Pingcheng Jian 简平诚

I am a fourth year PhD student in the ECE department at Duke University. I'm fortunate to be advised by Professor Michael Zavlanos and Professor Boyuan Chen.

Previously, I obtained my bachelor of engineering from the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University in 2021.

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My current research is about robot learning, and my previous publications mostly focus on robotic manipulation. My current research focuses on applying the foundation models to robotic tasks.

We present Perception Stitching that enables strong zero-shot adaptation to large visual changes by directly stitching novel combinations of visual encoders.

We propose Policy Stitching, a novel framework to facilitate multi-task and multi-robot transfer.

Using adversarial reinforcement learning to imrove the robustness of robotic manipulation.

We propose a physics-based method to learn environmental fields (EFs) using a mobile robot.

Solve complex bimanual robot manipulation tasks on multiple objects with disentangled attention, which provides an intrinsic regularization for two robots to focus on separate sub-tasks and objects.

Some course projects show my engineering capability.

I built all the hardware and software of this spider robot from scratch. I drew the parts of this robot with SOLIDWORKS and then printed them with 3D printer. The controller of this robot is a Raspberry Pi, and the control algorithm is written in Python. Then I generated the .urdf files of this robot and built the simulator of this robot with PyBullet.