Biography
Yaofeng Cheng is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Mechatronics Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology and the State Key Laboratory of Robotics. He received his B.Eng. degree from the School of Mechatronics Engineering at Wuhan University of Technology. He was sponsored by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to conduct a one-year research exchange at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom.
His research focuses on transparent object perception and robotic manipulation, including depth recovery for transparent objects, point-cloud–based 3D shape estimation, 6-DoF grasp generation guided by spatial geometry, and task-oriented grasping. He has also worked on neural network model pruning. His current research interests include transparent object manipulation, sparse algorithms for large models, and vision-language-action (VLA) systems.
You can find more about his research interests and ongoing projects on his GitHub page.
Seleted Publications
PCF-Grasp: Converting Point Completion to Geometry Feature to Enhance 6-DoF Grasp
Yaofeng Cheng, Fusheng Zha, Wei Guo, Pengfei Wang, Chao Zeng, Lining Sun, Chenguang Yang
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2025.11.12
A2G: Leveraging Intuitive Physics for Force-Efficient Robotic Grasping
Yaofeng Cheng, Shengkai Liu, Fusheng Zha*, Wei Guo, Haoyu Du, Pengfei Wang, Zhenshan Bing
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024.5.16
Rethinking Transparent Object Grasping: Depth Completion with Monocular Depth Estimation and Instance Mask
Yaofeng Cheng, Xinkai Gao, Sen Zhang, Chao Zeng, Fusheng Zha, Lining Sun, Chenguang Yang
Arxiv, 2025.8.4
Learning effective pruning at initialization from iterative pruning
Shengkai Liu*, Yaofeng Cheng*(Equal Contribution), Fusheng Zha, Wei Guo, Lining Sun, Zhenshan Bing, Chenguang Yang
Arxiv, 2024.8.27
Personal Education
- Ph.D. in Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, 2020 – Present
- Joint Ph.D. Training Program, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2024 – 2025
- B.S. in Mechatronics Engineering , Wuhan University of Technology, China, 2016 – 2020