12/17/2025:Professor XX gave an invited talk, "Deployable Robots that Learn", at Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, in Sapporo, Japan.
11/2/2025: Congratulations to Haiyue Chen for winning the Best Student Presenter Award with her very first presentation at her very first academic conference! During her presentation, Haiyue ran a live robot demo on our Verti-Arena in Northen Virginia, 3000 miles / 5000 kms away across the Atlantic, from Galway, Ireland! [Paper] [Video] [Demo] [Award Certificate]
05/01/2025:Professor XX receives George Mason University Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence in Research. [Award Plaque]
04/01/2025:Professor XX receives George Mason University College of Engineering and Computing 2025 Faculty Excellence Award for Research. [Award Plaque]
03/27/2025:Professor XX gave three invited talks, "Deployable Robots that Learn", at University of Colorado Boulder, University of Delaware, and University at Buffalo. Professor XX will also give a talk at New York University on May 6 2025.
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12/01/2024: The RobotiXX lab will present three Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) papers at ICRA 2025! Congrats to all XX-Men and XX-Women! Thanks to all collaborators from UMD GAMMA! [Paper 1] [Paper 2] [Paper 3]
10/31/2024:Professor XX gave an invited talk, "Learning Planning and Control for Extreme Vehicle Mobility", at the 14th Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles in IROS 2024! [Recording] [Workshop]
05/17/2024:Professor XX has been selected in the ICRA 2024 New Generation Star Project! [Certificate]
04/30/2024:Professor XX gave an invited talk, "Learning Robot Navigation in Challenging Environments", at Center of Excellence in Command, Control, Communications, Computing, Cyber, and Intelligence (C5I Center) 35-Year Anniversary.
04/26/2024:Professor XX gave three invited talks, "Deployable Robots that Learn", at Virginia Tech (National Capital Region and Blacksburg) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
03/29/2024:Professor XX gave an invited talk about Human-Interactive Mobile Robots at SoRAIM Winter School in Inria and University Grenoble Alpes in Grenoble, France! It was such a pleasant experience meeting European researchers in Social Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Multimedia in the lovely French city Grenoble! [Slides] [Recording]
02/01/2024: The RobotiXX lab will present six papers at ICRA 2024! Congrats to all XX-Men and XX-Women! Thanks to all collaborators from UT LARG and AMRL and UMD GAMMA! [Paper 1] [Paper 2] [Paper 3] [Paper 4] [Paper 5] [Paper 6]
09/15/2023: Congratulations to XX-ManDibyendu Das for being awarded the GMU IDIA Predoctoral Fellowship! Dibyendu will be focusing on developing motion memory techniques to leverage past planning experiences to accelerate future motion planning!
07/04/2023: Working on social robot navigation and wondering how to evaluate your research? Check out our paper "Principles and Guidelines for Evaluating Social Robot Navigation Algorithms"! [PDF] [Website]
03/27/2023: Our Multi-Modal Social Human Navigation Dataset (MuSoHu) is available on GMU Dataverse, which contains ~50 km, 10 hours, 150 trials, 7 humans of data in the wild and allows future robots to learn socially compliant navigation from humans, natural-born experts at such a task! [Website] [PDF] [Video] [Dataset] [Code]
03/18/2023: Our XX-Man Amir and XX-Bot Go1 from the RobotiXX lab appear in ABC News Good Morning America featuring our Northern Virginia's congressman Don Beyer attending George Mason University to study AI at 72 years old! [ABC News]
03/06/2023: To empower conventional wheeled robots with capability to move through vertically challenging terrain (e.g., large boulders or fallen tree trunks), our Verti-Wheelers project is officially public! [Website] [PDF] [Video] [Datasets] [Code]
03/03/2023: Another Google AI Blog features our Performer-MPC, a 8.3M-parameter Transformer model with <10ms on-robot latency paired with Model Predictive Control, navigating robots in the real world! [Blog] [PDF] [Website] [Video]
02/14/2023: Our Performer-MPC, a 8.3M-parameter Transformer model with <10ms on-robot latency paired with Model Predictive Control, is mentioned by the Robotics@Google AI Blog! [Blog] [PDF] [Website] [Video]
10/21/2022:Professor XX will give two invited talks at two IROS 2022 workshops in Kyoto: "Evaluating Motion Planning "in-the-Loops"" at the Evaluating Motion Planning Performance workshop and "Learning Agile Ground Maneuvers in Highly Constrained and Off-Road Conditions" at the Agile Robotics: Perception, Learning, Planning, and Control workshop. [Workshop 1] [Workshop 2] [Tweet]
09/15/2022: Our new DynaBARN dataset, as a dynamic extension to our static BARN dataset, with 300 navigation environments with dynamic obstacles is accepted as a SSRR2021 paper and is available for use by the community. [PDF] [Website]
[Dataset] [Code]
03/01/2022: Our Socially CompliAnt Navigation Dataset (SCAND) consists of demonstrations for mobile robot social navigation collected on a wheeled and legged robot in the wild indoors and outdoors. [PDF] [Video] [Website] [Dataset]
06/01/2021: I will be joining the faculty of Department of Computer Science at George Mason University in Fall 2022 as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Future Professor XX is recruiting Ph.D. students who are interested in robotics, motion planning, and machine learning. Drop me a line if you are interested in becoming one of the future XX-men. [Research Statement] [Hiring Flyer]
11/06/2020: Our Benchmark for Autonomous Robot Navigation (BARN) dataset with 300 navigation environments is presented at SSRR2020 and available for use by the community.
[Dataset] [PDF] [Video] [Presentation]
08/24/2020: We are organizing AAAI Spring Symposium "Machine Learning for Mobile Robot Navigation in the Wild" on March 22-24 2021 at Standord University in Palo Alto, CA, a 2.5-day symposium of talks, presentations, breakout sessions, and panel discussions, with actual mobile robots. Submissions are welcome.
[Website] [Newsletter]
Kim Baraka, Ifrah Idrees, Taylor Kessler Faulkner, Erdem Biyik, Serena Booth, Mohamed Chetouani, Daniel H. Grollman, Akanksha Saran, Emmanuel Senft, Silvia Tulli, Anna-Lisa Vollmer, Antonio Andriella, Helen Beierling, Tiffany Horter, Jens Kober, Isaac Sheidlower, Matthew E. Taylor, Sanne van Waveren, and Xuesu Xiao. Human-Interactive Robot Learning: Definition, Challenges, and Recommendations. Accepted by ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI). [PDF]
Anthony Francis, Claudia Perez-D'Arpino, Chengshu Li, Fei Xia, Alexandre Alahi, Rachid Alami, Aniket Bera, Abhijat Biswas, Joydeep Biswas, Rohan Chandra, Hao-Tien Lewis Chiang, Michael Everett, Sehoon Ha, Justin Hart, Jonathan P. How, Haresh Karnan, Tsang-Wei Edward Lee, Luis J. Manso, Reuth Mirksy, Soeren Pirk, Phani Teja Singamaneni, Peter Stone, Ada V. Taylor, Peter Trautman, Nathan Tsoi, Marynel Vazquez, Xuesu Xiao, Peng Xu, Naoki Yokoyama, Alexander Toshev, and Roberto Martin-Martin. Principles and Guidelines for Evaluating Social Robot Navigation Algorithms. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), 14(2), 34: 1-65, 2025. [PDF] [Website]
Al Jaber Mahmud, Duc M. Nguyen, Filipe Veiga, Xuesu Xiao, and Xuan Wang. Human Uncertainty-Aware MPC for Enhanced Human-Robot Collaborative Manipulation. 2024 IEEE 7th International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS). Best Paper Finalist at ICRA 2024 Workshop on Exploring Role Allocation in Human-Robot Co-Manipulation. [PDF]
Amirreza Payandeh, Dan Pluth, Jordan Hosier, Xuesu Xiao, and Vijay K. Gurbani. How susceptible are LLMs to Logical Fallacies?. 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING). [PDF] [Code]
Shravan Ravi, Shreyas Satewar, Gary Wang, Xuesu Xiao, Garrett Warnell, Joydeep Biswas, and Peter Stone. Visually Adaptive Geometric Navigation. Accepted by 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR). [PDF] [Video]
Manshi Limbu, Zechen Hu, Sara Oughourli, Xuan Wang, Xuesu Xiao, and Daigo Shishika. Team Coordination on Graphs with State-Dependent Edge Costs. 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Best Paper Award on Cognitive Robotics Finalist. [PDF] [Video] [Poster]
Xuesu Xiao, Jan Dufek, and Robin Murphy. Explicit Motion Risk Representation. 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR). [PDF] [Video]
Xuesu Xiao, Yiming Fan, Jan Dufek, and Robin Murphy. Indoor UAV Localization Using a Tether. 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR). Best Paper Finalist. [PDF] [Press]
Xuesu Xiao, Ellen Cappo, Weikun Zhen, Jin Dai, Ke Sun, Chaohui Gong, Matthew J. Travers, and Howie Choset. Locomotive Reduction for Snake Robots. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). [PDF] [Video]
Uland Wong, Heather Jones, Steven Huber, Christopher Cunningham, Warren C. Whittaker, Steve McGuire, Xuesu Xiao, Rick Shanor, Ander Solorzano, Tom Carlone, Wennie Tabib, Christopher Greve, Lauren Schneider, Nathan Otten, and William L. "Red" Whittaker. Exploration of Planetary Skylights and Tunnels . NASA Technical Report, 2014. [PDF]
Chair: IEEE ICRA 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, and 2022 Competition The Benchmark Autonomous Robot Navigation (BARN) Challenge, IROS 2025 Competition Chair, SSRR 2025 Program Co-Chair (Americas), SSRR 2024 Publication Chair, IJCAI 2023 Robot Exhibition, IEEE ICRA 2022 Tutorial Learning Motion Control for Mobile Robot Navigation, AAAI Spring Symposium Series 2021 Machine Learning for Mobile Robot Navigation in the Wild, IEEE ICRA 2021 Workshop Machine Learning for Motion Planning
Organizing Committee: RSS 2025 Workshop on Resilient Off-road Autonomous Robotics (RSS-ROAR 2025), IEEE ICRA 2025 The Earth Rover Challenge (ERC), IEEE/RSJ IROS 2024 The Earth Rover Challenge (ERC), ACM/IEEE HRI 2024, 2023, and 2022 Workshop Human-Interactive Robot Learning (HIRL), CoRL 2023 Workshop Bridging the Gap between Cognitive Science and Robot Learning in the Real World: Progresses and New Directions, CPS-IoT Week 2023 F1Tenth Autonomous Grand Prix, CoRL 2022 Workshop Learning for Agile Robotics, ACM/IEEE HRI 2021 Workshop Exploring Applications for Autonomous Non-Verbal Human-Robot Interactions
Associate Editor: RA-L, ICRA, IROS, SSRR
Senior Program Committee: IJCAI
Program Committee: Student Abstract and Poster Program@AAAI2023, RL4RealLife@NeurIPS2022, AAAI, AAMAS, MLPC@ICRA20
Advisory Committee: Debates on the Future of Robotics Research Workshop@ICRA22
