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Publications

Selected papers, workshops, patents, and thesis. Full citation metrics are onGoogle Scholar.

Conferences & journals

  1. Optimal Vehicle Trajectory Planning for Static Obstacle Avoidance using Nonlinear Optimization

    Y. Zhang, H. Sun, R. Chai, D. Kang, S. Li, L. Li

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.09466 · 2023

  2. Optimal Vehicle Path Planning Using Quadratic Optimization for Baidu Apollo Open Platform

    Y. Zhang, H. Sun, J. Zhou, J. Pan, J. Hu, J. Miao

    IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Las Vegas, USA · 2020

  3. Optimal Trajectory Generation for Autonomous Vehicles Under Centripetal Acceleration Constraints for In-lane Driving Scenarios

    Y. Zhang, H. Sun, J. Zhou, J. Hu, J. Miao

    IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), Auckland, New Zealand · 2019

  4. Robust Ladder-Climbing with a Humanoid Robot with Application to the DARPA Robotics Challenge

    J. Luo, Y. Zhang, K. Hauser, H. A. Park, M. Paldhe, C. S. George Lee, M. Grey, M. Stilman, J. H. Oh, J. Lee, I. Kim, P. Oh

    IEEE Int'l Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, China · 2014

  5. Motion Planning and Control of Ladder Climbing on DRC-Hubo for DARPA Robotics Challenge

    Y. Zhang, J. Luo, K. Hauser, H. A. Park, M. Paldhe, C. S. G. Lee, R. Ellenberg, B. Killen, P. Oh, J. H. Oh, J. Lee, I. Kim

    IEEE Int'l Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, China [Video submission] · 2014

  6. Unbiased, Scalable Sampling of Protein Loop Conformations from Probabilistic Priors

    Y. Zhang, K. Hauser

    BMC Structural Biology 13(Suppl. 1):S9 · 2013

  7. Motion Planning of Ladder Climbing for Humanoid Robots

    Y. Zhang, J. Luo, K. Hauser, R. Ellenberg, P. Oh, H. A. Park, M. Paldhe, C. S. G. Lee

    IEEE Int'l Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA), Boston, MA, USA · 2013

  8. Unbiased, Scalable Sampling of Closed Kinematic Chains

    Y. Zhang, K. Hauser, J. Luo

    IEEE Int'l Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany · 2013

  9. Minimizing Driver Interference under a Probabilistic Safety Constraint in Emergency Collision Avoidance Systems

    J. Johnson, Y. Zhang, K. Hauser

    IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), Anchorage, AK, USA · 2012

  10. Sampling-based Motion Planning with Dynamic Intermediate State Objectives: Application to Throwing

    Y. Zhang, J. Luo, K. Hauser

    IEEE Int'l Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), St. Paul, MN, USA · 2012

Workshops

  1. Planning-Aided Robot Design: Unified Optimization of Form, Physics, and Motion

    K. Hauser, Y. Zhang

    ICRA Workshop on Task-based Optimal Design of Robots, Hong Kong, China · 2014

  2. Planner-aided Design of Ladder Climbing Capabilities for a DARPA Robotics Challenge Humanoid

    Y. Zhang, J. Luo, K. Hauser

    ICRA Workshop on Progress and Open Problems in Motion Planning and Navigation for Humanoids, Karlsruhe, Germany · 2013

  3. Unbiased, Scalable Sampling of Constrained Kinematic Loops

    Y. Zhang, K. Hauser

    BIBM Workshop on Computational Structural Bioinformatics, Philadelphia, PA, USA · 2012

  4. Semiautonomous Longitudinal Collision Avoidance Using a Probabilistic Decision Threshold

    J. Johnson, Y. Zhang, K. Hauser

    IROS Workshop on Perception and Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles in Human Environments, San Francisco, CA, USA · 2011

  5. Driver Interference and Risk in Semi-autonomous Braking Under Uncertainty

    Y. Zhang, K. Hauser

    Intl. Workshop on Collaborative Robots and Human Robot Interaction, Philadelphia, PA, USA · 2011

Patents

  1. Method for generating prediction trajectories of obstacles for autonomous driving vehicles

    K. Xu, J. Miao, Y. Zhang

    US Patent 11,378,961 · 2022

  2. Method and system for generating reference lines for autonomous driving vehicles using multiple threads

    D. Li, L. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Y. Jiang, H. Fan, J. Hu

    US Patent 11,360,482 · 2022

  3. Planning parking trajectory generation for self-driving vehicles using optimization method

    Q. Luo, D. Li, Y. Zhang, L. Zhang, Y. Jiang, J. Tao, K. Xu, J. Hu

    US Patent 11,117,569 · 2021

  4. Method to evaluate trajectory candidates for autonomous driving vehicles (ADVs)

    Y. Zhang, K. Xu

    US Patent 10,996,679 · 2021

  5. Method for generating trajectories for autonomous driving vehicles (ADVs)

    Y. Zhang, K. Xu

    US Patent 10,884,422 · 2021

  6. Method and system for stitching planning trajectories from consecutive planning cycles for smooth control execution of autonomous driving vehicles

    Y. Zhang, H. Fan, L. Zhang, W. Zhu, Q. Kong, J. Wang

    US Patent 10,908,608 · 2021

  7. Path optimization based on constrained smoothing spline for autonomous driving vehicles

    H. Fan, L. Zhang, Y. Zhang, W. Zhu, Y. Jiang, Q. Luo, J. Hu, Q. Kong

    US Patent 10,571,921 · 2020

  8. Speed optimization based on constrained smoothing spline for autonomous driving vehicles

    H. Fan, L. Zhang, Y. Zhang, W. Zhu, Y. Jiang, Q. Luo, J. Hu, Q. Kong

    US Patent 10,606,277 · 2020

  9. Smooth road reference for autonomous driving vehicles based on 2D constrained smoothing spline

    H. Fan, L. Zhang, Y. Zhang, W. Zhu, Y. Jiang, Q. Luo, J. Hu, Q. Kong

    US Patent 10,591,926 · 2020

  10. Speed control and steering control assistant based on pitch status and roll status of autonomous driving vehicle

    F. Zhu, Q. Kong, Q. Luo, X. Yu, S. Hu, L. Zhuang, L. Zhang, W. Zhu, H. Fan, et al.

    US Patent 10,569,651 · 2020

  11. Method for generating a reference line by stitching multiple reference lines together using multiple threads

    D. Li, L. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Y. Jiang, H. Fan, J. Hu

    US Patent 10,732,632 · 2020

  12. Non-linear reference line optimization method using piecewise quintic polynomial spiral paths for operating autonomous driving vehicles

    Y. Zhang, L. Li, D. Li, J. Miao, J. Hu, J. Wang

    US Patent 10,429,849 · 2019

Thesis

  1. Knowledge Driven Motion Planning

    Y. Zhang

    Ph.D. thesis, Indiana University Bloomington (Advisor: Kris Hauser) · 2015