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Long Chen

Master degree candidate, Networked Robotics and Systems Lab

School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation

Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China

Biography

Long Chen is a second-year Master student at Networked Robotics and Systems Lab , School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation in Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen, advised by Prof. Hao-Yao Chen. His major is Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System. He is very interested in robotics, artificial intelligence, control systems engineering.

Before that, He received the B. Eng degree in Automation (Information Engineering) from Automation College in Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2019.

News

[01/2022] Receive the M. Eng degree.
[06/2021] Won the funding of “Space New Energy Cup” Innovation Star.
[04/2021] One paper to appear in CYBER’2021.
[09/2019] Be a new graduate student.
[07/2019] Receive the B. Eng degree.
[06/2019] One paper to appear in CEC’2019.

Projects

Topic 1: Research on Target Grasp Using Aerial Manipulator based on DL

      .09/2020~Now
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Propose an efficient deep learning network to identify the category and detect the precise location of specific object.
Design Image-Based Visual Servo(IBVS) controller to grasp objects in the clutter and complete the round-trip flight. Perform experiments to verify the performance when confronted with complex dynamic scenarios.

Topic 2: Onboard Real-time Object Detection for UAV

      10/2019~ 11/2020
      The related paper was accepted by 2021IEEE CYBER as Oral Presentation.
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The related code is open source in the Gitee community of Huawei’s Shengteng.
Design a powerful network pruning strategy to compress model size without extra loss of precision.
Propose a flexible object tracking strategy to improve the effectiveness and stability.
Develop a novel object detection system equipped with NPU for onboard and real-time performance on UAVs.

Topic 3: An Efficient Genetic Algorithm for Active Space Debris Removal Planning

      .03/2018~ 01/2019
      The related paper was accepted by 2019IEEE CEC.
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Model the debris planning problem as an multiple traveler salesman problem (MTSP).
Propose a novel MTSP algorithm based on GA and design a new crossover-mutation strategy, to reduce the weighted sum of energy and time in one mission.
The final global optimum is obtained by traversing all the sub-populations.

Topic 4: SAR Image Change Detection based on Deep Learning

      07/2018~02/2019
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Represent a scheme using neighborhood information and bilateral filter to improve the performance of SAR image change detection based on Difference Image(DI) analysis.
Design a deep belief network to generate change detection map directly from two SAR images.

Topic 5: Air-Ground Logistics Integration with Dispatching UAV

      09/2016~04/2018
      The related paper was accepted by 2018NCCE.
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Formulate routing and scheduling of UAV delivery problem as Dynamic Mixed Integer Linear Programming(MILP) model. Take various constraints into consideration.
Verify the effectiveness of the path planning-aiding system by computational experiments with a commercial linear problem solver Gurobi.

Other Projects

Topic 6: A Campus Tour Guide System.

      07/2020~08/2020
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Design a campus tour guide system to provide building and road information inquiry service for people visiting the campus.

Topic 7: Image Denoising

      04/2020~04/2020
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Do denoising for a given image dataset.

Topic 8: Biometric System Application: Palmprint Recognition

      05/2020~06/2020
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Design a framework to realize fingerprint recognition.

Topic 9: Model Airplane

      04/2017~06/2017
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Make model airplane modules and splicing, and finally achieve air flight.

Selected Awards and Honors

Third prize of “Code Craft”, the 7th Huawei Software Contest in Coding Apr.2021

—Division of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
First-Class Student Award, HITSZ Nov.2019 - Nov.2020
Honor of Outstanding Graduate, NPU (Top 3%) July. 2019
National Scholarship , China Ministry of Education (Top 1%) Oct. 2018

—Highest award for undergraduates in China
Honorable Mention, of American Mathematical Contest in Modeling. Jan. 2018
National Encouragement Scholarship, Oct. 2017

China Ministry of Finance
National Scholarship , China Ministry of Education (Top 2%) Oct. 2016

—Highest award for undergraduates in China
First-class Student Award, NPU Nov. 2016 - Nov. 2019

Publications

Zhang, Y., & Chen, L. (2018, May). A Hybrid Forecasting Model Based on Modified Bat Algorithm and ELM: A Case Study for Wind Speed Forecasting. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 153, No. 2, p. 022001). IOP Publishing. (EI) pdf
Wang, D., Li, L., & Chen, L. (2019, June). An Efficient Genetic Algorithm for Active Space Debris Removal Planning. In 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) (pp. 514-521). IEEE. (EI) pdf
Zhang, Y., Zhai, S., Wang, D., & Chen, L. (2018, May). Path Planning-aiding System of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Freight Transportation. In 2018 International Conference on Network, Communication, Computer Engineering (NCCE 2018). Atlantis Press. pdf
Chen, L., Hu, J., Li, X., Quan, F., & Chen, H. (2021, July).Onboard Real-time Object Detection for UAV with Embedded NPU. In 2021 11th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on Cyber Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CYBER) (pp. 43-48). IEEE. pdf

Patent

Under way

Professional activities

Academic Organizers and Participants

The 5th Drone World Congress May. 2021
Volunteer of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao University Alliance for Engineering May. 2021
Tsinghua University “GUOQIANG” Institute Cup Dec. 2020
Interpreter of The 22nd China Hi-Tech Fair Aug. 2018

Conference Presentations

IEEE CYBER, Jiaxin, China July. 2021
IEEE CEC, Wellington, New Zealand June. 2019

Teaching

Automation, NPU Oct. 2017 - May. 2019 • Auxiliary Instructor
Robotic Design and Practice, HITSZ Jan. 2020 - Apr. 2020 • Course Teaching Assistant
Data Structures and Algorithms (S8301028CN), HITSZ Mar. 2021 - June. 2021 • Course Teaching Assistant

Internships and Other Experiences

Global Youth Leadership Academy(GYLA), UN Agencies Jan.2021 • Trainee
UI-CREATES Program “Learning the World of Diversity”, Univeritas Indonesia Aug.2018 • Trainee of Organizational Behavior Course
Key Laboratory of Speech and Image Information Processing of Shaanxi Provincial, NPU June. 2018 - Aug. 2018 • Intern