Portrait of Pengyu Jing holding robotics competition trophies

Robot Learning · Manipulation

Pengyu Jing

Ph.D. Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore

I work on robot learning and robotic manipulation, with an emphasis on reinforcement learning, vision-language-action models, simulation, and real-robot systems.

I received my M.Sc. in Robotics from the National University of Singapore and my B.Eng. in Robotics Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

Goal: Build reliable robots that can learn, adapt, and improve through real-world interaction.

Research interests: robotic manipulation, reinforcement learning, vision-language-action models, and sim-to-real transfer.

News

Selected Publications

RARM: Confidence-Gated Progress Reward Modeling for RL in Manipulation

Pengzhi Yang*, Xinyu Wang*, Pengyu Jing*, Kehan Wen*, Yiduo Qu, Zhenhao Huang, Minghao Fu, Xin Liu, Yaheng Shen, Fan Shi

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2026

A lightweight visual comparator that turns one successful demonstration into a dense reward while suppressing uncertain progress estimates that may cause reward hacking.

Additional Publications

  1. Design and Testing of a Pleurotus pulmonarius Stick Cutting Machine. Agriculture, 14(10):1795, 2024.
  2. An Intermittent Fertilization Control System for Fruit Tree Crown Detection. Agriculture, 14(11):1867, 2024.

Selected Experience

2025–2026

Robot Learning and Manipulation Research · NUS

Built VLA data-collection and real-robot rollout infrastructure, reproduced real-world RL baselines, integrated human intervention, and evaluated dense progress rewards on dual-arm manipulation tasks.

2022–2023

Electrical Group Leader · UESTC Robocon Team

Designed STM32 control boards, sensor and IMU modules, CAN/UART networks, a compact FOC motor driver, and embedded firmware for the national-champion elephant and bunny robots.

Honors & Awards

Competition highlights of the elephant and bunny robots from the UESTC Robocon 2023 team.
National ChampionChina National Robocon, 2023
Best Design AwardChina National Robocon, 2023
Third PlaceABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest, 2023
Best Design AwardABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest, 2023

Technical Background

PythonC/C++MATLAB PyTorchPPODSRLVLA / π0 ROS / ROS 2MuJoCoIsaac SimPyBulletFLASHMPPI STM32CANPCB DesignEmbedded SystemsSolidWorks