During my Master and Ph.D. period, I focused on the controlling of dynamical legged robots. The main concern of this is to stabilize the walking or running of legged robots under the real-time requirement of online motion planning. Another key point is to utilize whole body dynamics to regulate the interaction between the feet and ground. My research on this involves optimization-based torque control and online planning. I believe these are also essential characteristics for robots to get out of laboratories, factories and come to our everyday life. I cannot wait to witness the coming of smart robots [Curriculum Vitae][简历].
Education
- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia [website] - Ph.D.
- Time and place: 2014.11-current, Genoa, Italy
- Research Line: Humanoids and Human Centered Mechatronics.
- Harbin Institute of Technology [website] - Master
- Harbin Institute of Technology [website] - Bachelor
- Time and place: 2007.08-2011.07, Harbin, China
- Major: Mechanical Design, Manufacture and Automation.
Projects
- Locomotion Control for Humanoid Robot WALKMAN [video]
- Period: Nov. 2014-Current
- Description: Ph.D. thesis in Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. Focused on optimization-based high-level trajectory planning and low-level torque control on the whole-body humanoid robot as part of FP7 European project WALK-MAN.
- Control Software Development for Cooky Robot Arms of MROBOT Ltd [website]
- Period: Mar. 2017-May 2017
- Description: A short-term working package for the robot arm development of MROBOT Ltd. Based on ROS, developed a uniform control platform to perform simulation in Gazebo and run experiments on real robots with easy switch.
- Design Engineer in Sensata Technoloyies [website]
- Period: July 2013-Nov. 2014
- Description: Worked as a design engineer in an American Company ”Sensata Technologies” in China mainland, mainly in charge of the design of automotive pressure transducer.
- Control Method Study of Stable Quadruped Trot Running [video] [picture]
- Period: July 2011-July 2013
- Description: Master thesis subordinated to the national 863 project of China. A combined simulation platform of ADAMS and MATLAB was built for a 3D quadruped robot. Different control strategies were investigated to realize stable running of quadruped robots.
- Design and Manufacture of Contact Resistance Measuring Instrument [picture]
- Period: June 2012-Oct. 2012
- Description: A delicate fixture and a 3-axis motion platform were built to automatically measure the contact resistance between electrical contacts with static contact force control accuracy +0.005N and position control accuracy 0.1mm.
- Software Development for Vitesse2 Microwave Oven of Whirlpool Ltd [website] [picture]
- Period: Oct. 2010-June 2011
- Description: Bachelor thesis as a University and Whirlpool Joint R&D project. A synthetical control program, running in STM8 micro-controller, was developed successfully for the whole Vitesse2 microwave oven series, one software for different specifications.
- Design of Portable and Multi-functional Rescue Instrument [picture]
- Period: Sept. 2009-Sept. 2010
- Description: Won national first prize in the fourth national undergraduate mechanical innovative design competition with “portable and multifunctional rescue instrument” as team leader.
