CV

Education

B.S. in Mechanical and Automation Engineering, Hohai University, 2012
M.S. in Naval and Ocean Engineering, Zhejiang University, 2015
Ph.D in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis, 2021

2017-2019: Research Assistant
- University of California, Davis
- Duties included: Crop-transport robots system in strawberry harvesting
- Supervisor: Stavros G. Vougioukas
2020-2021: Research Assistant
- University of California, Davis
- Duties included: Co-bot for Grapebot harvesting
- Supervisor: Stavros G. Vougioukas.
March 2021: Post-doctoral Scholar
- University of California, Davis
- Duties included: IoT system development for data collection in the harvesting scenario
- Supervisor: Stavros G. Vougioukas.
Feb 2022: Research Scientist
- MU-robotix
- Duties included: Robotic system design, Planning and Control of E-tractor
July 2022: Researcher (PI)
- HIC-ZJU & ZJU
- Duties included: Research on agricultural robotics

Proficient in ROS/ROS2 package development (C++/Python)
Optimization based path planning and tracking for mobile robot in the orchard;
- Application of OBCA for headland manuvering of E-tractor;
- Kinodynamic model based optimal control of E-tractor;
Experienced in mathematical modeling of vehicle logistics problems;
- Online heuristic discrete optimization;
- Gurobi solver;
- CPLEX solver;
Experienced in RTK-GPS based localization solution;
- Vehicle Model based state estimation with other sensor data;
- Sensor fusion of IMU and Odometry (visual odometry/wheel odometry);
Experienced in navigation of mobile robots in the agricultrural field;
- Software-based Ackerman steering control;
- Path planning (Dubins, RRT);
- Path tracking (Pure-pursuit, MPC);