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Publications (13)

cs.RO2025

AnyNav: Visual Neuro-Symbolic Friction Learning for Off-road Navigation

Taimeng Fu, Zitong Zhan, Zhipeng Zhao +7

Off-road navigation is critical for a wide range of field robotics applications from planetary exploration to disaster response. However, it remains a longstanding challenge due to…

cs.RO2025

Imperative Learning: A Self-supervised Neuro-Symbolic Learning Framework for Robot Autonomy

Chen Wang, Kaiyi Ji, Junyi Geng +16

Data-driven methods such as reinforcement and imitation learning have achieved remarkable success in robot autonomy. However, their data-centric nature still hinders them from gene…

cs.RO2026

Neuro-Symbolic Learning for Long-Horizon Task Planning Under Complex Logical Constraints

Qiwei Du, Zitong Zhan, Shaoshu Su +7

Task planning often suffers from severe efficiency bottlenecks when robots must reason over long-horizon action sequences under complex logical constraints, including object afford…

cs.RO2026

Learning When to Jump for Off-road Navigation

Zhipeng Zhao, Taimeng Fu, Shaoshu Su +5

Low speed does not always guarantee safety in off-road driving. For instance, crossing a ditch may be risky at a low speed due to the risk of getting stuck, yet safe at a higher sp…

cs.RO2024

PhysORD: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Physics-infused Motion Prediction in Off-road Driving

Zhipeng Zhao, Bowen Li, Yi Du +2

Motion prediction is critical for autonomous off-road driving, however, it presents significantly more challenges than on-road driving because of the complex interaction between th…

cs.RO2026

Fast Task Planning with Neuro-Symbolic Relaxation

Qiwei Du, Bowen Li, Yi Du +5

Real-world task planning requires long-horizon reasoning over large sets of objects with complex relationships and attributes, leading to a combinatorial explosion for classical sy…

cs.RO2022

Targetless Extrinsic Calibration of Stereo Cameras, Thermal Cameras, and Laser Sensors in the Wild

Taimeng Fu, Huai Yu, Wen Yang +2

The fusion of multi-modal sensors has become increasingly popular in autonomous driving and intelligent robots since it can provide richer information than any single sensor, enhan…

cs.RO2023

PyPose: A Library for Robot Learning with Physics-based Optimization

Chen Wang, Dasong Gao, Kuan Xu +34

Deep learning has had remarkable success in robotic perception, but its data-centric nature suffers when it comes to generalizing to ever-changing environments. By contrast, physic…

cs.RO2024

iSLAM: Imperative SLAM

Taimeng Fu, Shaoshu Su, Yiren Lu +1

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) stands as one of the critical challenges in robot navigation. A SLAM system often consists of a front-end component for motion estimati…

cs.RO2026

VL-Nav: Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning-based Vision-Language Navigation

Yi Du, Taimeng Fu, Zhipeng Zhao +6

Navigating unseen, large-scale environments based on complex and abstract human instructions remains a formidable challenge for autonomous mobile robots. Addressing this requires r…

cs.RO2023

PyPose v0.6: The Imperative Programming Interface for Robotics

Zitong Zhan, Xiangfu Li, Qihang Li +33

PyPose is an open-source library for robot learning. It combines a learning-based approach with physics-based optimization, which enables seamless end-to-end robot learning. It has…

cs.RO2025

iWalker: Imperative Visual Planning for Walking Humanoid Robot

Xiao Lin, Yuhao Huang, Taimeng Fu +2

Humanoid robots, designed to operate in human-centric environments, serve as a fundamental platform for a broad range of tasks. Although humanoid robots have been extensively studi…

cs.CV2026

Vision-Language Memory for Spatial Reasoning

Zuntao Liu, Yi Du, Taimeng Fu +3

Spatial reasoning is a critical capability for intelligent robots, yet current vision-language models (VLMs) still fall short of human-level performance in video-based spatial reas…