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Bio

Welcome! I am currently a Ph.D. student at PRG (Perception and Robotics Group), University of Maryland - College Park, advised by Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos and Dr. Cornelia Fermuller. I am also working with Dr. Ji Zhang in CMU. Formerly I was a visiting student in Fast Lab, Zhejiang University (ZJU), advised by Prof. Fei Gao.

My research interests are perception and motion planning for mobile robots. I am especially interested in systematic solutions that make the robot system actually work in various field scenarios. I hope I can build a super cool and useful robot that helps people improve their life!

I open source most of my research, please check my Github for more infomation.
If any repository does not work for you, please report an issue or drop me an email. If it does not work at all, please kick me.

If you are interested in my research or would like to have a talk, feel free to drop me an email.

Publications

Microsaccade-inspired Event Camera for Robotics

Botao He, et al.

Science Robotics, Accepted - Technical Hold, to be released

Leveraging an Active Prism to Enhance Feature Detection in Event Cameras

Botao He, Ze Wang, Yuan Zhou, Jingxi Chen, Chahat Deep Singh, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos, Chao Xu and Fei Gao.

Technical Report

Paper

GPA-Teleoperation: Gaze Enhanced Perception-aware Safe Assistive Aerial Teleoperation

Qianhao Wang*, Botao He*, Zhiren Xun and Fei Gao.

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2022).

Paper Video Code

FAST-Dynamic-Vision: Detection and Tracking Dynamic Objects with Event and Depth Sensing

Botao He*, Haojia Li*, Siyuan Wu, Dong Wang, Zhiwei Zhang, Qianli Dong, Chao Xu, and Fei Gao

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021).

Paper Video Code

Whole-Body Real-Time Motion Planning for Multicopters

Shaohui Yang, Botao He, Zhepei Wang, Chao Xu, and Fei Gao

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021)

Paper Video

Projects

Texture-enhanced Event Camera
A systematic solution that makes event camera maintain rich and stable texture information.

Advanced Pilot Assistance System (APAS).
A gaze enhanced perception-aware assistive teleoperation framework, making drone operation easy for everyone.

Event-based Perception
Perception involving depth and event sensing, with low latency and high precision.

Whole-body Motion Planning for UAVS
A full-body, optimization-based, yaw-considered real-time motion planning framework for aerial robots. The time consumption and memory usage of our method surpasses others.

Light-weight Quadruped Robot
A light-weight quadruped designed and built in fresh year.

UAV Natural Gas Pipeline Inspection
An autonumous inspection UAV system. It is feasible of our system to save people from inspecting in dangerous places like cliffs!

Electromagnetic Throw System
A throw system that is able to automunously find the target, estimate target's depth and calculate parabola.

Challenge Arena Fighting
An autonomous robot with ability to move over terrains, detect and attack the opponent autonomously.

Texture-enhanced Event Camera
A systematic solution that makes event camera maintain rich and stable texture information.

Advanced Pilot Assistance System (APAS).
A gaze enhanced perception-aware assistive teleoperation framework, making drone operation easy for everyone.

Event-based Perception
Perception involving depth and event sensing, with low latency and high precision.

Light-weight Quadruped Robot
A light-weight quadruped designed and built in fresh year.

UAV Natural Gas Pipeline Inspection
An autonumous inspection UAV system. It is feasible of our system to save people from inspecting in dangerous places like cliffs!

Electromagnetic Throw System
A throw system that is able to automunously find the target, estimate target's depth and calculate parabola.

Challenge Arena Fighting
An autonomous robot with ability to move over terrains, detect and attack the opponent autonomously.

Awards

First Prize, Academic Scholarship(~5%), NJIT, 2018-2021

First Prize of Jiangsu province, National College Student Electronics Design Contest, , 2019

Second Prize, National Intelligent Robot Fighting Competition, , 2019

Third Prize, The 8th National University Contest on Intelligent Robotic Innovations, , 2019

Stack Overflow, If the Best Baby in Kindergarten(<1%) counts, I didn't even win it, , 2023

Experiences

Carnegie Mellon University May, 2023 - NOW

Visiting Student
Advised by Prof. Ji Zhang.
University of Maryland Sep, 2022 - NOW

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
PRG (Perception & Robotics Group). Advised by Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos and Dr. Cornelia Fermuller.
Zhejiang University Feb, 2020 - Aug, 2022

Visiting Student
FAST (Field Autonomous System & compuTing) Lab. Advised by Prof. Fei Gao.
Nanjing Institute of Technology Sep, 2018 - June, 2022

Undergraduate
Major in Robot Engineering.

Acknowledgement

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