Scholar
Shipeng Liu
Google Scholar ID: 2HSkONgAAAAJ
University of Southern California
Citations & Impact
Citations
68
H-index
4
i10-index
2
Publications
19
Co-authors
11
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Selected as one of four 2025–2026 MHI ECE Ph.D. Scholars at USC
- Paper 'Adaptive Locomotion on Mud through Proprioceptive Sensing of Substrate Properties' accepted to Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2025, with live robot demo
- Paper 'Characterizing Robot-Ground Interactions for Autonomous Lunar Construction' accepted to ISER'25
- Paper 'Modelling Experts' Sampling Strategy to Balance Multiple Objectives During Scientific Explorations' accepted to HRI '24 with Honorable Mention
- Paper on flipper-mud interactions accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
- Demonstrated robot’s capability to measure regolith geotechnical properties in real time at LPSC 2025
- Presented research at ICRA 2024 (Yokohama), AAAI 2025, APS March Meeting, and others
- Papers accepted to WMAC @ AAAI 2025 and LM4Plan @ AAAI 2025
- MeetScript accepted to CSCW 2023 (26th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing)
Research Experience
- Worked on NASA’s LASSIE project: developing legged autonomous robots for surface science in analogue environments
- Contributed to the TRUSSES project on multi-heterogeneous robot coordination and planning
- Researched Scout-Rover cooperation for online terrain strength mapping and traversal risk estimation
- Conducted field tests at White Sands National Park (Oct 2025) and Mt. Hood, Oregon (Aug 2023)
- Collaborated with Dr. Gaurav S. Sukhatme on embodied proactive agents for human-robot teamwork
Background
- Ph.D. Candidate in RoboLAND at the University of Southern California (USC)
- Develops direct-drive legged robots that use legs and bodies as active force sensors for real-time terrain estimation and adaptive navigation without vision or LiDAR
- Aims to advance legged robots as environment-aware co-scientists for planetary and terrestrial scientific exploration
- Contributes to NASA projects LASSIE (Legged geoscience robotic assistant) and TRUSSES (multi-heterogeneous robot planning)
- Collaborated with Dr. Gaurav S. Sukhatme on embodied proactive agents for human-robot teaming, developing foundation model frameworks that integrate fast–slow reasoning for real-time proactive assistance
