About me

I’m a PhD student in Robotics at Oregon State University, working on locomotion analysis based on geometric mechanics in the Laboratory for Robotics and Applied Mechanics. I received my MS degree in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, working on motion planning and control of bio-inspired legged robots and tailed robots in the Robomechanics Lab. My senior year involved developing UAV motion planning for information gathering and waypoint opportunistic navigation in GNSS-denied environments in the Autonomous Systems Perception, Intelligence, & Navigation Laboratory, part of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the South China University of Technology, working on real-time object detection and recognition based on convolutional neural network and metric learning in the Robot Lab.

My research aims to explore and improve the control and motion planning of highly dynamic robots. Agile animals can go anywhere in the world, and robotics is moving towards this goal. Like animals, robots should also be powerful assistants for patrols, search and rescue, emotional accompaniment, blind guidance, and so on. However, due to technical limitations, most of today’s robots can only stay in factories or warehouses. Therefore, when I saw various autonomous robots in robotics competitions, I was determined to bring them into the real world and daily life to help society. For this reason, I want to better plan and control highly dynamic robots, such as legged robots, bio-inspired robots, and flying robots, to achieve locomotion capabilities beyond animals and enable them to adapt to challenging real-world environments, such as rocky hills and messy houses.