Jie Zhou

I completed my Bachelor's degree with a GPA ranking 1 / 153 at BUCT(211 project, ARWU:201-300) as Beijing Outstanding Graduate in 2023.

Now I am a student at HITSZ(985, C9), the State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems(Shenzhen) for my research master's degree.

I have received two national scholarships, three national competition awards and two Beijing competition awards.

I am an outstanding mechanical and hardware engineer, and a decent programmer. Based on my past experiences and insights, my research interests focus on robotics, electronics, materials, control, medicine, human-computer interaction, modelling and machine learning.

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Research & Engineering

My main projects in BUCT included quadruped robot, biomimetic deformation robots and machine vision with an arm. At HITSZ, my main research direction is task planning for multi biological robots. The fields included functional electrical stimuli, materials, UWB, motion planning and machine learning. In addition, I participated in a force sensor development.

Focused on the two major obstacles in the current development of cockroach robot: habituation and lack of basic model. The Main work included two new methods and one new model. Optic lobe implantation was proposed; a more effective stimuli signal, bidirectional constant-current was implemented. Bio-robot's stimulated-motion response was modelled by a machine learning approach in conjunction with theoretical extrapolation and validation. I was the first author and led all the work. Click excerpts for details.

A cockroach robot for pipeline maintenance that enabled localization, image retrieval and navigation. UWB and imu fusion positioning ensured positioning error not more than 10 cm. A yolov5-based image recognition algorithm was developed for pipeline identification and steering. It is a Key Technologies R & D Program of Shenzhen, I hosted all the things above and completed it in 2024.06.

Aimed to create a sensor inspired by Origami Configurations.3-DOF Yoshimura Origami Unit Static model was derived. An equivalent circuit was designed and its resonant frequency was obtained by simulation verification. I was responsible for hardware design, fabrication and inductive sensor design(including derivation formulae).

A quality inspection line for beverage bottles was built based on yolov5. Defects such as broken labels, missing caps and so on could been detected. A Raspberry Pi arm was used as an actuator instead of cylinder and hand-eye separation architecture was implemented to address the lack of arithmetic power of Raspberry Pi. This project was my undergraduate graduation design project and the 2023 excellent graduation design project in BUCT.

A bionic robot inspired by dung beetle. It had two motion modes: crawling and rolling. Its crawling mechanism based on the Crane linkage. The rolling mechanism consisted of two semi-circular support. A screw nut implemented the switching between crawling and rolling. All technical content was done by me lonely. What I'm most proud of is that the robot only costs 312.6RMB. It won the China Student Mechanical Innovation Design Competition, 2nd prize in Beijing.

The dog's mechanical design referenced and improved upon Stanford's Puppy. Compared to Puppy, our joint motors were embedded in the body, which enhanced the robot robustness. Rivz simulation and kinematic inverse solutions were used for trot gait planning. Laser radar built environmental maps with cartographer. I done mechanical, assembly and bottom-level control, including kinematic inverse solutions.
Achievement: National Training Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, China, 2021; The 8th ”Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, 2nd prize in Beijing.

follow-up: Han and Xiongshi Xu successfully developed this program into an open-source business project: miniPuppy. Although I didn't participate in anything after the competition, I am still proud of it.

Non-awarded works

A 32-sensor Mecanum wheel car with arm, aimed to participate in the Beijing Engineering Training Event. I had spent a lot of effort on it, but unfortunately the vehicle short-circuited during the competition. Always a pity!

Scholarships

Honors and Competition Awards

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