Publications (See Google Scholar for more updated list)

2025

Robi Butler: Remote Multimodal Interactions with 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.

2024

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.

2023

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.

2022

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.

2021

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.

* co-first author