Dr. Shaowu Yang (杨绍武)

Background

  • From 09/2014: I will rejoin NUDT in China to further my robotics research.
  • 28.07.2014: Doctoral defense for my thesis "Visual SLAM for Autonomous Navigation of MAVs", Department of Computer Science, University of Tübingen
  • 10/2010-07/2014: Ph.D. candidate at the chair of Cognitive Systems, Department of Computer Science, University of Tübingen
  • 01/2010-09/2010: Ph.D. student at National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), Changsha, China
  • 12/2009: Master of Engineering, in Control Science and Engineering
  • 09/2007-12/2009: Master studies at NUDT, majoring in Control Science and Engineering
  • 06/2007: Bachelor of Engineering, in Automation
  • 09/2003-06/2007: Undergraduate studies at NUDT, majoring in Automation

 

Research Interests

  • Computer/Robot Vision
  • Visual SLAM
  • Autonomous Navigation of Flying Robots

 

Publications

[1] Shaowu Yang, Sebastian A. Scherer, Xiaodong Yi, and Andreas Zell. Multi-camera visual {SLAM} for autonomous navigation of micro aerial vehicles. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 93:116 -- 134, 2017. [ DOI | link ]
[2] Sebastian A. Scherer, Shaowu Yang, and Andreas Zell. Dctam: Drift-corrected tracking and mapping for autonomous micro aerial vehicles. In Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2015 International Conference on, pages 1094--1101, Denver, CO, USA, June 2015. [ details | link | pdf ]
[3] Shaowu Yang, Sebastian A. Scherer, and Andreas Zell. Robust onboard visual SLAM for autonomous MAVs. In 2014 International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-13), Padova, Italy, July 2014. [ details | pdf ]
[4] Shaowu Yang, Sebastian A. Scherer, and Andreas Zell. Visual SLAM for autonomous MAVs with dual cameras. In 2014 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'14), Hongkong, China, June 2014. [ details | pdf ]
[5] Andreas Masselli, Shaowu Yang, Karl Engelbert Wenzel, and Andreas Zell. A cross-platform comparison of visual marker based approaches for autonomous flight of quadrocopters. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 73(1-4):349--359, 2014. [ DOI | details | pdf ]
[6] Shaowu Yang, Sebastian A. Scherer, Konstantin Schauwecker, and Andreas Zell. Autonomous Landing of MAVs on Arbitrarily Textured Landing Sites using Onboard Monocular Vision. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 74(1-2):27--43, 2014. [ DOI | details | link | pdf ]
[7] Andreas Masselli, Shaowu Yang, Karl Engelbert Wenzel, and Andreas Zell. A cross-platform comparison of visual marker based approaches for autonomous flight of quadrocopters. In Proceedings of International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, pages 1--9, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 2013. [ details | pdf ]
[8] Shaowu Yang, Sebastian A. Scherer, Konstantin Schauwecker, and Andreas Zell. Onboard Monocular Vision for Landing of an MAV on a Landing Site Specified by a Single Reference Image. In 2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS'13), pages 317--324, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 2013. [ details | link | pdf ]
[9] Shaowu Yang, Sebastian A. Scherer, and Andreas Zell. An onboard monocular vision system for autonomous takeoff, hovering and landing of a micro aerial vehicle. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 69(1--4):499--515, January 2013. [ details | link | pdf ]
[10] Shaowu Yang, Sebastian A. Scherer, and Andreas Zell. An Onboard Monocular Vision System for Autonomous Takeoff, Hovering and Landing of a Micro Aerial Vehicle. In 2012 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS'12), Philadelphia, PA, USA, June 2012. [ details ]
[11] Huimin Lu, Shaowu Yang, Hui Zhang, and Zhiqiang Zheng. A robust omnidirectional vision sensor for soccer robots. Mechatronics, 21(2):373--389, March 2011. [ link ]
[12] Huimin Lu, Hui Zhang, Shaowu Yang, and Zhiqiang Zheng. Camera parameters auto-adjusting technique for robust robot vision. In 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), pages 1518--1523, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2010. [ link ]

 

Address, Phone, Fax, Email

Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik
Lehrstuhl Kognitive Systeme
Sand 1
D - 72076 Tübingen
Germany
 

Email: yangshaowu@hotmail.com