Alex Chen陈明远

I am Alex Chen, a robotics Ph.D. student working on embodied AI systems that can perceive, plan, and recover reliably in the real world. This template is designed to help you present your research, publications, projects, and writing with minimal code edits.

Robot LearningEmbodied AIField Robotics

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2025 – Present

Embodied Lab Assistant

Mobile manipulation pipeline for instruction-following tasks in cluttered indoor research spaces.

Embodied AIManipulationROS 2
users: 3 labs

2024 – 2025

Heterogeneous Inspection Fleet

Shared mapping and task allocation system for wheeled and aerial robots in semi-structured facilities.

Multi-RobotPlanningDeployment
scenes: 18

2023 – 2024

Learning-Based Navigation Benchmark

Evaluation suite for comparing hybrid navigation stacks under dynamic obstacles and noisy localization.

NavigationBenchmarkingSafety

2026 – Present

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The public website template used to manage profile, publications, projects, and blog posts from structured content files.

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Publications

Latest Writing

Journal2026
J.1

Learning Robust Recovery Policies for Long-Horizon Mobile Manipulation

Alex Chen*, Lina Zhao, Aaron Wu(Student first author)

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Robot LearningManipulation
In Submission2026
S.1

Language-Guided Affordance Models for Adaptive Lab Assistance

Alex Chen*, Lina Zhao(Replace with your own manuscript status)

Under review

Embodied AIVision-Language

Recognition

Honors & Awards

  • Graduate Fellowship · Example University · 2026
  • Best Student Paper Finalist · Example Robotics Symposium · 2025
  • Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis · Example Institute of Technology · 2024
  • National Scholarship · Ministry of Education · 2023