Anxing Xiao

Hypothesis-driven Model Expansion under Uncertainty for Open-World Robot Planning

Anxing Xiao, Hanbo Zhang, Tianrun Hu, David Hsu

Accepted to Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2026.

CANINE: Coaching Visually Impaired Users for Interactive Navigation with a Robot Guide Dog

Cunjun Yu, Zishuo Wang, Anxing Xiao, Linfeng Li, David Hsu

Accepted to Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2026.

From Obstacles to Etiquette: Robot Social Navigation with VLM-Informed Path Selection

Zilin Fang, Anxing Xiao, David Hsu, Gim Hee Lee

Accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2026.

Robot Operation of Home Appliances by Reading User Manuals

Jian Zhang, Hanbo Zhang, Anxing Xiao, David Hsu

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2025.

MimicFunc: Imitating Tool Manipulation from a Single Human Video via Functional Correspondence

Chao Tang, Anxing Xiao, Yuhong Deng, Tianrun Hu, Wenlong Dong, Hanbo Zhang, David Hsu, Hong Zhang

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2025.

CHD: Coupled Hierarchical Diffusion for Long-Horizon Tasks

Ce Hao, Anxing Xiao, Zhiwei Xue, Harold Soh

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2025.

GSON: A Group-based Social Navigation Framework with Large Multimodal Model

Shangyi Luo, Peng Sun, Ji Zhu, Yuhong Deng, Cunjun Yu, Anxing Xiao, Xueqian Wang

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2025.

Robi Butler: Multimodal Remote Interactions with a Household Robot Assistant

Anxing Xiao, Nuwan Janaka, Tianrun Hu, Anshul Gupta, Kaixin Li, Cunjun Yu, David Hsu

Accepted to IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025.

Octopi: Object Property Reasoning with Large Tactile-Language Models

Samson Yu, Kelvin Lin, Anxing Xiao, Jiafei Duan, and Harold Soh

Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2024.

Collaborative Trolley Transportation System with Autonomous Nonholonomic Robots

Bingyi Xia, Hao Luan, Ziqi Zhao, Xuheng Gao, Peijia Xie, Anxing Xiao, Jiankun Wang, Max Q-H Meng

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023.

Quadruped Guidance Robot for the Visually Impaired: A Comfort-Based Approach

Yanbo Chen, Zhengzhe Xu, Zhuozhu Jian, Gengpan Tang, Yunong Yangli, Anxing Xiao, Xueqian Wang, Bin Liang

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023.

Robotic Autonomous Trolley Collection with Progressive Perception and Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

Anxing Xiao*, Hao Luan*, Ziqi Zhao*, Yue Hong, Jieting Zhao, Jiankun Wang, Max Q-H Meng

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2022.

PUTN: A Plane-fitting based Uneven Terrain Navigation Framework

Zhuozhu Jian, Zihong Lu, Xiao Zhou, Bin Lan, Anxing Xiao, Xueqian Wang, Bin Liang

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2022.

Robotic Guide Dog: Leading Human with Leash-Guided Hybrid Physical Interaction

Anxing Xiao*, Wenzhe Tong*, Lizhi Yang*, Jun Zeng, Zhongyu Li and Koushil Sreenath

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2021.

This paper was the ICRA Best Paper Award Finalist for Service Robotics.

Autonomous Navigation with Optimized Jumping through Constrained Obstacles on Quadrupeds

Scott Gilroy, Derek Lau, Lizhi Yang, Ed Izaguirre, Kristen Biermayer, Anxing Xiao, Mengti Sun, Ayush Agrawal, Jun Zeng, Zhongyu Li, Koushil Sreenath

IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 2021.