About me

Lei Yan, Assistant Professor

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I am an Associate Professor in Robotics at the School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen. Previously, I was a Research Follow within the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh, working with Prof. Sethu Vijayakumar (2019/08-2021/12). I received my PhD degree (2019) and Msc degree (2015) in Mechanical Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology supervised by Prof. Wenfu Xu and my Bsc degree (2013) in Process Control Engineering from Hefei University of Technology.


My research focuses on Dexterous Manipulation, with novel techniques and algorithms developed in several areas including Motion Planning, Trajectory Optimization and Model-based Control. Now I am mainly working on developing optimization algorithm to explore the extreme capability of the robot and improve the performance of collaborative manipulation. In addition, I am very interested in human intention estimation base on learning algorithms.


News

Our paper "Multi-Mode Trajectory Optimization for Impact-Aware Catching of Large-Momentum Objects" was presented at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Impact-Aware Robotics Workshop. 

Our paper "Task-Space Decomposed Motion Planning Framework for Multi-Robot Loco-Manipulation" was accepted for presentation at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). 

Our paper "Decentralized Ability-Aware Adaptive Control for Multi-robot Collaborative Manipulation" was accepted for presentation at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). 

Our paper "Decentralized Ability-Aware Adaptive Control for Multi-robot Collaborative Manipulation" was accepted in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 

Our paper "Multi-mode Trajectory Optimization for Impact-aware Manipulation" was accepted for presentation at the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).