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Xiong You is a leading researcher in autonomous robotics, specializing in semantic mapping, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), and path planning for complex, dynamic environments. Their work bridges the gap between geometric sensing and semantic understanding, enabling robots to perceive and navigate unstructured spaces with human-like awareness. Notably, their 2018 paper "Combining ElasticFusion with PSPNet for RGB-D Based Indoor Semantic Mapping" (13 citations) pioneered the integration of deep semantic segmentation with dense geometric mapping, a foundational contribution to indoor robotic manipulation. You further advanced SLAM robustness in their 2021 study "LiDAR-Based SLAM under Semantic Constraints in Dynamic Environments" (10 citations), which mitigates pose estimation errors caused by moving objects—a critical step toward real-world deployment. Their innovative hexagon-based generalized Voronoi diagrams (2020, 7 citations) introduced a novel grid representation for efficient path planning, while their 2022 work on LiDAR-based real-time panoptic segmentation (7 citations) unified semantic and instance segmentation for holistic scene understanding. Most recently, their 2025 dual-layer BEV navigation system demonstrates continued leadership in outdoor robotic autonomy. With a research portfolio that consistently pushes the boundaries of perception and planning, Xiong You is shaping the future of intelligent, environment-aware robots.