Lipeng Chen
I am currently a tenure-track associate professor in the School of Artificial Intelligence (SAI), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). Prior to this, I was a senior research scientist at the Tencent Robotics X, and a research associate advised by Michael Mistry at the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, University of Edinburgh. Before that, I received my PhD degree from the Robotic Manipulation Lab, University of Leeds, advised by Prof. Mehmet Dogar and Prof. Anthony Cohn.
My long-term goal is to develop robots endowed with robust physical intelligence and dexterity, enabling them to reliably perform complex real-world tasks—both autonomously and in seamless collaboration with humans. To this end, my research focuses on the principles governing dexterous movement and control in both robots and humans, particularly in continuous interactions. This encompasses multiple key topics including multi-modal perception, high-dimensional motion planning, stochastic optimal control, dynamics model learning, and their applications in robotic grasping, dexterous manipulation, multi-contact legged locomotion, and compliant human-robot collaboration.
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Research Interests
My research focuses at the intersection of embodied intelligence and robotics, particularly the following areas:
- Robot Perception: pose estimation and tracking, tactile sensing
- Grasp and Manipulation: grasping, dexterous manipulation, non-prehensile manipulaiton, deformable manipulation, etc.
- Locomotion: dynamics and model-based control, legged locomotion, loco-manipulation, etc.
- Human-Centered Robots: human modeling, human-robot interaction, collaborative manipulation.
News
- [Jun. 2025] One paper is accepted by IROS 2025.
- [Jun. 2025] One paper on tactile based mobile manipulation is accepted by IEEE TMECH.
- [May 2025] One paper on tactile sensing is accepted by Science Advances.