Xiaobin Xiong 熊晓滨
Email: xxiong@caltech.edu, xiaobin.xiong@wisc.edu
CV, Google Scholar, GitHub, Media (Videos of Research Work)
I am very excited to join the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Spring of 2023. I am actively looking for self-motivated PhD and MS students to work with me in robotics. If you are interested, do not hesitate to drop me an email and apply! See more information here.
I seek efficient, effective, and elegant solutions to the motion synthesis problem on high-dimensional robotic systems that have hybrid dynamics from the physical interactions with the environment. I am always exploring new tools and techniques that potentially can solve or help to solve the problems I am interested in. My research so far has been mainly focused on bipedal robotic locomotion, including dynamic motion planning and feedback control synthesis, using a variety of techniques from dynamics modeling, control theory, numerical optimization, and data-driven approximations.
Education
PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Advisor: Aaron Ames (AMBER Lab), California Institute of Technology, May 2021
Master's in Mechanical Engineering, Advisors: Kevin M Lynch and Paul Umbanhowar, Northwestern University, 2015
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, 2013
Awards
RoboCup Best Paper Award, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019
Amazon Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence, Information Science and Technology (IST) Caltech & Amazon, 2019
Simoudis Discovery Fund, Information Science and Technology (IST) Caltech, 2018
Graduate Student Travel Grant, Caltech, 2019
IROS Student and Developing Countries (SDC) Travel Award, 2018 & 2019
IROS-NSF Doctoral Consortium/Travel Award, IEEE, 2017
Mubea scholarship, 2012, Enn New Energy scholarship, 2011, External scholarship for Tongji University
1st class scholarship (2012, 2011), 2nd class scholarship (2010), Outstanding Student Award (2012), Tongji University
Second Prize of the National Driverless Car Competition, Freescale Ltd & Ministry of Education of China, 2012
Selected Publications
Xiaobin Xiong, Aaron D. Ames
3D Underactuated Bipedal Walking via H-LIP based Gait Synthesis and Stepping Stabilization
In IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2022.
Xiaobin Xiong, Aaron D. Ames
In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter (RA-L), 2021
Xiaobin Xiong, Aaron D. Ames
In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter (RA-L), 2020
Xiaobin Xiong, Aaron D. Ames
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020
Xiaobin Xiong, Aaron D. Ames
Bipedal Hopping: Reduced-order Model Embedding via Optimization-based Control
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018
Xiaobin Xiong, Aaron D. Ames, Daniel I. Goldman
A stability region criterion for flat-footed bipedal walking on deformable granular terrain
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017