Welcome to my homepage. My name is Hongchao Zhao (赵虹超). I am a researcher in robotics and autonomous driving, with interest in state estimation and motion planning. I got my PhD from Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). My supervisor is Prof. Yun-Hui Liu. I was also with the CUHK T Stone Robotics Institute. Prior to my Ph.D. studies, I received B.Eng. in Mechatronic Engineering from Central South University, Changsha, China.
You can find my detailed research and engineering works in Projects, and you can find me via Contact.
Ph. D., Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Aug. 2016 – Aug. 2021
B. Eng., College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Central South University, Sep. 2012 – Jul. 2016
Hongchao Zhao, W. Chen, S. Zhou, F. Zheng and Y. -H. Liu, "Localization and Motion Planning of Industrial Tractor–Trailers Vehicles," in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology(T-CST), vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 2928-2936, Nov. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TCST.2023.3275497.
Hongchao Zhao, Shunbo Zhou, Wen Chen, Zhiqiang Miao and Yunhui Liu, "Modeling and Motion Control of Industrial Tractor–Trailers Vehicles Using Force Compensation," in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (T-MECH), vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 645-656, April 2021, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2021.3057898.
Hongchao Zhao, Wen Chen, Shunbo Zhou and Yunhui Liu, "Parameter Estimation of an Industrial Car-Like Tractor," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 4480-4487, July 2021, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2021.3068943.
Hongchao Zhao, Zhe Liu, Zhiqiang Li, Shunbo Zhou, Wen Chen, Chuanzhe Suo and Yunhui Liu, “Modelling and Dynamic Tracking Control of Industrial Vehicles with Tractor-trailer Structure,” in Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intell. Robots Syst. (IROS), pp. 2905-2910, Macau, China, 2019.
Hongchao Zhao, Wen Chen, Shunbo Zhou, Zhe Liu, Fan Zheng, and Yunhui Liu, “Online Trajectory Planning for an Industrial Tractor Towing Multiple Full Trailers,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robot. Autom. (ICRA), pp. 6089-6095, Paris, France, 2020.
Hongchao Zhao, Wen Chen, Shunbo Zhou and Yunhui Liu, “Parameter Estimation of an Industrial Car-like Tractor,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robot. Autom. (ICRA), Xian, China, 2021.
S. Zhou, H. Zhao, W. Chen, Z. Miao, Z. Liu, H. Wang, and Y.-H. Liu, “Robust Path Following of the Tractor-Trailers System in GPS-Denied Environments,” IEEE Robot. Autom. Lett. (RA-L), vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 500-507, 2020. (RA-L 2019 Honorable Mention Best Paper Award)
S. Zhou, H. Zhao, W. Chen, Z. Liu, H. Wang, and Y.-H. Liu, “Robust Dynamic State Estimation for Lateral Control of a Heavy Tractor Towing Multiple Passive Trailers,” in Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intell. Robots Syst. (IROS), Las Vegas, USA, 2020, Accepted.
S. Zhou, H. Zhao, W. Chen, Z. Miao, Z. Liu, H. Wang, and Y.-H. Liu, “Robust Path Following of the Tractor-Trailers System in GPS-Denied Environments,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robot. Autom. (ICRA), Paris, France, 2020.
W. Chen, Z. Liu, H. Zhao, S. Zhou, H. Li, and Y.-H. Liu, "CUHK-AHU Dataset: Promoting Practical Self-Driving Applications in the Complex Airport Logistics, Hill and Urban Environments," in Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intell. Robots Syst. (IROS), Las Vegas, USA, 2020.
Y.-H. Liu, Z. Liu, S. Zhou, H. Zhao, W. Chen, and C. Suo, “Systems and Methods for Place Recognition Based on 3D Point Cloud” U.S. Non-Provisional Patent, US 16/665,814, 2020.
Teaching Assistant: CUHK ENGG1410C Linear Algebra and Vector Calculus for Engineers, Spring 2018 & Spring 2019
Teaching Assistant: CUHK ENGG2420E Complex Analysis and Differential Equations for Engineers, Fall, 2017 & Fall 2018
Teaching Assistant: CUHK Robotics Team for Robocon 2017 Contest, Fall, 2016 – Spring, 2017 .