Zongyuan Shen
Postdoctoral Fellow at Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
I am a postdoctoral fellow at Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. Matthew Travers and Prof. Howie Choset. Before that, I received my Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Connecticut.
Research: I am passionate about developing motion and path planning algorithms that allow the robots to perform various tasks safely in complex, dynamic, and unknown environments. In particular, my current research involves following topics:
- Motion Replanning: plan a new path in response to the changes in the environment for uninterrupted safe navigation. Applications include self-driving car in urban traffic and service robot in an environment with pedestrians.
- Coverage Path Planning: plan a path to enable a robot to cover all points in the area of interest to provide complete coverage. Applications include floor cleaning, lawn mowing, and seabed mapping.
- Autonomous Exploration: generates a sequence of sensor viewpoints to explore and map the environments to gather information. Applications include structure inspection, search and rescue, and environmental monitoring.
Feel free to contact me if you are interested in my research and want to discuss potential collaborations.
