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Dr.-Ing. Chao Yao

chao.yao@mail.de

Education

  • Dr.-Ing. 2022 Control & Robotics @Institut of Automation, TU Dresden, Germany
  • Dipl.-Ing. 2015 Electrical Engineering @TU Dresden, Germany
  • B.Sc. 2010 Automation @WUST, China
  • B.B.A. 2010 Business Administration @WUST, China

Experience

  • Senior Robotics Software Engineer since 2024 @TII
  • Robotic Software Developer 2022-2024 @B/S/H/
  • Specialist Software Engineering Autonomous Drive 2021 @BMW
  • Research & Teaching Assistent 2015-2021 @TU Dresden
  • Intern 2014 @Continental

Research Topics

  • Aerial Robotics
  • Over-actuated Systems
  • Fault-tolerant Control
  • Nonlinear Observer Design
  • Visual Inertial Odometry

Expertise

Design, modeling, simulation and control of serial, mobile and aerial robots, SLAM, path planning, linear and nonlinear controller design, observer design, sensor fusion, state estimation, optimization algorithms artificial neural network, scientific writing, agile development, commercial software development process

Languages

  • Chinese Native
  • English
  • German

Publications

  • Yao, Chao. “A Contribution to the Design of Highly Redundant Compliant Aerial Manipulation Systems,” Vogt Verlag, Dresden, 2022. ISBN:978-3-95947-056-8.
  • Shawky, David, Chao Yao, and Klaus Janschek. “Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Trajectory Tracking of a Hexarotor with Actively Tiltable Propellers.” In 2021 7th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA), 128–34, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARA51699.2021.9376523.
  • Yao, Chao, and Klaus Janschek. “Impedance Control of an Aerial Manipulator Composed of a Multirotor and a 6-DOF Manipulator,” VDI Mechatronik 2021, 2021.
  • Yao, Chao Yao, Nils Dunkelberg and Klaus Janschek. “Trajectory Generation and Tracking of a Hexarotor with Fixed Tilted Rotors Considering Bounded Rotor Velocity,” 3rd International Symposium on Aerial Robotics, 2019.
  • Zhu, Jinyao, Chao Yao, and Klaus Janschek. “Stereo Visual-Inertial Fusion for UAV State Estimation.” IFAC-PapersOnLine, 21st IFAC World Congress, 53, no. 2 (January 1, 2020): 9420–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.2412.
  • Yao, Chao, Micha Schuster, Zijian Jiang, Klaus Janschek, and Michael Beitelschmidt. “Sensitivity Analysis of Model-Based Impedance Control for Physically Interactive Hexarotor.” IFAC-PapersOnLine, 8th IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems MECHATRONICS 2019, 52, no. 15 (January 1, 2019): 597–602. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.11.741.
  • Schuster, Micha, David Bernstein, Chao Yao, Klaus Janscheck, and Michael Beitelschmidt. “Comparison of Design Approaches of Fully Actuated Aerial Robots Based on Maximum Wrench Generation and Minimum Energy Consumption.” IFAC-PapersOnLine, 8th IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems MECHATRONICS 2019, 52, no. 15 (January 1, 2019): 603–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.11.742.
  • Wilmsen, Marek, Chao Yao, Micha Schuster, Shixiong Li, and Klaus Janschek. “Nonlinear Wrench Observer Design for an Aerial Manipulator.” IFAC-PapersOnLine, 1st IFAC Workshop on Robot Control WROCO 2019, 52, no. 22 (January 1, 2019): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.11.038.
  • Schuster, Micha, David Bernstein, Chao Yao, Klaus Janschek, and Michael Beitelschmidt. “Wrench Space Based Design of Fully Actuated Aerial Robots,” Mechatronik 2019, 2019.
  • Yao, Chao, Jan Krieglstein, and Klaus Janschek. “Modeling and Sliding Mode Control of a Fully-Actuated Multirotor with Tilted Propellers.” IFAC-PapersOnLine 51, no. 22 (2018): 115–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.11.527.