Wenhao Yu

I am currently pursuing a PhD at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) advised by Prof. Yanyong Zhang. My M.S. is also from USTC and I was advised by Prof. Jianmin Ji.

I'm broadly interested in AI for robotics and more focused on learning-based robot decision-making and planning: Robot Navigation, Autonomous Driving, and Embodied AI.

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News

[2026.8] Paper accepted: Our paper DynaHMRC is accepted to ✅ IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO).

[2026.7] Paper accepted: Our paper DBPO is accepted to ✅ ACM MM 2026.

[2026.2] Paper accepted: Our paper SoPE is accepted to ✅ CVPR 2026. Congratulations to Guanting 👏.

[2026.1] Paper accepted: Our paper C2RoPE is accepted by ✅ ICRA 2026.

[2025.12] I am looking for a research intern 📣 on embodied AI and ML. If you have any related needs, please contact me. Thank you very much!

[2025.7] Paper accepted: Our paper CalibWorkflow is accepted by ✅ ACM MM 2025.

[2025.4] Paper accepted: Our paper STDArm is accepted by ✅ RSS 2025.

[2024.6] Paper accepted: Our paper LDP is accepted by ✅ IROS 2024. Looking forward to seeing you in 📍 Abu Dhabi, UAE.

[2024.1] Paper accepted: Our paper PathRL is accepted by ✅ ICRA 2024. Looking forward to seeing you in 📍 Yokohama, Japan.

Publications

DynaHMRC: Decentralized Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Collaboration for Dynamic Tasks with Large Language Models
Wenhao Yu, Yu'ang Xie, Yifan Duan, Jie Peng, Guanting Ye, Ka-Veng Yuen, Yanyong Zhang, Jianmin Ji*
IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2026
project page / code / arXiv

DynaHMRC is a decentralized, role-aware LLM framework that coordinates heterogeneous robot teams through leadership bidding, leader election, and reflective execution, adapting efficiently to dynamic tasks with fewer action and communication steps.

DBPO method comparison and performance overview
Drift-Based Policy Optimization: Native One-Step Policy Learning for Online Robot Control
Yuxuan Gao, Yedong Shen, Shiqi Zhang, Wenhao Yu, Yifan Duan, Jia Pan, Jiajia Wu, Jiajun Deng*, Yanyong Zhang*
ACM MM, 2026
code / arXiv

DBPO shifts iterative refinement from inference to training for native one-step generative robot policies, enabling up to 100× faster inference and stable online policy optimization for high-frequency control.

SoPE method overview
SoPE: Spherical Coordinate-Based Positional Embedding for Enhancing Spatial Perception of 3D LVLMs
Koonting Yip, Qiyan Zhao, Wenhao Yu, Liangyu Yuan, Mingkai Li, Xiaofeng Zhang, Jianmin Ji, Yanyong Zhang, Qing Jiang, Ka-Veng Yuen*
CVPR, 2026
paper / arXiv

SoPE maps 3D tokens into spherical coordinates and mixes multi-scale frequencies to preserve geometry and direction, improving spatial perception in 3D LVLMs.

C2RoPE method overview
C2RoPE: Causal Continuous Rotary Positional Encoding for 3D Large Multimodal-Models Reasoning
Guanting Ye, Qiyan Zhao, Wenhao Yu, Xiaofeng Zhang, Jianmin Ji, Yanyong Zhang, Ka-Veng Yuen*
ICRA, 2026
code / arXiv

C2RoPE improves 3D multimodal reasoning by preserving spatio-temporal continuity in visual tokens and modeling spatial causal relations with Chebyshev causal masking.

CalibWorkflow: A General MLLM-Guided Workflow for Centimeter-Level Cross-Sensor Calibration
Xingchen Li, Wuyang Zhang, Guoliang You, Xiaomeng Chu, Wenhao Yu, Yifan Duan, Yuxuan Xiao, Yanyong Zhang*,
ACM MM, 2025
project page / code / paper

CalibWorkflow is a generalizable extrinsic calibration framework that uses MLLMs as visual guides to search, optimize, and refine parameters, enabling robust, hardware-agnostic calibration across diverse sensors and environments.

STDArm: Transfer Visuomotor Policy From Static Data Training to Dynamic Robot Manipulation
Yifan Duan, Heng Li, Yilong Wu, Wenhao Yu, Xinran Zhang, Yedong Shen, Jianmin Ji, Yanyong Zhang*,
RSS, 2025
project page / code / arXiv

This paper presents STDArm, a system that transfers static-trained visuomotor policies to dynamic robots, achieving precise and stable manipulation through real-time action correction without retraining.

MHRC: Closed-loop Decentralized Multi-Heterogeneous Robot Collaboration with Large Language Models
Wenhao Yu, Jie Peng, Yueliang Ying, Sai Li, Jianmin Ji*, Yanyong Zhang,
arXiv, 2409.16030
project page / code / arXiv

LLMs are used to realize the collaboration of multiple heterogeneous robots (mobile robot, manipulation robot, and mobile manipulation robot), including three tasks: make sandwich, sort solids, and pack objects.

LDP: A Local Diffusion Planner for Efficient Robot Navigation and Collision Avoidance
Wenhao Yu, Jie Peng, Huanyu Yang, Junrui Zhang, Yifan Duan, Jianmin Ji*, Yanyong Zhang,
IROS, 2024
project page / code / arXiv

Model the multi-modal expert policy distribution with multiple scenarios and preferences by diffusion model for robot navigation and collision avoidance.

PathRL: An End-to-End Path Generation Method for Collision Avoidance via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Wenhao Yu, Jie Peng, Quecheng Qiu, Hanyu Wang, Lu Zhang, Jianmin Ji*,
ICRA, 2024
project page / code / arXiv

a novel end-to-end DRL-based method, PathRL, that directly outputs navigation paths without relying on the supervised learning paradigm and is competent for a variety of complex scenarios.

Projects

Build different types of real robotics systems
Wenhao Yu

Build and deploy robot decision-making and planning systems on different types of mobile chassis, including differential chassis, Ackerman chassis, logistics vehicles, passenger cars, etc. For more details please refer to my resume.


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