LIO-SAM) 
              block-based-localizaton
              Navigation (A* and TEB) 
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              Leader-Follower Multi-Agent Swarm (Sim2Real Transfer)
     
           
            Zhengxiao Han, 
            Jingtian Deng, 
            Chenghao Lin, 
            Xiangyu Chen, 
            Tianao Ren
            Guyue Zhou
     
              Lidar-based SLAM (Cartographer)   
              Pure Pursuit algorithm 
              High stability and obstacle avoidance ability 
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                Dynamics Obstacles Avoidance Indoor
		 
                DISCOVER Lab, AIR, Tsinghua University  
                Xiangyu Chen,
                Zhengxiao Han,
                Yixiao Feng,
                Guyue Zhou.
                     
              
              Lidar-based SLAM (Cartographer), Vision-based SLAM (ORB_SLAM, RTAB_MAP) 
              Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) 
              Navigation (A* and TEB)  
            
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                Cyberdog Navigation in indoor environment
		 
                DISCOVER Lab, AIR, Tsinghua University  
                Xiangyu Chen,
                Zhengxiao Han,
                Guyue Zhou
                 
                 
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                Lidar-based SLAM (Cartographer) 
                Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) 
                Navigation (A* and TEB)  
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                Cyberdog SLAM in indoor environment
		 
                DISCOVER Lab, AIR, Tsinghua University  
                Xiangyu Chen,
                Zhengxiao Han,
                Guyue Zhou
                 
                 
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                Lidar-based SLAM (Cartographer) 
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                End-to-end Visual Navigation
		 
                DISCOVER Lab, AIR, Tsinghua University  
                Guan Wang,
                Haoyi Niu,
                Xiangyu Chen,
                Guyue Zhou
                 
                 
                🎬Video
                Reinforcement Learning 
                Sim2Real 
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                  Simulation
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                    Slave Obstacle Avoidance
                     
                     
                    Gazebo
                     
                     
                    Jingtian Deng,
                    Xiangyu Chen, 
                    Guyue Zhou
                   
                   
                  Artificial Potential Field Method
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                    Wheeled-Legged Navigation
                     
                     
                    Isaac Sim
                     
                     
                    Zhengxiao Han, 
                    Xiangyu Chen, 
                    Guyue Zhou
                   
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              Cooperation with iFytek: VLM for Mobile Manipulation
     
     
            Pengfei Li,
             Xiangyu Chen, 
     
     
              🎬Video
     
              The industrial compound mobile robot, enhanced by the capabilities of the Antelope Industrial Large Model in understanding computations, generating industrial code, and processing industrial text, can perform task comprehension, decomposition, instruction generation, and other operations through applications such as industrial task splitting, path code planning, and industrial object detection and image segmentation within a natural language interaction model. This further enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of industrial robots.
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              Baidu Apollo V2X Vehicle-Road Cooperative Technology Model Construction and Validation
     
     
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            Contribution & Results: we developed a safety model based on two scenarios: ring road conflicts and unprotected left turns, and evaluated the safety performances in both individual vehicle intelligence and V2X scenarios. The results indicate that V2X improved safety metrics by 30% to 90%. 
             
            Result: In collaboration with Baidu, contributed to the release of the first Chinese white paper on vehicle-road cooperative technology: Key technologies and prospects of vehicle-road collaboration for autonomous driving. 
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              Awards
               
                  
                  City Special Prize, "Unbounded·2023 Shanghai International Student (Nationalized University Students) Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition"
                
                 
                  City Top 10, Best Popularity Award, Second and Third Prizes, 2020、2022 China-U.S. Maker Competition (Shanghai Regional)
                
                 
                  Third Prize, 2021 Cross-Strait Maker Competition National Finals
                
                 
                  City Second and Third Prizes, 2019、2022 Shanghai College Student Maker Competition
                
                 
                  First Prize (National Level), 2017 International Youth Innovation Design Competition China Region
                
              
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            Hobbies
             
              Outside of research, I enjoy playing basketball.
             
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