Lin Zhao (赵林)
I am a PhD candidate at Deartment of Ocean Engineering, the University of Rhode Island. I am working on Marine Robotics in the Smart Ocean System Lab and supervised by Dr. Mingxi Zhou. I am interested in multi-sensor fusion (e.g., SLAM) for autonomous robotics in the harsh environment (e.g., under-ice).
Before that, I was working in several robotics startups in Hangzhou, China. I got my Master degree of Mechanical Engineering from University of Nevada, Las Vegas. I was working on obstacle avoidance for the drones supervised by Dr. Woosoon Yim.
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Tightly-coupled Visual-DVL-Inertial Odometry for Robot-based Ice-water Boundary Exploration
Lin Zhao, Mingxi Zhou, Brice Loose
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023
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We use Doppler Velocity Log (DVL) non-uniform sparse point clouds to aid feature estimation and improve the under-ice localization.
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Towards Under-ice Sensing using a Portable ROV
Lin Zhao, Mingxi Zhou, Brice Loose
OCEANS, 2022 (Student Poster Competition Finalist)
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System integration (i.e., hardware time synchronization) for Alaska under-ice data collection and Dead-Reckoning (i.e., DVL and Pressure update the IMU model).
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Working toward the development of a generic marine vehicle framework: ROS-MVP
Emir Cem Gezer, Mingxi Zhou, Lin Zhao, William McConnell
OCEANS, 2022
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The ROS-MVP framework provides three sub-modules: a low-level controller, plugin-based behavior interface, and a mission planner.
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Towards seafloor mapping using an affordable micro-UUV
Emir Cem Gezer, Lin Zhao, Jordan Beason, Mingxi Zhou
OCEANS, 2021
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Riptide Micro-UUV and Bathyswath interferometric side-scan sonar integration. Sonar data processing for sub-map mapping.
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Modifying an Affordable ROV for Under-ice Sensing
Lin Zhao, Mingxi Zhou, Brice Loose, Virginia Cousens, Raymond Turrisi
OCEANS, 2021
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Freshwater ice data collection with multi-sensors (e.g., IMU, DVL, Stereo, FLS).
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Towards the Development of an Online Coverage Path Planner for UUV-based Seafloor Survey using an Interferometric Sonar
Mingxi Zhou, Jianguang Shi, Lin Zhao
IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Symposium (AUV), 2020
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We propose a new online CPP algorithm for a UUV equipped with an interferometric sonar for seafloor mapping.
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Unmanned Aerial System for First Responders
Zachary Cook, Lin Zhao, Jameson Lee, Woosoon Yim
International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), 2015
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A 3D vector mesh (VM) obstacle avoidance algorithm extented from 2D Vector Field Histogram.
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