Zhilun Hu

Ph.D. student · Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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I am Zhilun Hu (胡至伦), a Ph.D. student at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, advised by Prof. Weiming Shen.

My research focuses on reliable robotic manipulation: improving what robots observe, checking the actions they propose, and adapting their behavior during physical interaction. My interests span active visual servoing, dual-arm deformable-object manipulation, visuotactile policy learning, and failure recovery.

我是胡至伦,华中科技大学博士研究生,导师为沈卫明教授。我的研究围绕机器人操作的可靠性展开,关注主动视觉伺服、双臂柔性物体操作、视觉触觉策略学习,以及故障恢复与经验记忆。

Research interests

  • Active perception and visual servoing for manipulation under occlusion.
  • Vision-language reasoning for dual-arm and deformable-object manipulation.
  • Visuotactile policy adaptation and reinforcement learning for contact-rich tasks.
  • Failure recovery and experience memory for robot policies.

Selected papers

Active Observation for Robust Visual Servoing in Robotic Manipulation

Zhilun Hu, Yuqi Cheng, Yuxiang Tan, Wen-pan Li, Weiming Shen.
IEEE CASE 2026 · Accepted · First author

An active camera arm and relative visual servoing help preserve or recover a shared view of the target and gripper during grasping.

Official program · Project

Iterative Verify-and-Refine Vision-Language Agent for Reliable Dual-Arm Manipulation

Yuqi Cheng, Zhilun Hu, Cheng Jiang, Qingyu Peng, Weiming Shen.
Manuscript under review · Second author

VR-Loop combines iterative visual verification and geometric constraints for dual-arm rope untangling.

Project · All papers

Current research

  • T-Rex / Sticks — visuotactile policy adaptation and reinforcement learning for contact-rich manipulation, building on the open-source T-Rex framework. Ongoing research.
  • HELIX — robot failure recovery through value assessment, reflex feedback, and experience memory. Ongoing simulation research.

Explore projects · CV · GitHub