I’m a master student at the FASTLAB of Zhejiang University, supervised by Prof.Yanjun Cao, Fei Gao, and Chao Xu. I graduated with a Bachelor’s degree of Robotics Engineering with honor from Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University. Currently, I’m preparing to apply for PhD research program.

Research Interests

My research lies in planning, including decision-making and motion planning. I mainly focus on optimization-based and explainable learning-based methods. I am committed to enabling robots to collaboratively and actively perceive in unknown spaces, to overcome single robot’s shortages. At the same time, I focus on developing efficient and explainable motion planning algorithms for robots field navigation in challenging scenarios. I’d like to see robots could adjust self behaviors smartly based on its learned knowledge and current observations. Making robots move elegantly is my passion. My current research interets include

• Multi-robot active perception for collaboration
• Large scale parallel motion planning
• Model-based policy optimization

Publications

• Cost-effective Swarm Navigation System via Close Cooperation [paper] [video]

  Nanhe Chen, Zhehan Li, Lun Quan, Xinwei Chen, Chao Xu, Fei Gao, and Yanjun Cao

  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

• TOP: Trajectory Optimization via Parallel Optimization towards Constant Time Complexity [paper] [video]

  Jiajun Yu*, Nanhe Chen*, Guodong Liu, Chao Xu, Fei Gao, and Yanjun Cao

  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (Under Review)

• Universal Trajectory Optimization Framework for Differential Drive Robot Class [paper] [video] [code]

  Mengke Zhang, Nanhe Chen, Hu Wang, Jianxiong Qiu, Zhichao Han, Qiuyu Ren, Chao Xu, Fei Gao, and Yanjun Cao

  IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

• ColAG: A Collaborative Air-Ground Framework for Perception-Limited UGVs’ Navigation [paper] [video]

  Zhehan Li, Rui Mao, Nanhe Chen, Chao Xu, Fei Gao, and Yanjun Cao

  2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

• Cross-Vehicle Transition Framework for Quadrotor Control in Air-Ground Cooperation

  Qiuyu Ren, Miao Xu, Mengke Zhang, Nanhe Chen, Mingwei Lai, Chao Xu, Fei Gao, and Yanjun Cao

  Autonomous Robots (Under Review)