Kexin Shi (石可心)
Email: kexins@andrew.cmu.edu
I am an incoming Robotics PhD student at CMU Robotics Institute, followed by my visiting here advised by Prof. Deepak Pathak. Previously, I was a master research student at Robotics and Perception Group (RPG) led by Prof. Davide Scaramuzza. I am broadly interested in robot learning, especially in RL , generative algorithms and foundation models, with validations across different platforms: quadrotor, quadruped, humanoid, manipulator, etc.
During my master, I also have research experiences at Robotic Systems Lab (RSL) led by Prof. Macro Hutter and Computer Vision and Geometry Group (CVG) led by Prof. Marc Pollefeys. Prior to master, I obtained Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science at Xi’an Jiaotong University.
I have spent many colorful summers in different places. In 2022, I attended ETHz Robotics Summer School. In 2019, I participated in NUS SOC Summer WorkShop. In 2018, I was an exchanged summer student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
News
| Jan 29, 2024 | Our work Extreme Parkour with Legged Robots was accpeted by ICRA 2024. See you in Yokohama, Japan! |
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| Nov 21, 2023 | In the past month, I was invited to give talks about our extreme parkour work at REAL at Stanford, Biomimetic Robotics Lab at MIT and Dynamic Robot Systems Group at Oxford Robotics Institute. |
| Nov 10, 2023 | It was super exciting to meet lots of new friends at CoRL 2023 in Atlanta and discuss about our extreme parkour work. We also showed a live demo, please check! |
| Sep 16, 2023 | Our work Extreme Parkour with Legged Robots was released! |
| Jul 24, 2023 | I arrived in Pittsburgh and started my visiting in person at CMU Robotics Institute. |
| Jun 10, 2023 | I have spent a wonderful week at ICRA 2023 in London, UK. It was my pleasure to present my work as well as meet many new friends! |
| Jan 17, 2023 | Our work Learning Perception-Aware Agile Flight in Cluttered Environments was accepted by ICRA 2023. See you in London, UK! |
| Sep 10, 2021 | I joined in Robotics and Perception Group (RPG) as a graduate researcher. |
Publications
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ICRA 2024 CoRL 2023 Generalist / Roboletics / Deployable Workshop (Oral)
An end-to-end data-driven approach that can scale to the challenging task of precise and extreme parkour with onboard sensing. |
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ICRA 2023
A learning-based method that achieves perception-aware, minimum-time, vision-based flight in cluttered environments. |
Projects
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An offline python SLAM using COLMAP and ORB-SLAM which is robust, accurate, and highly extensible. |
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An accurate toolbox for localization and pose estimation of ANYmal without external sources like depth cameras or QR codes. |
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A point-voxel-based model for efficient spatio-temporal processing of event data in classification task and optical flow regression task. |
Personal
I spend my spare time in reading, painting and traveling. More photographs can be found in my Instagram.
Particularly, I also enjoy some thrill sports to challenge myself.
Life is waiting us to explore more. Let's keep moving.