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Simulation & Digital Twins

High-fidelity simulation environments for training and evaluating robot behaviors. Bridging the sim-to-real gap.

Key Skills & Technologies

GazeboUnityIsaac SimDockerPython

Related Projects

Photorealistic Simulation

Photorealistic Simulation

Integration of ISAAC Gym simulation into ArenaNav and development of multimodal training approaches for navigation in crowds.

PythonIsaac GymROS
LLM-based World Generation

LLM-based World Generation

Leveraging LLMs to dynamically generate millions of randomized worlds for training and benchmarking.

PythonMLLLMs

Related Publications

Arena2D - Deep-RL-Based Navigation in Highly Dynamic Environments

Linh Kästner, Cornelius Marx, Jens Lambrecht

IEEE/RSJ IROS 2020, Las Vegas, USA2020-08-01

GROVE: Grounded Pedestrian Simulation via Natural Language for Interactive Social Robot Navigation

Duc Tai Nguyen, Volodymyr Shcherbyna, Anh Do Duc, Zhengcheng Shen, Teham Buiyan, Linh Kästner

IEEE/RSJ IROS 2026, Pittsburgh, USA2026-09-27

D3D-GEN: Robot-Aware Domain-Grounded Interactive 3D World Generation for Social Robotics

Anh Duc Do, Volodymyr Shcherbyna, Tai Duc Nguyen, Spaarsh Thakkar, Zhengcheng Shen, Teham Buiyan, Archan Misra, Linh Kästner

IEEE/RSJ IROS 2026, Pittsburgh, USA2026-09-27

PEDS: Closed-Loop Benchmarking of Social Navigation across Pedestrian Behavior Models

Duc Tai Nguyen, Volodymyr Shcherbyna, Anh Do Duc, Zhengcheng Shen, Linh Kästner

IEEE RA-L + ICRA 2027, Seoul, South Korea2026-10-14

Arena-Rosnav 5.0: A Photorealistic ROS2 Simulation Framework for Developing and Benchmarking Social Navigation

Volodymyr Shcherbyna, Linh Kästner, Huajian Zeng, Giang Nguyen Huu Truong, Tim Lenz, Nam Truong Tran, Ahmed Martban, and Harold Soh

Robotics Science and Systems 2025, Los Angeles, USA2025-04-01

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