Dr. Shaowu Yang
Background
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Since 12/2014: Assistant professor with the State Key Laboratory of High Performance Computing (HPCL) and the School of Computer, National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), Changsha, China
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28.07.2014: Doctoral defense for my thesis "Visual SLAM for Autonomous Navigation of MAVs", Department of Computer Science, University of Tübingen
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10/2010-07/2014: Ph.D. candidate at the chair of Cognitive Systems, Department of Computer Science, University of Tübingen
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01/2010-09/2010: Ph.D. student at NUDT
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12/2009: Master of Engineering, in Control Science and Engineering, member of the NUBOT team
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09/2007-12/2009: Master studies at NUDT, majoring in Control Science and Engineering
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06/2007: Bachelor of Engineering, in Automation
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09/2003-06/2007: Undergraduate studies at NUDT, majoring in Automation
Research Interests
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Environment mapping
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SLAM
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Geospatial information
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Autonomous micro aerial vehicles
Selected Publications
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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, Accepted, 2017.
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Shaowu Yang,Visual SLAM for Autonomous Navigation of MAVs, Dissertation, University of Tuebingen, Shaker Verlag GmbH, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8440-4228-3.
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Shaowu Yang,Xiaodong Yi,Zhiyuan Wang,Yanzhen Wang,Xuejun Yang,Visual SLAM using Multiple RGB-D Cameras,Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2015 IEEE International Conference on,2015.12.6-2015.12.9.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Huimin Lu, Shaowu Yang, Hui Zhang, and Zhiqiang Zheng. A robust omnidirectional vision sensor for soccer robots.Mechatronics, 21(2):373-389, March 2011.
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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.
More details can be found at my Google Scholar page. My publications can be downloaded from Researchgate.