Feifei Qian
WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Develops legged robots that exploit terrain interactions for locomotion on granular media.
Feifei Qian's lab at USC works on legged locomotion & humanoids. 18 papers since 2023, 3 at top venues, mostly CoRL and HRI. 6 PhD students and 1 master's student. 34 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 17%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 34
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 4 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 6 papers2025 · T1 2
- 4 papers2024 · T1 1
- 4 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CoRL, HRI, RSS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Legged locomotion & humanoids4 papers
- terrain3 papers
- locomotion3 papers
- exploit0 papers
- legged robots0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20264 papers
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)Failure Mechanisms and Risk Estimation for Legged Robot Locomotion on Granular Slopes
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)From Impact to Insight: Dynamics-Aware Proprioceptive Terrain Sensing on Granular Media
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)Inverse Resistive Force Theory (I-RFT): Learning granular properties through robot-terrain physical interactions
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)Proprioceptive Safe Active Navigation and Exploration for Planetary Environments
20256 papers
- I EEE International Conference on Robotics and AutomationA bio-inspired sand-rolling robot: effect of body shape on sand rolling performance
- RSS (T1)Adaptive Locomotion on Mud through Proprioceptive Sensing of Substrate Properties
- ISERCharacterizing Robot-Ground Interactions for Autonomous Lunar Construction
- CoRL (T1)Granular Loco-Manipulation: Repositioning Rocks Through Strategic Sand Avalanche
- Multi-Objective Optimization Workshop @ Robotics: Science and Systems ( RSS)Safe Active Navigation and Exploration for Planetary Environments Using Proprioceptive Measurements
- 56 th Lunar and Planetary Science ConferenceTowards Making Every Step an Experiment: Effect of Robot Gait Speed on Characterizing Regolith Properties by Walking
20244 papers
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)Learning Granular Media Avalanche Behavior for Indirectly Manipulating Obstacles on a Granular Slope
- HRI (T1)Modelling Experts’ Sampling Strategy to Balance Multiple Objectives During Scientific Explorations
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)Obstacle-Aided Path Following A Quadrupedal Robot Through Sequential Gait Composition
- THRIUnderstanding Human Dynamic Sampling Objectives to Enable Robot-assisted Scientific Decision Making
20234 papers
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)Adaptation of flipper-mud interactions enables effective terrestrial locomotion on muddy substrates
- Lunar and Planetary Science ConferenceLASSIE: Legged Autonomous Surface Science In Analogue Environments
- Lunar and Planetary Science ConferenceRobotic Legs as Novel Planetary Instrumentation to Explore the Mechanical Properties of Regolith
- Nature News & ViewsSwift progress for robots over complex terrain
Where alumni went34 listed
Apply to USCFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (Viterbi)
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- Single round (Dec 15)
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