Fu Chen

Robot learning · Embodied intelligence

Fu Chen working on a RoboMaster robot

I am a master’s student in Electronic and Information Engineering at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). I work on robot learning and embodied intelligence, with an emphasis on making manipulation policies adapt to physical interaction and work reliably on real robots.

My work covers the full experimental pipeline: robot and camera calibration, data collection, simulation, model training, inference, control interfaces, and real-robot evaluation. At the Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University, I worked with robot arms and a dexterous hand on the Zeva, Zeva-Ego, and Zetta projects.

Publications

Fu Chen*, Xin Ding*, Bingjia Huang, Xiangyu Li, Mingju Wang, Jiawei He, Kun Li, Wei Sun, Yunxin Liu, Hao Wu, Ting Cao · Co-first author, listed first

Zeva encodes executed actions and observed state changes as causal interaction signals. A dual-timescale memory retrieves useful experience to adapt a frozen policy without gradient updates. It reached 76.8% average success on RoboCasa365-Atomic5; in a separate repeated-attempt evaluation, cumulative success rose from 26% on the first attempt to 73% within four attempts.

Zeva overview: causal interaction extraction, memory, and manipulation results

Bingjia Huang*, Xin Ding, Fu Chen*, Kun Li, Wei Sun, Hao Wu, Yunxin Liu, Ting Cao · Co-first author

Zeva-Ego turns egocentric video into action-centered supervision for VLA mid-training, then uses interaction feedback for parameter-free adaptation at deployment. Scaling to 10,000 hours of video improved RoboTwin success from 63.8% to 75.3%; repeated-attempt success rose from 58% to 89%.

Zeva-Ego overview: egocentric data, VLA mid-training, and robot results

Xin Ding, Liang Mi, Mingzhe Huang, Zixuan Wang, Chao Zhang, Zixu Hao, Fu Chen, Xiangyu Li, Yikai Zheng, Yaoyu Guo, Weijun Wang, Kun Li, Hao Wu, Yunxin Liu, Ting Cao

Zetta keeps a base policy frozen while runtime critics detect failures and recovery skills support continued execution. Rollout analysis and validation update those skills over time. The paper reports 90.8% success on LIBERO-Pro, 93.6% on RoboCasa, and an 11.1× inference speedup. I worked on the base policy and implemented real-robot deployment.

Zetta overview: closed-loop critics, recovery skills, and rollout results

* Equal contribution, as indicated in the papers.

Experience

Education

Selected engineering work

RoboMaster Yuelu Team · Control group leader and team captain

2023

Led a modular embedded control framework with 400+ stars, recognized with the RoboMaster 2023 Open Source Award (third prize). Developed a wheel-legged balancing infantry control system using Kalman filtering and LQR; the team won first prize in the 2023 RoboMaster University League infantry robot competition.

RoboMaster Yuelu Team robots built with basic_framework
Yuelu Team robots built with basic_framework.

Skills

Programming: Python, C++ · Robot systems: ROS/ROS 2, MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, RKNN · Machine learning: PyTorch, Transformers, distributed training, VLA and world-action models