About Me

I am an M.S. student in Computer Science at Chongqing University, advised by Prof. Chao Chen. Before that, I received my B.E. in Software Engineering from Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

My research focuses on World Action Models, Generalizable Robot Manipulation, and 3D Affordance Grounding. I am interested in building embodied agents that connect language and visual perception to robust, executable actions in the physical world.

I am currently a Robot Learning Algorithm Intern at Astribot. Previously, I worked at the vivo Central Research Institute Robotics Lab on vision-language-action policy deployment, robot teleoperation, and simulation-to-real transfer.

News

  • 2026.08: Joined Astribot as a Robot Learning Algorithm Intern.
  • 2026.06: Our PrismBot team won the Global Championship in the ICRA 2026 AgiBot World Challenge โ€” Reasoning to Action Track.
  • 2026.05: GSAM was accepted to PPSN 2026.
  • 2025.10: OVA-Fields was presented at ICCV 2025 in Honolulu, Hawaiสปi.
  • 2025.09: Received the National Scholarship.

Selected Publications

Under Review

ArcVLA: Action-Grounded Representation Calibration for Robust Vision-Language-Action Models

Heng Su, Y. Xie, H. Zheng, Z. Yan, X. Dai, M. Li, M. Xie, H. Yang, C. Chen

  • Aligns visual-language features with action representations through an action-anchored calibration pathway.
  • Improves ฯ€โ‚€.โ‚… from 86.7% to 93.7% on LIBERO-plus, and from 58.7% to 97.7% under sensor noise.
ICCV 2025

OVA-Fields: Weakly Supervised Open-Vocabulary Affordance Fields for Robot Operational Part Detection

Heng Su*, Mengying Xie*, Nieqing Cao, Yan Ding, Beichen Shao, Xianlei Long, Fuqiang Gu, Chao Chen

  • Maps open-vocabulary instructions to fine-grained operational parts in complex 3D scenes.
  • Achieves 52.4% mIoU and 90% success on real-robot refrigerator-opening tasks.
Under Review

MLLM-Afford: Grounding 3D Affordances for Embodied Robots via Multimodal Large Language Models

Heng Su, Chao Chen, Mengying Xie, et al., Fuqiang Gu

  • Jointly reasons over natural-language instructions, dense interaction regions, and motion directions.
  • Reaches 23.28 mIoU and 64.73% Succ@r on SceneFun3D, with mobile-manipulator validation.
PPSN 2026 GSAM framework for safe articulated object manipulation

GSAM: A Generalizable and Safe Robotic Framework for Articulated Object Manipulation

Beichen Shao, Mengying Xie, Heng Su, Wanyi Zhang, Mingyan Li, Yan Ding, Fausto Giunchiglia, Chao Chen

  • Combines vision, commonsense refinement, interaction constraints, and kinematic-aware planning.
  • Improves manipulation success rate by 36.0% over the strongest baseline.

Research Highlight

PrismBot team celebrating its AgiBot World Challenge 2026 championship
ICRA 2026 ยท Global Champion

AgiBot World Challenge โ€” Reasoning to Action Track

As a member of vivo Robotics Lab's PrismBot team, I developed long-horizon manipulation policies for AgiBot Genie Sim 2.0 and the Genie G2 robot. I contributed task-aware trajectory optimization, keyframe-sensitive objectives, and failure-prone subtask oversampling.

The team won the championship after competing with 526 teams from 27 countries and regions. We also achieved Global 3rd Place in the RoboChallenge WBC Track.

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Experiences

Astribot

Robot Learning Algorithm Intern

vivo Central Research Institute โ€” Robotics Lab

Algorithm Engineer Intern

Education

Chongqing University

M.S. in Computer Science ยท Advisor: Prof. Chao Chen

Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications

B.E. in Software Engineering

Honors and Awards

  • 2026: Global Champion, ICRA AgiBot World Challenge โ€” Reasoning to Action Track
  • 2026: Global 3rd Place, ICRA RoboChallenge WBC Track
  • 2025: National Scholarship
  • 2025: Advanced Individual in Scientific and Technological Academic Innovation, Chongqing University
  • 2022: Anshuo Scholarship (Top 1%)
  • 2020โ€“2026: First-Class Academic Scholarship (7 awards)

Technical Skills

Programming & ML: Python, PyTorch, large-model fine-tuning, inference, and deployment.
Robotics & Systems: ROS, SLAM, motion planning, teleoperation, Franka and Realman platforms.
Tools: Linux, Docker, Git.