Curriculum Vitae

I have been accepted as a PhD candidate in the Institute of Informatics, Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Real-Time Systems of Technical University of Munich (TUM) since 2023. I'm supervised and mentored by Prof. Alois Knoll, and Dr. Zhenshan Bing. My primary research interest is in whisker-inspired tactile sensing and biomimetic mice robot. Before that, I received my bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from Xidian University, China in 2019 and 2022. I was mainly focusing on adapted SLAM system for medical surgery robots and medical images processing. 

My primary objective here for my PhD program is to incorporate the whisker-inspired tactile sensing mechanism into our biomimetic mice robot, with a particular focus on biological-inspired whisker sensory array design, tactile-based navigation for quadruped mice robot, in current stage. Several important papers have been published or submitted to leading robotics venues such as ICRA, IROS, from our previous works. If you are interested in working on any related topics in this project, feel free to reach out to me via email with your background and interests.

Thesis Proposals

We aim to build a flexible, lightweight tactile sensor based on the biological structure of rodents' vibrissae and apply them on the robot arm, biomimetic rodent robot, and any other platform to provide perception and self-estimate.

• [MA|SA|BA] Dynamic Contact Estimate along A Whisker-inspired Tactile Sensor.
• [MA|SA|BA] Reconstruction of Contacts in Search Space from A Whisker Sensor Array.
• [MA|SA|BA] Contour Reconstruction on Unstructured Environments via Active Tactile Sensing
• [MA|SA|BA] Tactile SLAM and Bio-inspired Navigation based on Whisker Sensor for Rodent Robot

The project is constantly ongoing. Feel free to reach out to me if you are interested in any related topics or aspects. The proposal documents are sometimes outdated; we are focusing on the following key points in the current stage: A, further enhance the whisker sensor with a pre-curved whisker, robust suspension device, and biological-inspired sensory array pattern; B, integrate the whisker sensor onto biomimetic mice robot platform and build a quick reaction from the whisker contact; C, self-estimate of mice robot.