Jianhao Jiao

Senior Research Fellow at University College London (UCL)

Mobile Robot, Sensor Fusion, SLAM, Navigation

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Hong Kong, 2022

I am currently the senior research fellow in University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science. I work in the Robot Perception and Learning Lab which is led by Prof.Dimitrios Kanoulas, cutting-edge research covering topics ranging from perception, SLAM, and navigation on mobile robots.

I obtained my Ph.D. in Robotics in 2021 from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), under the supervision of Prof.Ming Liu in the Robotics & Multi-Perception Lab. I was the research associate in the Intelligent and Autonomous Driving Center (IADC) from 2022 to 2023.

More details regarding our projects and real-world demonstrations of robots can be found on Projects & Research. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions about our projects and want to collaborate us.

News

Jan 15, 2024 Becoming the Associate Editor of IROS 2024.
Jan 1, 2024 Start a new position: senior research fellow in UCL, Department of Computer Science.
Jan 1, 2023 Paper ``LCE-Calib: Automatic LiDAR-Frame/Event Camera Extrinsic Calibration With a Globally Optimal Solution’’ accepted to IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Selected Publications

Perception, Mapping, Navigation

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    Real-Time Metric-Semantic Mapping for Autonomous Navigation in Outdoor Environments
    Preprint, 2024
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    An Online Interactive Approach for Crowd Navigation of Quadrupedal Robots
    Bowen Yang, Jianhao Jiao, Lujia Wang, and 1 more author
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022
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    MLOD: Awareness of Extrinsic Perturbation in Multi-LiDAR 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving
    Jianhao Jiao, Peng Yun, Lei Tai, and 1 more author
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020
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    Using DP Towards A Shortest Path Problem-Related Application
    Jianhao Jiao, Rui Fan, Han Ma, and 1 more author
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019

Calibration, Pose Estimation, Sensor Fusion, SLAM

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    PA-SLAM: Robust Prior-Assisted Ground Truth Trajectory Generation for Benchmarking
    Xiangcheng Hu, Linwei Zheng, Ruoyu Geng, and 7 more authors
    Preprint, ICRA Workshops, 2023
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    LCE-Calib: Automatic LiDAR-Frame/Event Camera Extrinsic Calibration With a Globally Optimal Solution
    Jianhao Jiao, Feiyi Chen, Hexiang Wei, and 2 more authors
    IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2023
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    Quadratic Pose Estimation Problems: Globally Optimal Solutions, Solvability/Observability Analysis, and Uncertainty Description
    Jin Wu, Yu Zheng, Zhi Gao, and 5 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2022
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    Robust Odometry and Mapping for Multi-LiDAR Systems with Online Extrinsic Calibration
    Jianhao Jiao, Haoyang Ye, Yilong Zhu, and 1 more author
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2021
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    Greedy-Based Feature Selection for Efficient LiDAR SLAM
    Jianhao Jiao, Yilong Zhu, Haoyang Ye, and 5 more authors
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
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    Automatic Calibration of Multiple 3D LiDARs in Outdoor Environment
    Jianhao Jiao, Yang Yu, Qinghai Liao, and 2 more authors
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019
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    A Novel Dual-LiDAR Calibration Algorithm Using Planar Surfaces
    Jianhao Jiao, Qinghai Liao, Yilong Zhu, and 5 more authors
    IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2019

Dataset, Application

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    FusionPortable: A Multi-Sensor Campus-Scene Dataset for Evaluation of Localization and Mapping Accuracy on Diverse Platforms
    Jianhao Jiao, Hexiang Wei, Tianshuai Hu, and 8 more authors
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022
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    The Role of The Hercules Autonomous Vehicle During the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Autonomous Logistic Vehicle for Contactless Goods Transportation
    Tianyu Liu, Qinghai Liao, Lu Gan, and 28 more authors
    IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2021

Awards & Recognitions

2020 Multi-LiDAR Calibration algorithm (published in IROS 2019) included in Matlab LiDAR Toolbox