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Kaixian Qu

4 accepted papers

2026

A Pragmatist Robot: Learning to Plan Tasks by Experiencing the Real World

RA-L 2026

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as the dominant paradigm for robotic task planning using natural language instructions. However, trained on general internet data, LLMs are not inherently aligned with the embodiment, skill sets, and limitations of real-world robotic systems. Inspired by the

Cited by 2SourcecodeScholar
2026

FunFact: Building Probabilistic Functional 3D Scene Graphs via Factor-Graph Reasoning

CVPR 2026

Recent work in 3D scene understanding is moving beyond purely spatial analysis toward functional scene understanding. However, existing methods often consider functional relationships between object pairs in isolation, failing to capture the scene-wide interdependence that humans use to resolve ambi

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Learning Accurate Whole-body Throwing with High-frequency Residual Policy and Pullback Tube Acceleration

IROS 2025

Throwing is a fundamental skill that enables robots to manipulate objects in ways that extend beyond the reach of their arms. We present a control framework that combines learning and model-based control for prehensile whole-body throwing with legged mobile manipulators. Our framework consists of th

Cited by 5SourceScholar
2024

Tag Map: A Text-Based Map for Spatial Reasoning and Navigation with Large Language Models

CoRL 2024poster

Large Language Models (LLM) have emerged as a tool for robots to generate task plans using common sense reasoning. For the LLM to generate actionable plans, scene context must be provided, often through a map. Recent works have shifted from explicit maps with fixed semantic classes to implicit open…

Cited by 3SourceScholar