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 design and fabricate a whisker-inspired tactile sensor to enable exteroceptive sensing for a biomimetic mouse robot. Owing to its mechanical flexibility and low computational cost, the whisker sensor is ideally suited for assisting the biomimetic mouse robot in navigating confined, poorly lit, and unstructured environments. Ultimately, this sensor will be integrated into the mouse robot to build a tactile SLAM system, serving to enhance both the robot's environmental awareness and its reactive agility during operation.

• [MA|SA|BA] A Magnetically Transduced Whisker Sensor Array with Heterogeneous Morphologies
• [MA|SA|BA] Dynamic Contact Estimate based on A Whisker-Inspired Tactile Sensor
• [MA|SA|BA] Collision-Aware Locomotion Adaptation for Agile Biomimetic Mouse Robots
• [MA|SA|BA] Tactile SLAM and Bio-Inspired Navigation Using Whisker Sensors for Biomimetic Mouse 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 The proposal documents are sometimes outdated; we are focusing on the following key points in the current stage: A, Further enhancing the design whisker sensor with a mannully defined curvature, robust suspension mechanism, and a biologically inspired array pattern for improved spatial sensing; B, Integrating the whisker sensors onto the biomimetic mouse robot platform and enabling a rapid, reactive behaviors based on contact events; C, Developing onboard self-estimation capabilities for the robot using IMU data and joint feedback