People
members of the AIRO Lab.
Faculty
Prof. Chih-Yung Wen
BEng, National Taiwan University (NTU)
MSc, Caltech
PhD, Caltech
Head and Chair Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, Director of Research Centre for Unmanned Autonomous System, Associate Director of Research Institute for Sports Science and Technology, Leader of Autonomous & Intelligent Robotics Lab
Professor Wen received his Bachelor of Science degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National Taiwan University in 1986 and Master of Science and PhD from the Department of Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), U.S.A. in 1989 and 1994 respectively. He worked at Caltech as a Research Fellow from February 1994 to July 1994 and then continued his teaching and research works at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Da-Yeh University, Taiwan. He was promoted to full professorship in February 2002. He had been the Chairman of the Department of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering from August 1997 to July 2000, and the Provost from August 2004 to July 2006 in the Da-Yeh University, Taiwan. In August 2006, Professor Wen joined the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics of the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan, before joining the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2012 as professor. He served as the associate head/research of ME department from May 2015 to October 2019. He is currently the Head and Chair Professor of Aeronautical Engineering of the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, and the Associate Director of Research Institute for Sports Science and Technology. Professor Wen has authored and co-authored more than 300 scientific papers, conference papers and book chapters. He was also awarded 14 patents. Professor Wen, currently a HKIE Fellow and an AIAA Associate Fellow, actively engages in professional academic activities related to mechanical and aerospace engineering at both domestic and international levels. In addition, he serves as a member of, various key professional boards and bodies related to the Aerospace Engineering.
Dr. Boyang Li
BEng, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU)
MSc, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU)
PhD, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPolyU)
Lecturer in Aerospace Systems Engineering, Leader of Autonomous Aerial Systems Group
Dr Boyang Li is currently a Lecturer in Aerospace Systems Engineering at the School of Engineering, University of Newcastle. Between 2020 and 2023, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering (AAE), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), where he founded the Autonomous Aerial Systems Laboratory (AASL). Before that, he had been a postdoctoral researcher at the Air Traffic Management Research Institute (ATMRI), Nanyang Technology University (NTU), Singapore and the Soft Systems Group, University of Edinburgh, UK during 2019 and 2020. He received a PhD degree at the High-speed Thermo-fluid and MAV/UAV Laboratory (HTML) of PolyU, Hong Kong and the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in Aeronautical Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), China.
Dr. Bing Wang
BEng, Shenzhen University (SZU)
DPhil, Oxford University
Assistant Professor
Dr Bing WANG is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He obtained his DPhil/PhD degree in 2022 from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. His research interests broadly lie in the design of intelligent perception solutions for autonomous systems, and the development of reliable 3D scene understanding algorithms on mobile robotics operating in the real world.
Dr. Tianqi Wang
BEng, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT)
PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Research Assistant Professor
Dr Wang received his BEng degree in Flight Vehicle Design and Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 2017 and PhD degree in Mechanical and Automation Engineering (MAE) from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2021. Before joining the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering at PolyU, he was respectively a Research Assistant and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of MAE of CUHK from August 2021 to March 2022 and from April 2022 to October 2022. His research interests include various advanced control methodologies of aircraft and spacecraft systems as well as mobile robots, including cooperative control, adaptive control, sliding mode control, model predictive control, and event-triggered control. He has been invited three times to contribute papers on the topic of event-triggered control at invited sessions of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and IFAC World Congress. Dr Wang is a Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Dr. Yu Li
BEng, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU)
MSc, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU)
PhD, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU)
PostDoc Researcher
Dr. Yu LI received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Control Science and Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, in 2016, 2019, and 2023, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the City University of Hong Kong before joining HKPolyU. His current research interests include control theory applications, fault diagnosis, and fault-tolerant control, as well as guidance, navigation, and control of UAVs.
Dr. Kang Liu
BEng, Donghua University (DHU)
PhD, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
PostDoc Researcher
Dr. Kang Liu received the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2022. He was with the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K. as a Postdoctoral Researcher prior to his appointment at HKPolyU. His research interests include theoretical researches and engineering applications in intelligence control algorithms and precision agriculture systems, such as deep learning, fuzzy control and neural networks for unmanned aerial vehicles, spacecraft dynamics, and autonomous vehicles, drone remote sensing, agricultural big data, and pest and disease identification.
Students
Tse Kwai Wa Sky
BEng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
PhD Candidate
Sep 2019 - Present
Research Interest:
Object Detection, 3D Reconstruction, UAV Inspection
Bailun Jiang
BEng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPolyU)
MSc, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPolyU)
PhD Candidate
Sep 2021 - Present
Research Interest:
Model Predictive Control, Quadrotor, Tail-Sitter VTOL UAV, Autonomous Drifting
Yefeng Yang
BEng, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT)
PhD Candidate (HIT HKPolyU Dual-PhD)
Sep 2021 - Present
Research Interest:
Control Theory, Reinforcement Learning, Path Planning, Quadrotor, Multi-Agent Systems
Ho Wang Tong Canning
BEng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPolyU)
PhD Candidate
Sep 2021 - Present
Research Interest:
Multi-Agent Path Planning, UAV Inspection
Tao Huang
BEng, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT)
PhD Candidate (HIT HKPolyU Dual-PhD)
Sep 2022 - Present
Research Interest:
Control Theory, Reinforcement Learning, Quadrotor
Wenyu Yang
BEng, Ocean University of China (OUC)
Msc, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT)
PhD Candidate
Sep 2022 - Present
Research Interest:
Sensor Calibration, Lidar SLAM, Sensor Fusion, UAV Inspection
Qihang Peng
BEng, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC)
MSc, University of South California (USC)
PhD Candidate
Sep 2022 - Present
Research Interest:
Multi-Agent Planning, Reinforcement Learning
Patrick Li-Yu Lo
BEng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPolyU)
MPhil Candidate
Sep 2022 - Present
Research Interest:
Heterogeneous Systems, Landing Systems, UUV
Yang Hu
BEng, University of Sydney
MPhil Candidate
Sep 2022 - Present
Research Interest:
Model Predictive Control, UUV
Hiu Ching Cheung Athena
BEng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPolyU)
MPhil Candidate
Sep 2022 - Present
Research Interest:
Aerial Manipulation, Soft Manipulator
Haochen Hu
BEng, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA)
MSc, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPolyU)
PhD Student
May 2023 - Present
Research Interest:
3D Reconstruction, Deep Learning
Peiyuan Zhang
MSc, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
PhD Student
Sep 2023 - Present
Research Interest:
Multi-Agent Differential Game
Yuanbo Xue
BEng, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA)
MSc, Beihang
PhD Student
Sep 2023 - Present
Research Interest:
Sensor Fusion, Underwater SLAM
Zhengyan Zhang
BEng, Nanjing Tech University
MEng, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT)
PhD Student
Jan 2024 - Present
Research Interest:
3D Vision and Robot Navigation, UUV, Surgical Robotics, Deep Learning
Zheng Tan
MSc, Civil Aviation University of China (CAUC)
PhD Candidate (NPU HKPolyU Dual-PhD)
Jan 2024 - Present
Research Interest:
Fix Wing Path Planning
Rugang Tang
BEng, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU)
PhD Student (NPU HKPolyU Dual-PhD)
Jan 2024 - Present
Research Interest:
Multi-Agent
Yifei Zhang
BEng, Southwest University (SWU)
MEng, Southwest University (SWU)
PhD Student
Sep 2024 - Present
Research Interest:
Path Planning, SLAM, Robot Navigation
Yuzhou Li
BEng, University of Alberta
MPhil Student
Sep 2024 - Present
Research Interest:
Aerial Manipulation
Alumnus
Dr. Ran Duan
2022 PhD
Thesis Title:
Visual smart navigation for UAV mission-oriented flight
Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Qianyu Zhou
2022 MSc
Thesis Title:
Conceptual design and analysis of a tail-sitter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Dr. Weifeng Zhou
2021 PhD
Thesis Title:
Modelling and controlling of an autonomous tail-sitter vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
Affliation: College of Professional and Continuing Education, CPCE, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dr. Shenyang Chen
2021 PhD
Yurong Feng
2020 MSc
Thesis Title:
A real-time object inspection system for unmanned aerial vehicles
Affliation: Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation
Shu Chuen Chris Ip
2018 MSc
Thesis Title:
Wind tunnel experimental study of variable-pitch propeller efficiency for VTOL UAV application
Affliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dr. Jingxuan Sun
2018 PhD
Thesis Title:
Wind-resistant hover control and wind field estimation of a VTOL tail-sitter UAV
Affliation: DJI
Penghui Xu
2017 MSc
Thesis Title:
Aerodynamics of VTOL UAV
Affliation: Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University