Principal Investigator
Xiangru Xu
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (by courtesy)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Email: xiangru[DOT]xu[AT]wisc[DOT]edu
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Focus on new faculty: Xiangru Xu, bringing autonomous systems under control
PhD
Yujie Wang
09/2021 – present, ME
B.Eng., Nanjing University of Science and Technology
M.Eng., Kyushu University
M.Eng., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Tianxiao Ye
06/2025 – present, ME
B. Eng., Harbin Institute of Technology
M.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hang Zhang
09/2022 – present, ME
B.Eng., Harbin Institute of Technology
M.S., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Yuhao Zhang
09/2020 – present, ME
B.Eng., Peking University
M.S., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Former Master Students
- Victor Freire, thesis: “FlatVCP: Safe & Efficient Optimal Control of Flat Systems Based on B-Spline Optimization”, ME, 09/2020-05/2022. Next PhD student at CU-Boulder.
- Sushen Kashyap, project: “Visual-Inertial Odometry Based Navigation for Ground Robots”, ECE, 09/2022-05/2023. Next engineer at Trane Technologies.
- Sequoyah Walters, thesis: “Vision-based Autonomous Landing of a Quadcopter with Field-of-view Constraints”, ME, 09/2020-08/2023. Next software engineer at Applied Research Associates.
- Yanze Liu, thesis: “Contract-based Multi-rate Control Design”, ME, 09/2022-05/2024. Next PhD student at Boston University.
- Arslan Majal, thesis: “Quantifying Estimation Errors in Robust Vision-Based Control: An Extreme Value Theory Approach”, ME, 09/2023-05/2025.
