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Hi, I am a postdoctoral fellow at Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. I obtained my PhD and bachelor degree from Nanyang Technology University, Singapore. My research interests are aerial robots, multi-robot planning, robot dynamics and control. If you are interested in my research, please contact me via email: caom0006 AT e.ntu.edu.sg
News
- [2024/10] I have started a position as a postdoctor at CMU AirLab!
- [2024/10] We successfully organized IROS 2024 Workshop and Competition on Multi-Robot Perception and Navigation Challenges in Logistics and Inspection Tasks (website). Thanks to all speakers and participants!
- [2024/06] We are organizing the Cooperative Aerial Robots Inspection Challenge (CARIC) (website) in conjunction with IROS 2024 Workshop! .
- [2024/06] Our paper on a novel hybrid aerial-ground manipulator has been accepted by IROS 2024! .
- [2023/10] Our paper on a novel hybrid aerial-ground robot has been awarded the IROS 2023 Best Entainment Paper! .
- [2023/03] Our paper on trajectory planning multi-tethered robots has been accepted bt T-RO! .
Highlights
Trajectory Planning for Multiple Tethered Unmanned Vehicles (IEEE T-RO)
Learning Weighted Trajectory Planning in Crowd (Submitted to ICRA 2025)
AirCrab: A Hybrid Aerial-Ground Manipulator (IROS 2024)
Cooperative Aerial Robots Inspection Challenge (CARIC) @ CDC 2023
A New Hybrid Aerial-Ground Robot (IROS 2023 Best Entertainment Paper)
Planning for Multiple Tethered Robots Using Topological Braids (RSS 2023)
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Distributed Multi-Robot Sweep Coverage Control (T-SMC)
We introduced a coverage control algorithm for multi-robot sweep coverage in a region with unknown and uneven workload distribution. The paper is accepted by IEEE T-SMC. [Paper][Video]
Differential Dynamic Programming-Based Polynomial Trajectory Generation (RA-L)
We introduced a novel polynomial trajectory optimization algorithm leveraging differential dynamic programming. We have also released a solver-free implementation of the algorithm in the package. The algorithm is verified using an UAV in indoor flight experiments. The paper is accepted by IEEE RA-L. [Paper][Video][Code]