Zixuan Zhuang

I am currently a visiting student at the Human-Centered Robotics Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, under the supervision of Prof. Fan Shi. I am pursuing my Master's degree at Sun Yat-sen University, advised by Prof. Hui Cheng. Previously, I was a visiting student in the STAR Group at Sun Yat-sen University, working with Prof. Boyu Zhou. I received my Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Northeastern University in 2023. I am actively seeking Ph.D. opportunities starting in Fall 2026.

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Honors

• 2022 - IEEE ICRA RoboMaster University AI Challenge - First Prize / Third Place
• 2023 - Outstanding Graduate Student Award

Research

I'm interested in motion planning, autonomous exploration, mobile manipulation, and aerial robotics. Most of my work focuses on enabling robots to autonomously perform related tasks. Some papers are highlighted.

We propose a mobile manipulation framework that integrates reinforcement learning with whole-body model predictive control for operation in unknown and complex environments.

We propose Star-Searcher, a hierarchical UAV-based target search system that combines viewpoint clustering and history-aware planning to achieve efficient and complete search in complex unknown environments.

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