Yunfan Gao

Hi, I am a Digital Futures Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Robotics, Perception and Learning (RPL) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where I work with Prof. Danica Kragic Jensfelt and Prof. Dimos V. Dimarogonas.

From March 2022 to June 2026 I was a PhD student at the University of Freiburg under the academic supervision of Prof. Moritz Diehl, and simultaneously, until September 2025 I was an industrial PhD student at Bosch Center for AI, under the industrial supervision of Dr. Niels van Duijkeren. Previously, I obtained my master’s degree in Robotics, Systems and Control from ETH Zurich in 2022 and my bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Fudan University in 2019.

Research Highlights

Using LiDAR point clouds directly as the environment representation, the controller navigates narrow corridors and adapts seamlessly to changes of the environment.

See details in [2].

Collision avoidance between two ellipsoids can be formulated using an over-approximation of the Minkowski sum of the two ellipsoids.

See details in [3].

Collision-free motion planning is robustified while maintaining real-time feasibility using zero-order robust optimization (zoRO).

See details in [6], [5].