Yafu Tian

Research Interests

Semantic SLAM, Object Detection and Recognition, Environment reconstruction

Education

  • since 2017.9 Ph.D. Candidate
    • Harbin Institute of Technology
    • State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System
    • Majoring in Robotics (Software system)
  • 2016-2017 Ph.D. Student
    • Harbin Institute of Technology
    • State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System
    • Majoring in Robotics (Software system)
  • 2012-2016 Undergraduate
    • Harbin Engineering University
    • Chen Geng experimental class.
    • Specializing control theory and computer science.
    • GPA 3.8 with 4.0 overall

Skills

  • Programming (C++, Python .etc)
  • Machine learning (statistical)
  • Writing hardware driver
  • Data visualization (networkX, matplotlib, openGL .etc)
  • LaTeX
  • ROS
  • Image processing & feature extraction
  • Graph theory and graph based algorithm
  • Control theory and state estimation

Awards

  • 2013.5 National Air Model Competition Second prize
  • 2013.10 Chinese Robot Competition & RoboCup (AUV event) First prize
  • 2014.9 Chinese Robot Competition & RoboCup (AUV event) First prize
  • 2014.6 Mathematical Modeling of Northeastern Provinces League Second prize
  • 2013-2015 Scholarship for Outstanding Student (6 times with 6 overall)
  • 2013.10 Merit Student
  • 2013.10 Master of Sports & Certified Judge Grade 2 for Volleyball

Projects:

  • 2016-2017 Robot Software System & Controller on Mobile Platform (Check my website for details)
    • In charge of the whole software system of Medical Patrol Robot XiaoBai
    • In charge of the whole software system of Patrol Robot XiaoHuang
    • Implement hardware driver, middleware, SLAM function, user Interface(QT version and HTML5 version), error detection
  • 2016-2017 Fast map segmentation method based on spectral partition for robot semantic navigation (1 SCI and 1 EI Conference Paper)
  • 2015-2016 SLAM and Navigation System for Indoor Patrol Robot (Graduation Design)
  • 2015.8 Neusoft Internship (Embedded system development)
  • 2013-2015 Robot software system development in Control model innovation laboratory
    • Participate in writing AUV (Underwater Autonomous Robot) Controller and Hardware Driver.
    • Responsible for object detection and state estimation.
  • 2012-2013 Robot software system development in Control model innovation laboratory
    • Writing aeromodel and UGV hardware driver.
    • Writing path planner and base controller.

Publications

  • Tian Y, Wang K, Li R and Zhao L (2016) Fast map segmentation method based on spectral partition for robot semantic navigation. In: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation. pp. 10591065. DOI:10.1109/ ICMA.2016.7558709.
  • Yafu Tian,Ke Wang, Ruifeng Li, Lijun Zhao A Fast Incremental Map Segmentation Algorithm Based on Spectral Clustering and Quad Tree. (under review)

Other information

My life goal is to implement science fiction vision of advanced artificial intelligence. And I devote myself to any research field which will help. A more actual goal is to make robot learning and recognizing environment automatically. In past few years I focused on state estimation and environment recognition problem of different robots (Aeromodel, AGV and AUV).