About me
I’m a Ph.D. student in School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech, specializing in Robotics. I’m advised by Dr. Ye Zhao at the Laboratory for Intelligent Decision and Autonomous Robots (LIDAR).
Prior to that, I received an M.S. also in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2020 and a B.Eng. in Automation from Northeastern University (China) in 2018.
My research interests center around optimization-based planning, control, and estimation for contact-rich manipulation and legged locomotion, especially in:
1) Distributed trajectory optimization and model predictive control;
2) Task and motion planning for single- and multi-robot system;
3) Safe contact planning in cluttered environments.
I also collaborated closely with SkyMul to automate the rebar tying process using quadrupedal robots. Check out some of the cool things we showcased at WOC 2024!
News:
- Jan 2025: My work with MERL on proprioceptive contact state and force estimation has been accepted by ICRA 2025. See you in Atlanta!
- Jan 2024: I start my internship at MERL!
- May 2023: Our work on soft contact manipulation is finally accepted by TRO!
- Jan 2023: One paper on vision-based navigation has been accepted by ICRA 2024.
- June 2022: Our momentum-aware trajectory optimization and MPC paper has been accepted by RA-L. [pdf]
- May 2022: Our multi-robot task allocation and planning work has been accepted by CASE 2022! The extended version is attached. [pdf]
Selected Publications:
Please check out my Google Scholar page for the full list of my publications.
Simultaneous Collision Detection and Force Estimation for Dynamic Quadrupedal Locomotion
Ziyi Zhou, Stefano Di Cairano, Yebin Wang, Karl Berntorp
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025 (accepted)
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