About

Hi! My name is Boyuan Deng. I am a third-year Ph. D. student in Robotics at Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), advised by Nikos Tsagarakis. My research interests lie in robot learning, contact-rich task and online learning.

Previously, I was a Master student in Control Science at BeiJing Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Jian Sun.

This mortal comet arcs through night’s velvet but once — may each soul trail stardust in its wake.

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Research

Selected Publications

Learning to Recover: Dynamic Reward Shaping with Wheel-Leg Coordination for Fallen Robots
Boyuan Deng, Luca Rossini, Jin Wang, Weijie Wang, Nikolaos Tsagarakis
arXiv

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Teacher-Guided Terrain-Aware Learning for Recovery of Quadruped Robots
Boyuan Deng, Xu Yang, Yilin Mo, and Nikolaos Tsagarakis
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

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Pushing the Physical Limits: Extreme Quadrupedal Fall Recovery Under Multi-Joint Failures
Boyuan Deng, Weijie Wang, Nikolaos Tsagarakis
under review

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INTENTION: Inferring Tendencies of Humanoid Robot Motion Through Interactive Intuition and Grounded VLM
Jin Wang, Weijie Wang, Boyuan Deng, Heng Zhang, Rui Dai, Nikos Tsagarakis
International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS 2025) Oral

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Project

Selected talks

Hope to be invited: hahahaha 😀