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Rui JIN 金锐

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. I am now a venture capital intern at Capital Today.

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 primarily focuses on aerial manipulation. I am also interested in venture capital investment in embodied AI, please feel free to reach out.

jinr0003 [at] e.ntu.edu.sg

Publications

QuadHand: A Compact Quadrotor Aerial Manipulator with MRC-SDF-Based Whole-Body Motion Planning

Rui Jin*, Ruiyang Liu*, Xinhang Xu, Yi Wang, Haotian Jin, Yizhuo Yang, Lihua Xie

IROS, 2026

QuadHand drone rescue demonstration — Drone Rescue

QuadHand cable unplugging demonstration — Cable Unplugging

QuadHand gap crossing grasp demonstration — Gap Crossing Grasp

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

IROS, 2026

DuctAM cart pushing demonstration — Cart Pushing

DuctAM door closing demonstration — Door Closing

DuctAM drawer pulling demonstration — Drawer Pulling

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 (IF: 20.9) | paper | pdf

GS-Planner: A Gaussian-Splatting-based Planning Framework for Active High-Fidelity Reconstruction

Rui Jin*, Yuman Gao*, Haojian Lu, Fei Gao

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

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