Dayou(Edison) Li | Texas A&M University

About Me

I am a first-year PhD student at the J. Mike Walker ‘66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, where I work closely with Dr. Zhiwen Fan.

I obtained my master’s degree in June 2025 at Visual, Sensing and Intelligent System Laboratory (VSISLab), Key Laboratory of Machine Learning and System Control, Ministry of Education of PRC, Shandong University (SDU), under the supervision of Prof. Wei Zhang. Before that, I received my bachelor’s degree from Northeast Agricultural University, majoring in agricultural mechanization and automation (Honors class).

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Research Interests

Robotics: reinforcement learning, VLA, VLN model
Computer Vision: 3D generation, video diffusion

News

[Jun. 2024] Two papers are accepted to IROS 2024.
[Apr. 2024] One paper is accepted to ICARM 2024.
[Aug. 2023] Our paper about mobile manipulation is selected as finalist of the Best Conference Paper in ICMA 2023.
[Jun. 2023] Our paper about container unloading is selected as finalist of the Best Conference Paper in RCAR 2023.

Publications

IROS

MPGNet: Learning Move-Push-Grasping Synergy for Target-Oriented Grasping in Occluded Scenes

Dayou Li, Chenkun Zhao, Shuo Yang, Ran Song, Xiaolei Li, Wei Zhang*(*Corresponding author)

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024.

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IROS

Coarse-to-Fine Detection of Multiple Seams for Robotic Welding

Pengkun Wei, Shuo Cheng, Dayou Li, Ran Song, Yipeng Zhang, Wei Zhang*(*Corresponding author)

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024.

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ICARM

Learning Instruction-Guided Manipulation Affordance via Large Models for Embodied Robotic Tasks

Dayou Li, Chenkun Zhao, Shuo Yang, Lin Ma, Yibin Li, Wei Zhang*(*Corresponding author)

IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ICARM), 2024.

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ICMA

A Mobile Manipulation System for Automated Replenishment in the Field of Unmanned Retail

Dayou Li, Pengkun Wei, Chenkun Zhao, Shuo Yang, Yibin Li, Wei Zhang*(*Corresponding author)

IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), 2023.

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RCAR

Multi-class 4-DoF Carton Box Detection for Heterogeneous Robotic Container Unloading

Shuo Yang, Dayou Li, Chenkun Zhao, Pengkun Wei, Yibin Li, Wei Zhang* (*Corresponding author)

IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR), 2023.

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Services

Conference Reviewers

Journal Reviewers

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)

Honors and Contests

Second Prize, National Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (China), 2021
Merit Student Scholarship, Northeast Agricultural University (2 times), 2019-2022
Second Prize, National Mathematics Competition (China), 2021
IEEE RCAR Best Conference Paper Award (Finalist), 2023
IEEE ICMA Best Conference Paper Award (Finalist), 2023
Academic Scholarship, Shandong University (2 times), 2022-2024
Bronze Award, China International College Student Innovation Competition (SDU), 2024

Lifestyle

Image Gallery

Presentation at RCAR2023.
2023.07, Datong, China.

Presentation at ICMA2023 .
2023.08, Harbin, China.