Publications

Journal articles

1. Q. Chen, S. Cheng, N. Hovakimyan, “Simultaneous Spatial and Temporal Assignment for Fast UAV Trajectory Optimization using Bilevel Optimization,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 3860-3867, 2023. [link] | [arXiv]

Preprints

1. Q. Chen, J. Sun, N. Gao, J. Low, T. Chen, M. Schwager, “GRaD-Nav: Efficiently learning visual drone navigation with Gaussian radiance fields and differentiable dynamics,” in 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), under review, [arXiv] | [project]
2. Q. Chen, J. Li, S. Cheng, N. Hovakimyan, Q. Nguyen, “Autotuning Bipedal Locomotion MPC with GRFM-Net for Efficient Sim-to-Real Transfer,” in 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), under review, [arXiv] | [project]