PhD

PhD Student Mengke Zhang (张孟轲) PhD Candidate until 2026 BE in College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, 2021 Interests: Planning and Control E-mail: mkzhang233@zju.edu.cn Google Scholar Publications Mengke Zhang, Chao Xu, Fei Gao, Yanjun Cao. “Trajectory Optimization for 3D Shape-Changing Robots with Differential Mobile Base,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023). [paper] [video] Chice Xuan, Jiadong Lu, Zhihao Tian, Jiacheng Li, Mengke Zhang, Hanbin Xie, Jianxiong Qiu, Chao Xu, Yanjun Cao. “Novel design of Reconfigurable Tracked Robot with Geometry-Changing Tracks,” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024). [paper] [video] Mengke Zhang, Nanhe Chen, Hu Wang, Jianxiong Qiu, Zhichao Han, Qiuyu Ren, Chao Xu, Fei Gao, Yanjun Cao. “Universal Trajectory Optimization Framework for Differential Drive Robot Clas,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE 2025). [paper] [video] [homepage] Mengke Zhang, Zhihao Tian, Yaoguang Xia, Chao Xu, Fei Gao, Yanjun Cao. “Efficient Trajectory Generation Based on Traversable Planes in 3D Complex Architectural Space,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025). [paper] [video] Senming Tan, Zhenyu Hou, Zhihao Zhang, Long Xu, Mengke Zhang, Zhaoqi He, Chao Xu, Fei Gao, Yanjun Cao. “Real-time Spatial-temporal Traversability Assessment via Feature-based Sparse Gaussian Process,” (Submitted to IROS 2025). [paper]