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Yifan Liu

Master Supervisor,

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Email: yifanliu@scut.edu.cn

Department: School of Automation Science and Engineering

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Research Interests: Mobile Robotics, Machine Learning, Optimal Control and Optimization

Biography

Yifan Liu, an Assistant Professor and Master's Supervisor at South China University of Technology. He received the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2025. His research interests include:

1. Control, Planning, and Decision-making for Mobile Robots.

2. Machine Learning.

3. Optimal Control and Optimization.

Education

Sept. 2020 - June 2025, Zhejiang University, Ph.D. in Control Science and Engineering

Sept. 2016 - June 2020, Zhejiang University, B.E. in Biosystem Engineering

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Research Areas

His research focuses on mobile robotics, machine learning, and optimal control, with the purpose of enhancing robots’ intelligence, safety, and adaptability to advance their capabilities in real-world scenarios. The core research directions include:

1. Motion Control, Planning, and Decision-Making for Mobile Robots – including robot navigation and locomotion, field robots, spherical robots, quadruped robots, etc.

2. Machine Learning – including reinforcement learning, LLM, VLA, embodied intelligence, etc.

3. Optimal Control and Optimization Algorithms.


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Patent

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Software achievement