Research

(*: equal contribution)

Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in any of the following works.

Journal Publications

• Learning-enhanced Optimal Gait Design for a Tendon-driven Soft Quadruped Robot via Multi-fidelity Bayesian Optimization
  Kaige Tan, Xuezhi Niu, Qinglei Ji, Lei Feng & Martin Törngren
  Applied Soft Computing, 2024
  

Conference Publications

• Investigating Symbiosis in Robotic Ecosystems: A Case Study for Multi-Robot Reinforcement Learning Reward Shaping
  Xuezhi Niu & Didem Gürdür Broo
  2025 9th International Conference on Robotics and Automation Sciences (ICRAS)
  

• Enabling Symbiosis in Multi-Robot Systems through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  Xuezhi Niu, Natalia Calvo Barajas & Didem Gürdür Broo
  2025 IEEE 8th International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS)
  

• Optimal Gait Control for a Tendon-driven Soft Quadruped Robot by Model-based Reinforcement Learning
  Xuezhi Niu*, Kaige Tan*, Didem Gürdür Broo & Lei Feng
  International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025
  

Thesis

• Optimal Gait Control of Soft Quadruped Robot by Model-based Reinforcement Learning
  Xuezhi Niu
  M.Sc. Thesis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2023
  

Technical Report

• Electronically Vacuum Regulated Shut-off Valve for Milking System
  Carl Egenäs*, Felix Ekman*, Chenqi Ma*, Tim Naser*, Xuezhi Niu*, Axel Sernelin*, Samuel Stenow*, Benjamin StrÖm*
  H.K. Project, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2023
  

Reviewer

IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS), IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN)