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About Me

Hello, here is Chen Nan (Lawrence, 陈楠).

I am a Ph.D. candidate at The University of Hong Kong (HKU🏫), MaRS LAB, supervised by Dr. Fu Zhang and co-supervised by Prof. James Lam. My research interests lie on the areas of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) design, control, and autonomous navigation.

I am the author of 14 published papers (1 Science Robotics, 1 T-IE, 1 T-MECH, 2 IJRR, 2 RA-L, 1 AIS, 1 T-MAG, 1 ICRA, 3 IROS, 1 PESA).

News and Updates

  • Oct 2023: Our conference paper “Swashplateless-elevon Actuation for a Dual-rotor Tail-sitter VTOL UAV” won IROS Best Paper Award on Robot Mechanisms and Design and IROS 2023 Best Overall and Best Student Paper Finalist. [Paper] [Youtube]

  • Sep 2023: Our paper “Trajectory Generation and Tracking Control for Aggressive Tail-Sitter Flights” is accepted for publication in International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR). [Paper] [Youtube] [Bilibili]

  • Sep 2023: Five papers are accepted by 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

  • Jun 2023: Our paper “Agile motions of a single-actuated, self-rotating UAV”, is selected as the Best Mechanical Design Award at the workshop of “Agile Movements: Animal Behavior, Biomechanics, and Robot Devices” held in 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

  • Mar 2023: Our paper “A self-rotating, single-actuated UAV with extended sensor field of view for autonomous navigation” is published on and visually featured by Science Robotics. Our paper is presented on the homepage of the Science website. [Paper] [Paper_Supplement] [Youtube] [Bilibili]

Education Background

  • The University of Hong Kong (Ph.D.)
  • Shenzhen University (M.Eng)
  • Shenzhen University (B.Eng)