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Six papers from CLEAR LAB have been accepted by IROS 2021! IROS (IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) is one of two flagship robotic conferences (another is ICRA). Five of the accepted papers are on legged robots, and one paper is about pursuit evasion game. Congratulations!!!! 1. Force-feedback based Whole-body Stabilizer for Position-Controlled Humanoid Robots, by Shunpeng Yang,…
Prof. Jie Huang visited our lab and gave a talk, entitled “The Adaptive Distributed Observer for Uncertain Leader Systems and its Applications”. He is currently the Choh-Ming Li Research Professor of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Prof. Huang is a fellow of IEEE, IFAC, Chinese Association of…
A delegation led by Mayor Rugui Chen visited our lab as part of SUSTech Institute of Robotics during his visit to the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). https://newshub.sustech.edu.cn/html/202011/28799.html
Our work on deploying quadrupedal robots in monitoring and promoting social distance in response to the Covid-19 pandemic was reported by IEEE Spectrum recently.Equipping a quadruped robot with multiple cameras and a 3D-LIDAR, the robot is capable of monitoring and track nearby pedestrian groups. Crowd-aware navigation and routing algorithms are designed to enable the robot…
Lin Zhao, a former PhD student from CLEAR Lab, started a tenure-track faculty position at the National University of Singapore (新加坡国立大学). Before joining NUS, he was a research scientist at Aptiv Pittsburgh Technology Center working on autonomous vehicles. At NUS, Dr. Zhao is affiliated with the Control, Intelligent and Robotics (CISR) Area in ECE Department…
Sen Li, a former PhD student from CLEAR Lab, started his tenure track faculty position at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (香港科技大学). After graduation from CLEAR Lab, Dr. Li spent two years working as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley. His current research interest lies in the intersection of control, optimization and…
Prof. Dongrui Wu visited our lab at and gave a talk, entitled “Fuzzy Logic and Signal Processing/Machine Learning for Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)”. Prof. Wu is currently a Professor at the School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. He has over 120 publications, including a book “Perceptual Computing” (with…
Prof. Jing Sun visited our lab and discussed possible research collaborations in control and robotics. Prof. Sun is currently the Michael G. Parsons Collegiate Professor and the Department Chair of the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She holds 39 US patents, has co-authored a textbook, Robust Adaptive Control…
Prof. Zhang was invited to attend and gave an invited talk at the 2019 International Conference on Automation, Control and Robotics Engineering, held between July 19 – July 21, in Shenzhen, China. Prof. Zhang also chaired the Session on Robotics and presented the “Best Presentation in Session Award” during the award banquet.The conference was held…
July 9-12, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) sent its first student team to compete in the 12th International Underwater Robot Competition, hosted by Shanghai Maritime University, China. The SUSTech student team won 6 prizes in total, four 2nd prizes and two 3rd prizes.Our lab played an important role in this year’s competition. Among…
Four undergraduate students in our lab, Shenggao Li, Chunchu Zhu, Wenchun Lin, and Bolin, They received their Bachelor degree today.Shenggao will join the PhD program at the Norte Dame University, Chunchu will become a PhD student at the Case Western Reserved University, Bolin will become a MS student at University of California, San Diego, and…
Prof. Frank Chongwoo Park visited our lab and gave a talk, entitled “Manifolds, Geometry, and Robotics”.Prof. Park is currently an IEEE Fellow and the chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Seoul National University. Prof. Park and Prof. Zhang also visited the Han’s Robot Co. together to discuss possible collaborations in…
Dr. Hua Chen joined our lab as a research assistant professor. He received a BS degree from Zhejinag University, a PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Ohio State University. Before joining our lab, Dr. Chen was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ohio State University. His research focuses on control and optimization theory…
In collaboration with Robosea, a world-leading company in underwater robotics, we founded the SUSTech-Robosea Joint Lab on Underwater Equipment. The lab will be jointly managed by the Robotics Institute at SUSTech, the Department of Ocean Science & Engineering, and the Robosea company. It is co-directed by Prof. Guangming Xie at Beijing University and Prof. Wei…
We attended the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2019, and presented our paper “Reinforcement Learning Meets Hybrid Zero Dynamics: A Case Study for RABBIT”.
Linfang Zheng joined our lab as a research assistant. She obtained her Bachelor and Master degrees both from the Harbin Institute of Technology. Before joining our lab, she worked at DJI. Welcome Linfang!
