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Rui JIN 金 锐

Rui Jin

Welcome! I'm Rui JIN, currently a Ph.D. student at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, supervised by Prof. Lihua XIE.

Previously, I worked as a research assistant at PKU-Agibot Lab, Peking University, supervised by Prof. Hao DONG. I obtained my M.Eng. in Control Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University, where I was co-supervised by Prof. Fei GAO and Prof. Haojian LU. I received my B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University. My research interests primarily lie in aerial robotics and autonomous navigation.

jinr0003 [at] e.ntu.edu.sg

News

  • [2025/01] Started my Ph.D. journey at Nanyang Technological University (NTU)!
  • [2024/07] Started as a research assistant at PKU-Agibot Lab.
  • [2024/06] GS-Planner got accepted to IROS 2024.
  • [2024/04] Graduated with a master's degree from ZJU.

Selected Publications

Tethered UAV Autonomous Knotting on Environmental Structures for Transport
Rui Jin*, Xinhang Xu* , Yizhuo Yang, Jianping Li, Muqing Cao, Lihua Xie
Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2025 | paper | pdf
knotting cover knotting methods
GS-Planner: A Gaussian-Splatting-based Planning Framework for Active High-Fidelity Reconstruction
Rui Jin*, Yuman Gao*, Haojian Lu, Fei Gao
Accepted by IROS, 2024 | pdf | video | arxiv | citation
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Mediated Drug Delivery for First Aid
Sheng Tao*, Rui Jin* (co-first author), et al, Fei Gao, Yuqi Zhang, Haojian Lu, Jicheng Yu, Zhen Gu
Advanced Materials, 2023 (Frontispiece Paper, IF:39.4) | pdf | paper
QuadHand: A CoG-Compensated Quadrotor Aerial Manipulator with Whole-Body Motion Planning
Rui Jin*, Ruiyang Liu*, Xinhang Xu, Yi Wang, Haotian Jin, Yizhuo Yang, Lihua Xie
Submitted to IROS, 2026
DuctAM: A Duct-Assisted Quadrotor-Based Aerial Manipulator Enabling High-Force Push-and-Pull Interactions
Yi Wang*, Rui Jin* (co-first author), Xinhang Xu*, Haotian Jin, Ruiyang Liu, Yizhuo Yang, Lihua Xie
Submitted to IROS, 2026

Other Publications

  • Hand-like autonomous flying robot for airborne grasping and interaction
    Yuze Wu, Fan Yang, Rui Jin, Yuhang Zhong, Junjie Wang, Xuankang Wu, Fei Gao
    Nature Communications, 2026 | paper
  • Fast Iterative Region Inflation for Computing Large 2-D/3-D Convex Regions of Obstacle-Free Space
    Qianhao Wang, Zhepei Wang, Mingyang Wang, Jialin Ji, Zhichao Han, Tianyue Wu, Rui Jin, Yuman Gao, Chao Xu, Fei Gao
    T-RO, 2025 | pdf | paper | arxiv
  • HGS-Planner: Hierarchical Planning Framework for Active Scene Reconstruction Using 3D Gaussian Splatting
    Zijun Xu, Rui Jin, Ke Wu, Yi Zhao, Zhiwei Zhang, Jieru Zhao, Fei Gao, Zhongxue Gan, Wenchao Ding
    ICRA, 2025 | pdf | paper | arxiv | project
  • Canfly: A Can-Sized Autonomous Mini Coaxial Helicopter
    Neng Pan, Rui Jin, Chao Xu, Fei Gao
    IROS, 2023 | pdf | paper | video
  • Adaptive Tracking and Perching for Quadrotor in Dynamic Scenarios
    Yuman Gao, Jialin Ji, Qianhao Wang, Rui Jin, Yi Lin, Zhimeng Shang, Shaojie Shen, Chao Xu, Fei Gao
    T-RO, 2023 | pdf | paper
  • Modeling and Force Control of a Variable-Length Continuum Robot...
    Jingyu Zhang, Qin Fang, Lilu Liu, Rui Jin, Pingyu Xiang, Rong Xiong, Yue Wang, Haojian Lu
    T-ASE, 2024 | pdf | paper
  • Soft Lightweight Small-Scale Parallel Robot With High-Precision Positioning
    Qin Fang, Jingyu Zhang, et al, Rui Jin, Yue Wang, Rong Xiong, Zhefeng Gong, Haojian Lu
    T-MECH, 2023 | pdf | paper
  • A Survey on Design, Actuation, Modeling, and Control of Continuum Robot
    Jinyu Zhang, Qin Fang, et al, Rui Jin, Ke Qiu, Yue Wang, Rong Xiong, Haojian Lu
    Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2022 (IF: 10.7) | pdf | paper

Projects

Design and Control of a Coaxial Helicopter
Dec 2020 - Nov 2023
Master's Thesis, collaborated with Prof. Ximin Lyu's group
Applications:
Neural Collision Field for Efficient Trajectory Optimization
Jan 2023 - Present
Ongoing Project
Transformer Robot
Jun 2018 - Jun 2019
China Robot Competition & National Training Program

Awards

  • 2021, Outstanding Graduate of Northwestern Polytechnical University
  • 2020, Interdisciplinary Contest In Modeling, Honorable Mention
  • 2019, China Robot Competition, Top-tier Prize (Top 1%)
  • 2019, National 3D innovative Design Competition, Top-tier Award of Shanxi Province (Top 3%)
  • 2019, Fastgear Scholarship, Top-tier Prize (Top 1%)
  • 2018 & 2019, National Training Program of Innovation for Undergraduates, Outstanding Conclusion Award
  • 2018, Huawei Scholarship, First Prize (Top 1%)
  • 2017 - 2019, Northwestern Polytechnical University Scholarship, First Prize (Top 10%)