Muchen Sun

Muchen Sun

Ph.D. Candidate in Robotics

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Northwestern University Center for Robotics and Biosystems. I am a member of the Interactive and Emergent Autonomy Lab, advised by Prof. Todd Murphey. I also collaborate with Dr. Peter Trautman at Honda Research Institute (USA).

My research focuses on making AI smarter under uncertainty, in particular for embodied AI agents such as robots. I not only study decision-making in uncertain environments, I am also interested in how learning systems can improve themselves from interacting with uncertain environments. Applications of my research include human-aware obot navigation, autonomous exploration in non-trivial spaces, robust perception, and soft robot locomotion.



Publications

Fast Ergodic Search with Kernel Functions
arXiv Preprint 2024 (under review)
Fast Ergodic Search with Kernel Functions
Mixed-Strategy Nash Equilibrium for Crowd Navigation
arXiv Preprint 2024 (under review)
Mixed-Strategy Nash Equilibrium for Crowd Navigation
Automated Gait Generation For Walking, Soft Robotic Quadrupeds
2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Automated Gait Generation For Walking, Soft Robotic Quadrupeds
Scale-Invariant Fast Functional Registration
International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR) 2022
Scale-Invariant Fast Functional Registration
Human Robot Pacing Mismatch
Workshop of Close-Proximity Human Robot Collaboration, RSS 2022
Human Robot Pacing Mismatch
Move Beyond Trajectories: Distribution Space Coupling for Crowd Navigation
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2021
Move Beyond Trajectories: Distribution Space Coupling for Crowd Navigation