Qi Yin

Ph.D. Student
Colorado School of Mines
qi_yin@mines.edu

About Me

I am a second year PhD student in Robotics at Colorado School of Mines, advised by Prof. Yangming Shi. My research focuses on quadruped robot navigation in complex and unstructured environments.

Research Interests

Reinforcement Learning: robot locomotion, robot navigation
Autonomous Navigation: perception, prediction, path planning, end-to-end

News

[Mar. 2026] Our paper about dynamic navigation is accepted to MEIS(CVPR workshop) 2026.
[Mar. 2026] Our paper about E2E navigation is accepted to ISARC 2026.
[May. 2025] We will host the EV education workshop in Alabama!
[Mar. 2025] Our paper about teacher-student learning is accepted to i3CE 2025.

Publications

MEIS

Mitigating Multi-Module Errors for Reliable Navigation in Dynamic Environments via Online Trajectory Refinement

Qi Yin, Yangming Shi

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2026.

Accept (Oral)

ISARC

ConRobo-Nav: A Quadruped Robot Navigation System for Construction Sites via End-to-End Reinforcement Learning

Qi Yin, Meida Chen, Yangming Shi

43rd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC), 2026.

Early Accept

A Navigation System to Improve Quadruped Robot’s Autonomous Path Planning and Locomotion on Outdoor Construction Site

Qi Yin, Ziming Liu, Meida Chen, Yang Ye, Jing Du, Yangming Shi

under review, 2025.

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i3CE

A Teacher-Student Learning Approach to Improve Quadruped Robot’s Autonomous Locomotion and Obstacle Avoidance on Construction Site

Qi Yin, Yang Ye, Meida Chen, Yangming Shi

ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3CE), 2025.

PDF BibTex Oral Presentation

Projects

Collaborative Research: Pivots: Upskilling Automotive Workers for Future Electrical Vehicle Maintenance and Repair through Immersive Experiential Learning

Colorado School of Mines, Purdue University, University of Alabama

NSF EXLENT Project #2347194, 2347195, 2347196

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