Tianxin Hu is a Research Assistant at the Centre for Advanced Robotics Technology Innovation (CARTIN), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), in Prof. Lihua Xie’s group, working on reinforcement learning for humanoid locomotion. He received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Control and Automation from NTU in 2026. His research interests include optimization-based planning and control, reinforcement learning for legged locomotion, and integrating structured dynamical priors into learning-based control.

Education

M.Sc., Computer Control and Automation, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, Aug. 2024 - Jan. 2026
B.Eng., Vehicle Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology (WUST), China, Sep. 2020 - Jun. 2024

Experience

Research Assistant, Centre for Advanced Robotics Technology Innovation (CARTIN), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, Jun. 2026 - Present

Awards

ICRA 2026 Workshop Best Poster Award

Other Information

Work Email: tianxin.hu@ntu.edu.sg

Publications

First-Author Publications

Energy-Constrained Navigation for Planetary Rovers with Singular Internal Power Source.
Tianxin Hu, Weixiang Guo, Rui Qian, Jiaye Jin, Haoran Zhao, Shenghai Yuan, Lihua Xie.
International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA), 2026.

Selected as Oral presentation
```
@inproceedings{hu2026energy,
  title = {Energy-Constrained Navigation for Planetary Rovers with Singular Internal Power Source},
  author = {Hu, Tianxin and Guo, Weixiang and Qian, Rui and Jin, Jiaye and Zhao, Haoran and Yuan, Shenghai and Xie, Lihua},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA)},
  year = {2026},
  organization = {IEEE},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11618131},
  cover = {/img/pubs/EnergyConstrainedNavigation.mp4},
  addendum = {Selected as Oral presentation}
}
```
```
Hu, Tianxin and Guo, Weixiang and Qian, Rui and Jin, Jiaye and Zhao, Haoran and Yuan, Shenghai and Xie, Lihua, "Energy-Constrained Navigation for Planetary Rovers with Singular Internal Power Source," International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA), 2026.
```
Swept volume-aware trajectory planning and MPC tracking for multi-axle swerve-drive AMRs.
Tianxin Hu, Shenghai Yuan, Ruofei Bai, Xinhang Xu, Yuwen Liao, Fen Liu, Lihua Xie.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 14505–14512, 2025.
```
@inproceedings{hu2025swept,
  title = {Swept volume-aware trajectory planning and {MPC} tracking for multi-axle swerve-drive {AMRs}},
  author = {Hu, Tianxin and Yuan, Shenghai and Bai, Ruofei and Xu, Xinhang and Liao, Yuwen and Liu, Fen and Xie, Lihua},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  pages = {14505--14512},
  year = {2025},
  organization = {IEEE},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11127914},
  code = {https://github.com/ccwss-maker/svplan},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU1L7FAnooU},
  cover = {/img/pubs/SVPlan.mp4}
}
```
```
Hu, Tianxin and Yuan, Shenghai and Bai, Ruofei and Xu, Xinhang and Liao, Yuwen and Liu, Fen and Xie, Lihua, "Swept volume-aware trajectory planning and MPC tracking for multi-axle swerve-drive AMRs," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025.
```
Tire wear aware trajectory tracking control for multi-axle swerve-drive autonomous mobile robots.
Tianxin Hu, Xinhang Xu, Thien-Minh Nguyen, Fen Liu, Shenghai Yuan, Lihua Xie.
Journal of Automation and Intelligence, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 243–253, 2025.
```
@article{hu2025tire,
  title = {Tire wear aware trajectory tracking control for multi-axle swerve-drive autonomous mobile robots},
  author = {Hu, Tianxin and Xu, Xinhang and Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Liu, Fen and Yuan, Shenghai and Xie, Lihua},
  journal = {Journal of Automation and Intelligence},
  volume = {4},
  number = {4},
  pages = {243--253},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jai.2025.05.003},
  cover = {/img/pubs/TireWearAwareMPC.jpg}
}
```
```
Hu, Tianxin and Xu, Xinhang and Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Liu, Fen and Yuan, Shenghai and Xie, Lihua, "Tire wear aware trajectory tracking control for multi-axle swerve-drive autonomous mobile robots," Journal of Automation and Intelligence, 2025.
```

Collaborative Publications

Interactive Object Tracking on Gait-Parameterized Locomotion Policy.
Gia-Hung Huynh, Tianxin Hu, Tien-Dat Nguyen, Shenghai Yuan, Thien-Minh Nguyen.
International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), 2026.

Selected as Oral presentation
```
@inproceedings{huynh2026interactive,
  title = {Interactive Object Tracking on Gait-Parameterized Locomotion Policy},
  author = {Huynh, Gia-Hung and Hu, Tianxin and Nguyen, Tien-Dat and Yuan, Shenghai and Nguyen, Thien-Minh},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)},
  year = {2026},
  organization = {IEEE},
  video = {https://youtu.be/IC0k1u7NGM8},
  cover = {/img/pubs/GaitObjectTracking.mp4},
  addendum = {Selected as Oral presentation}
}
```
```
Huynh, Gia-Hung and Hu, Tianxin and Nguyen, Tien-Dat and Yuan, Shenghai and Nguyen, Thien-Minh, "Interactive Object Tracking on Gait-Parameterized Locomotion Policy," International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), 2026.
```
Multi-Agent Off-World Exploration for Sparse Evidence Discovery via Gaussian Belief Mapping and Dual-Domain Coverage.
Zhuoran Qiao, Tianxin Hu, Thien-Minh Nguyen, Shenghai Yuan.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026.
```
@inproceedings{qiao2026multi,
  title = {Multi-Agent Off-World Exploration for Sparse Evidence Discovery via Gaussian Belief Mapping and Dual-Domain Coverage},
  author = {Qiao, Zhuoran and Hu, Tianxin and Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Yuan, Shenghai},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2026},
  organization = {IEEE},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07650},
  cover = {/img/pubs/OffWorldExploration.jpg}
}
```
```
Qiao, Zhuoran and Hu, Tianxin and Nguyen, Thien-Minh and Yuan, Shenghai, "Multi-Agent Off-World Exploration for Sparse Evidence Discovery via Gaussian Belief Mapping and Dual-Domain Coverage," IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026.
```
TGSFormer: Scalable temporal Gaussian splatting for embodied semantic scene completion.
Rui Qian, Haozhi Cao, Tianchen Deng, Tianxin Hu, Weixiang Guo, Shenghai Yuan, Lihua Xie.
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 11881–11890, 2026.
```
@inproceedings{qian2026tgsformer,
  title = {TGSFormer: Scalable temporal Gaussian splatting for embodied semantic scene completion},
  author = {Qian, Rui and Cao, Haozhi and Deng, Tianchen and Hu, Tianxin and Guo, Weixiang and Yuan, Shenghai and Xie, Lihua},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  pages = {11881--11890},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2026/html/Qian_TGSFormer_Scalable_Temporal_Gaussian_Splatting_for_Embodied_Semantic_Scene_Completion_CVPR_2026_paper.html},
  video = {https://youtu.be/bzFKayyx168},
  cover = {/img/pubs/TGSFormer.mp4}
}
```
```
Qian, Rui and Cao, Haozhi and Deng, Tianchen and Hu, Tianxin and Guo, Weixiang and Yuan, Shenghai and Xie, Lihua, "TGSFormer: Scalable temporal Gaussian splatting for embodied semantic scene completion," IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.
```