I am an Associate Professor of the School of Astronautics of Harbin Institute of Technology. In 2022, I was selected for the Young Talents Support Project of China Association for Science and Technology, and in 2021, I was selected into the Harbin Institute of Technology Young Talents Selection Program. Before joining Harbin Institute of Technology, I was a senior researcher working with Prof. C.Patrick Yue at OWL(Optical Wireless Lab), the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and I was a postdoctoral associate working with Prof. Wei Pan at the Department of Cognitive Robotics, Delft University of Technology. I received my Ph.D. in Aerospace Science and Technology, specialized in intelligent sensing and motion planning, under the supervision of Prof. Jifeng Guo in 2019 from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.

My research goal is to establish an autonomous learning framework for a multi-robot system, especially for applications in special environments (Lunar/Mars rover, rescue robots, etc.). In particular, I am interested in graph Theory, reinforcement Learning, cross-modal perception, motion planning and optimal guidance.

Recent News

• March 04, 2022, I was selected for the Young Talents Support Project of China Association for Science and Technology
• November 02, 2021, I won the Best View Award of the 2nd “Sijiqing” Youth Forum.
• October 17, 2021, I won the Best Organizer Award at the IEEE Internaitonal Conference on Unmanned Systems.
• October 09, 2021, I officially joined Harbin Institute of Technology as an associate professor (top-notch type)!
• September 27, 2021, Our paper “Optimal Path Planning of Planetary Rovers with Safety Considerable” won the Best Paper Award at 2021 International Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Systems. Well done, Haonan!
• August 14, 2021, Our paper “Learning-based Multi-robot Formation Control with Obstacle Avoidance” accepted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. (JCR Q1, IF=6.492)
• July 04, 2021, Our paper “Learning-Based Resilience Guarantee for Multi-UAV Collaborative QoS Management” accepted to Pattern Recognition. (JCR Q1, IF=7.74)
• November 29, 2020, Our paper “Flocking Control of UAV Swarms with Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach” won the 2020 IEEE ICUS Best Paper Award.
• November 28, 2020, IEEE ICUS 2020 is successfully held online. Thanks to Prof. Javier Alonso-Mora, Prof. Amanda Prorok, Prof. Abhinav Valada, Prof. Hyo-sang Shin and many other experts for their keynote reports.
• November 27, 2020, I gave a report entitled “Space Robots Safe Learning with Resilience Guarantee” in the seminar of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Southampton.
• September 5, 2020, Our two papers on multi-robot robust learning have been submitted to Pattern Recognition (PR) and IEEE Transactions Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS).
• July 29, 2020, I am awarded as the Outstanding Young Editorial Board Member for Unmanned System Technology.
• July 21, 2020, Our paper “Optimal Guidance for Planetary Landing in Hazardous Terrains” is published by IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems(TAES).
• April 24, 2020, I am serving as a Guest Editor for Sensors. Special Issue: “Advanced Perception-Planning Fusion Technology in Robotics”
• March 25, 2020, I will serve as a publication chair for ICUS 2020.