Biography
I received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and automation from Hohai University in 2015, and the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from RaHAIC (Robot Autonomy and Human-AI Collaboration), the Institute of Robotics and Automatic Information System, Nankai University in 2020, supervised by Prof. Xuebo Zhang. My research interest includes localization and mapping for mobile robots.
From July 2020 to July 2021, I worked as a Senior Algorithm Engineer in IAS BU (Huawei Intelligent Automotive Solution), with research interests including freespace extraction, APA (Auto Parking Assist), and AVP (Automated Valet Parking). From July 2021 to February 2025, I was a research scientist (Associate Professor) at Zhejiang Lab. Currently, I am a Principal Investigator at the Hangzhou Global Innovation and Technology Center of Zhejiang University (ZJU-HIC). My research interests include localization and perception for intelligent vehicles and mobile robots.
Selected Grants
2024.01 - 2026.12
Self-organizing Spatio-temporal Scene Graph Construction Towards Global Localization of Mobile Robots under Dynamic and Ambiguous Environments
PI
Grant No: 62303428
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Selected Publications
1
, Q. Qiu, H. Liu, D. Liang*, C. Wang, and X. Zhang, ERPoT: Effective and reliable pose tracking for mobile robots using lightweight polygon maps
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2025, 41: 3799-3819
2
, Q. Qiu, W. Hua*, X. Zhang, Z. Su, S. Zhang, CVR-LSE: Compact vectorized representation of local static environments for reliable obstacle detection
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2024, 71(8): 9309-9318
3
, X. Zhang*, J. Yuan, and Y. Fang. NEGL: Lightweight and efficient neighborhood encoding-based global localization for unmanned ground vehicles
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2023, 72(6): 7111-7122
4
, X. Zhang*, J. Yuan, J. Song, and Y. Fang. A novel global localization approach based on structural unit encoding and multiple hypothesis tracking
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2019, 68(11): 4427-4442
5
, X. Zhang*, J. Wen, J. Yuan, and Y. Fang. Autonomous indoor exploration via polygon map construction and graph-based SLAM using directional endpoint features
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2019, 16(4): 1531-1542
6
, X. Zhang*, Y. Fang, and J. Yuan. A line segment extraction algorithm using laser data based on seeded region growing
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2018, 15(1): 1-10
Most Read Articles
7
Q. Qiu, W. Wang, H. Ying, D. Liang, , and X. He. Stacked asymmetric convolution and selective feature fusion for large-scale point cloud-based place recognition
Knowledge-Based Systems, 2024, 295: 111794
8
, X. Zhang*, C. Li, X. Chen, Y. Fang, and X. Chen. Directional endpoint-based enhanced EKF-SLAM for indoor mobile robots
IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, pp. 978-983, 2019
9
, Q. Qiu, S Zhang, W. Hua*, Z. Su, and X. Zhang. MPC-MF: Multi-point cloud map fusion based on offline global optimization for mobile robots
2023 Chinese Control Conference (CCC), pp. 4237-4242, 2023
10
Q. Qiu, H. Yang, J. Jiang, S. Zhang, H. Ying, , W. Wang, and X. He. M³CS: Multi-target masked point modeling with learnable codebook and siamese decoders
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2025, doi: 10.1109/TCSVT.2025.3553525
11
Y. Song, R. Wang, Q. Bi, Z. Pan, , and X. Zhang. STVO: Spatial-temporal constrained velocity obstacle for safe navigation among pedestrians
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2025, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2025.3565734
12
H Liu, , J. Shi, C. Xu, D. Qu, and W. Hua. APMC-LOM: Accurate 3D LiDAR odometry and mapping based on pyramid warm-up registration and multi-constraint optimization
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2024, 73(12): 18266-18282
13
Q. Qiu, , W. Hua, G. Huang, and X. He. PriorLane: A prior knowledge enhanced lane detection approach based on transformer
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 5618-5624, 2023
14
J. Wen, X. Zhang*, , J. Yuan, and Y. Fang. E³MoP: Efficient motion planning based on heuristic-guided motion primitives pruning and path optimization with sparse-banded structure
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2022, 19(4): 2762-2775
15
C. Li, X. Zhang*, , R. Wang, and Y. Fang. Bridging the gap between visual servoing and visual SLAM: A novel integrated interactive framework
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2022, 19(3): 2245-2255
16
J. Wen, X. Zhang*, , J. Yuan, and Y. Fang. CAE-RLSM: Consistent and efficient redundant line segment merging for online feature map building
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2020, 69(7): 4222-4237
17
Q. Qiu, S. Zhang, , H. Yang, H. Ying, W. Wang, and X. He. EMVP: Embracing visual foundation model for visual place recognition with centroid-free probing
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024, 37: 120928-120950
18
Y. Zhu, W. Lu, G. Ren, , S. Vougioukas, Y. Ying, and C. Peng. Optimal scheduling of a dual-arm robot for efficient strawberry harvesting in plant factories
2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 1231-1238, 2025
20
J. Song, , X. Zhang*, W. Lin, and J. Liu. A global localization algorithm for mobile robots based on grid submaps
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics, pp. 201-206, 2018
Best Conference Paper Finalist
21
J. Wen, X. Zhang*, , J. Yuan, and Y. Fang. A novel 2D laser scan matching algorithm for mobile robots based on hybrid features
IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics, pp. 366-371, 2018
Best Paper Award Finalist
22
J. Wang, X. Zhang*, , and Y. Fang. Time-optimal motion planning for a nonholonomic mobile robot on a barcode map
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, pp. 215-220, 2017
... and more publications in progress
Awards & Honors
2025.12
Outstanding Reviewer of Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics in 2025
Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics
2025.01
Outstanding Reviewers of 2024
IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society
2023.12
Excellent Employee
Zhejiang Lab
2021.01
Excellent New Employee
Huawei Intelligent Automotive Solution
2020.06
Outstanding Graduate Award
Nankai University
2019.10
Merit Student Award
Nankai University
2019.05
Best Poster Award
The First Artificial Intelligence Conference and Entrepreneurs Summit Forum of Chinese Optics Valley, Wuhan, China
2018.08
Finalist for the Best Paper Award
IEEE RCAR, Maldives
2018.07
Best Conference Paper Finalist
IEEE ARM, Singapore
2015.06
Outstanding Graduate Award
Hohai University