publications

(*) denotes equal contribution

2026

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    CANINE: Coaching Visually Impaired Users for Interactive Navigation with a Robot Guide Dog
    Cunjun Yu, Zishuo Wang, Anxing Xiao, Linfeng Li, and David Hsu
    In Proc. Robotics: Science & Systems, 2026
    arXiv Website
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    Active Contact Sensing for Robust Robot-to-Human Object Handover
    Linfeng Li, Lin Shao, and David Hsu
    Preprint, 2026
    arXiv
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    Differentiable Contact Dynamics for Stable Object Placement Under Geometric Uncertainties
    Linfeng Li, Gang Yang, Lin Shao, and David Hsu
    IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters (RA-L), 2026 [ICRA2026 Oral]
    arXiv

2025

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    "Stack It Up!": 3D Stable Structure Generation from 2D Hand-drawn Sketch
    Yiqing Xu, Linfeng Li, Cunjun Yu, and David Hsu
    In Proc. Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2025 [Oral]
    arXiv
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    “Set It Up”: Functional Object Arrangement with Compositional Generative Models
    Yiqing Xu, Jiayuan Mao, Linfeng Li, Yilun Du, Tomas Lozano-Perez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, and David Hsu
    Int. J. Robotics Research (IJRR), 2025
    arXiv

2023

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    Benchmarking Deformable Object Manipulation with Differentiable Physics
    Siwei Chen*, Yiqing Xu*, Cunjun Yu*, Linfeng Li, Xiao Ma, Zhongwen Xu, and David Hsu
    In Proc. Int. Conf. on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023 [Notable Top 5%]
    arXiv Website

2022

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    COACH: Cooperative Robot Teaching
    Cunjun Yu, Yiqing Xu, Linfeng Li, and David Hsu
    In Proc. Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2022
    arXiv

2020

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    Operational Space Control Under Actuation Constraints Using Strictly Convex Optimization
    David J. Braun, Yuqing Chen, and Linfeng Li
    IEEE Trans. on Robotics (T-RO), 2020
    DOI

2019

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    Constrained Feedback Control by Prioritized Multi-objective Optimization
    Linfeng Li and David J. Braun
    In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2019
    DOI