Haitong Wang

Haitong Wang 王海同

I'm a PhD student at the University of Toronto, advised by Prof. Goldie Nejat. Previously, I completed my bachelor's degree at Beihang University.

I am interested in robot learning, with a focus on enabling generalizable navigation and manipulation for mobile robots.

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Research

Highlighted are led or co-led by me.

	SplatSearch: Instance Image Goal Navigation for Mobile Robots using 3D Gaussian Splatting and Diffusion Models Siddarth Narasimhan, Matthew Lisondra, Haitong Wang, Goldie Nejat Preprint, 2025 website / arXiv / video / code
	X-Nav: Learning End-to-End Cross-Embodiment Navigation for Mobile Robots Haitong Wang, Aaron Hao Tan, Angus Fung, Goldie Nejat Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026 website / arXiv / video
	Mobile Robot Navigation Using Hand-Drawn Maps: A Vision Language Model Approach Aaron Hao Tan, Angus Fung, Haitong Wang, Goldie Nejat Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026 arXiv / video
	MLLM-Search: A Zero-Shot Approach to Finding People using Multimodel Large Language Models Angus Fung, Aaron Hao Tan, Haitong Wang, Beno Benhabib, Goldie Nejat Robotics, 2025 arXiv / video
	Find Everything: A General Vision Language Model Approach to Multi-Object Search Daniel Choi, Angus Fung, Haitong Wang, Aaron Hao Tan International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025 CoRL workshop on Language and Robot Learning, 2024 website / arXiv / video
	NavFormer: A Transformer Architecture for Robot Target-Driven Navigation in Unknown and Dynamic Environments Haitong Wang, Aaron Hao Tan, Goldie Nejat Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025 arXiv / video
	Five-Fingered Passive Force Feedback Glove Using a Variable Ratio Lever Mechanism Yuan Guo, Xiuping Yang, Haitong Wang, Yuru Zhang, Weiliang Xu, Dangxiao Wang Actuators, 2021 paper
	Achieving High Stiffness Range of Force Feedback Gloves using Variable Stiffness Mechanism Yuan Guo, Dangxiao Wang, Ziqi Wang, Xiuping Yang, Haitong Wang, Yuru Zhang, Weiliang Xu IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), 2019 paper

Projects

	8-DOF Quadruped Robot, ABU Robocon 2019 We built a 8-DOF quadruped robot from scratch for the Robocon 2019 competition, and won the national second place. Developed with my teammates from the Beihang Robotics Team.
	Soft Haptic Glove with Force and Thermal Feedback, 2019 Developed the thermal control system for a soft haptic glove with force and thermal feedback, work done with Ziqi Wang, and Prof. Dangxiao Wang.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant for MIE443 Mechatronics Systems: Design and Integration, 2024 Winter, 2025 Winter, 2025 Fall

Reviewer

Reviewer for RA-L, IROS, CoRL.

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