Chong Liu

Robotics Engineer 📍 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Hi there! I'm Chong Liu, a Robotics Engineer based in Shenzhen, China. I hold a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University, specializing in Robotics and Control.

I'm currently focused on humanoid robot reinforcement learning and imitation learning for motion control, working at BridgeDP Robotics Co., Ltd. to deliver customized motion control solutions for client humanoid robots.

I'm fascinated by designing and building advanced, life-like robots, and applying robotics technology to help people in need. This webpage contains my project documentation and resources to start on robotics from scratch. Together, let's make the world a better place!

Chong Liu at Columbia University

🛠️ Projects

Robotics Notebooks

Motion Control · RL · IL · Full-Stack Robotics

A structured robotics knowledge navigation project that uses motion control as the entry point, focusing on reinforcement learning, imitation learning, humanoid robots, and gradually expanding toward perception, planning, software systems, deployment, and full-stack robotics engineering.

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Robot Learning Paper Notebooks

Reinforcement Learning · Imitation Learning · Motion Control

A curated collection of paper reading notes on humanoid robot learning, covering reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and motion control for bipedal locomotion and whole-body control.

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Robot Description Gallery Online

URDF · MJCF · USD · Browser Preview · Model Comparison

Browse, preview, and compare open robot description files and 3D models in URDF, MJCF, USD, and more. View gallery models or open your own files directly in the browser. Every resource loads from a pinned upstream version with clear provenance; nothing is re-hosted.

Robot Joint Order Check Tool Online

URDF · Isaac Lab · MuJoCo · Gazebo · ros2_control

Upload a URDF and compare joint order side by side across Isaac Gym, Isaac Sim / Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, Gazebo, and ros2_control. Highlights mismatches and generates index-remap arrays. Runs entirely in the browser with no upload.

Robot Retarget Online

Motion Retargeting · MuJoCo · TypeScript · WebAssembly

A browser-based robot motion retargeting tool — a pure-frontend port of GMR that runs entirely in the browser via MuJoCo WebAssembly. Load BVH mocap, configure IK mapping, preview retargeted robot motion, and export NPZ/CSV without any backend or installation.

Robot Learning IO Board Online

Policy I/O · Observations · Actions · Rewards · Node Graph

An interactive node-graph board that lays out what a humanoid policy takes in, what it puts out, and which rewards shape it — covering BeyondMimic, SONIC and the MimicKit family (DeepMimic → AWR → AMP → ASE → LCP → ADD → SMP). Every dimension and weight links back to a file path in the upstream implementation, and the training and deployment views can be toggled to show what disappears at deploy time.

Robot Learning Sim2Sim Online

Reinforcement Learning · MuJoCo · ONNX · Vue 3 · WebAssembly

A browser-based demo platform for running humanoid robot RL policy inference in real-time, combining MuJoCo WebAssembly simulation with ONNX Runtime to visualize trained locomotion policies without any local installation.

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Proportional Control Valve

CAD · Mechatronics · Project Management

Designed and manufactured a proportional control valve for pneumatic systems — a mechatronics project involving CAD modeling (Fusion 360), kinematic analysis, tolerance stack-up, spring characterization, and multi-disciplinary team coordination.

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💼 Work Experience

🎓 Education

Columbia University in the City of New York

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering · Robotics & Control · GPA: 3.78/4.0

Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

August 2019 – February 2021 · New York, NY, USA

Higher Ground Helicopters

Airman Certification — Private Helicopter Pilot

March 2019 – May 2019 · Miamisburg, Ohio, USA

Miami University, Oxford

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering · GPA: 3.91/4.0

College of Engineering and Computing

August 2015 – May 2019 · Oxford, Ohio, USA

📝 Research Experience

Publications listed in reverse chronological order. See Google Scholar for citation details.

Fourier Analysis Guided Cable Actuator Design for Coordinated Walking Assistance

Chong Liu, Rand Hidayah, Sunil Agrawal

International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE), ASME · August 2021

Cable-driven exoskeletons add minimal inertia and restrictions to the user's leg while still providing feedback and quantitative measures of the user's performance. This work proposes a Fourier analysis guided approach to reduce the number of actuated motors needed for cable-driven exoskeletons in walking assistance.

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🥇 Honors & Awards

🏡 Family

Marriage Registration

February 13, 2026 · Marriage Registration Office, Nanshan District Civil Affairs Bureau, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

On this meaningful day, I registered my marriage with my beloved wife.