Biography

Guofei Chen is pursuing the Master’s of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. He is interested in making mobile robots useful in real-world.

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Interests
  • Planning
  • Localization & Navigation & System Engineering
  • Optimization
Education

  • BE in Automation, 2023

    Zhejiang University, Advisor - Prof. Fei Gao

  • MS in Robotics, 2025 (expected)

    Carnegie Mellon University, Advisor - Prof. Ji Zhang

Skills

Linux
ros
ROS
lua
Lua
cpp
C++
unity
Unity

Research Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant
Ji’s lab, CMU RI
Sep 2023 – Dec 2025 Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania
  • Autonomous Navigation
  • Localization and Mapping
  • Navigation System Development: Unitree Go2, Diablo
 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant
Field Autonoums Systems and compuTing Lab (FAST)
Jul 2022 – Aug 2023 Hangzhou, Zhejiang
  • Certifiable perception
  • Localization in aerial swarm, Sensor Network
 
 
 
 
 
Member
ZJUNlict - ZJU RoboCup Team
Jun 2020 – Nov 2022 Hangzhou, Zhejiang
  • Path Planning and Motion Control
  • Code maintainence
 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant
State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control
Apr 2021 – Jun 2022 Hangzhou, Zhejiang
  • Probablistic Generative Model, Variational Autoencoder
  • Data driven soft sensor

Recent Posts

A Mapping & Planning Method for RoboCup Small Size League
A novel planning method based on visibility of obstacles on the field.
Jun 12, 2022 8 min read
A Mapping & Planning Method for RoboCup Small Size League
Improving the Sampling in Gaussian Mixture Varitional Encoder - An Important but Easy to Ignore Step
The answer is - Gumbel-Softmax!
Jan 23, 2022 12 min read
Improving the Sampling in Gaussian Mixture Varitional Encoder - An Important but Easy to Ignore Step

Projects

TinySQL
A Relational Database from Scratch
Code Documentation
TinySQL

Publications

Botao He, Guofei Chen, Wenshan Wang, Ji Zhang, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos (2024). Interactive-FAR: Interactive, Fast and Adaptable Routing for Navigation Among Movable Obstacles in Complex Unknown Environments. IROS 2024.

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Zhichao Chen, Hao Wang, Guofei Chen, Le Yao, Zhiqiang Ge, Zhihuan Song (2022). Analyzing and Improving Supervised Nonlinear Dynamical Probabilistic Latent Variable Model for Inferential Sensors. T-II.

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