🔥 News

• 2026.02:  🎉🎉 Our paper titled “TransforMARS: Fault-Tolerant Self-Reconfiguration for Arbitrarily Shaped Modular Aerial Robot Systems” and “AERO-MPPI: Anchor-Guided Ensemble Trajectory Optimization for Agile Mapless Drone Navigation” have been accepted by ICRA 2026. See you in Vienna, Austria!!
• 2025.10:  🎉🎉 Our Modular Flyer team was awarded the Rising Star Award in Hangzhou in October 2025 by MEITUAN@IROS 2025.
• 2025.09:  🎉🎉 Our paper titled “MARS2: Enabling Agile and Robust Flight in Modular Aerial Robot Systems” has been accepted by IROS Workshop 2025. We will participate in the IROS Workshop on Challenges and Application Prospects for Reconfigurable Modular Robots in Hangzhou in October 2025, where we will present the latest progress of our MARS project.
• 2025.08:  🎉🎉 We will participate in the Workshop on Advanced Aerial Robotics at the University of Tokyo in October 2025, where we will present the latest progress of our MARS project.
• 2025.06:  🎉🎉 Our paper titled “MARS-FTCP: Robust Fault-Tolerant Control and Agile Trajectory Planning for Modular Aerial Robot Systems” has been accepted by IROS 2025. See you in Hangzhou, China!
• 2025.04:  🎉🎉 Our team won the Judge’s Commendation Award in the Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition Category E: Drone Swarm Search and Rescue.
• 2025.01:  🎉🎉 Our paper titled “Robust Self-Reconfiguration for Fault-Tolerant Control of Modular Aerial Robot Systems” has been accepted by ICRA 2025!
• 2025.01:  🎉🎉 I’m happy to share that I’ve started my Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at National University of Singapore!

📝 Publications

ICRA 2026

TransforMARS: Fault-Tolerant Self-Reconfiguration for Arbitrarily Shaped Modular Aerial Robot Systems 2026 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026).
Rui Huang, Zhiyu Gao, Siyu Tang, Jialin Zhang, Lei He, Ziqian Zhang, Lin Zhao.

ICRA 2026

AERO-MPPI: Anchor-Guided Ensemble Trajectory Optimization for Agile Mapless Drone Navigation 2026 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026).
Xin Chen, Rui Huang, Longbin Tang, Lin Zhao

RAL 2026

SIGN: Safety-Aware Image-Goal Navigation for Autonomous Drones via Reinforcement Learning IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
Zichen Yan, Rui Huang, Lei He, Shao Guo and Lin Zhao.

IROS Workshop 2025

MARS2: Enabling Agile and Robust Flight in Modular Aerial Robot Systems 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Workshop on Challenges and Application Prospects for Reconfigurable Modular Robots
Rui Huang, Zhiqian Cai, Siyu Tang, Jialin Zhang, Zhenyu Zhang and Lin Zhao.

IROS 2025

MARS-FTCP: Robust Fault-Tolerant Control and Agile Trajectory Planning for Modular Aerial Robot Systems 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Rui Huang, Zhenyu Zhang, Siyu Tang, Zhiqian Cai, and Lin Zhao.

ICRA 2025

Robust Self-Reconfiguration for Fault-Tolerant Control of Modular Aerial Robot Systems. 2025 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025).
Rui Huang, Siyu Tang, Zhiqian Cai, and Lin Zhao.

📝 Under Review

• Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems with State-Dependent Representation: From Model-Based to Direct Data-Driven Control

• AION: Aerial Indoor Object-Goal Navigation Using Dual-Policy Reinforcement Learning

• Agile Modular Aerial Robot Load Transport with Arbitrary Configurations

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2024.04 Outstanding Graduate of Jiangsu Province.
• 2023.10 National Scholarship.
• 2022.10 Conprofe Scholarship.

🎖 Competitions

• 2025.10 Low-Altitude Economy Innovation Challenge, MEITUAN@IROS 2025 - Rising Star Award
• 2025.04 Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition Category E: Drone Swarm Search and Rescue, Judge’s Commendation Award.
• 2023.08 The 9th Graduate Future Flight Vehicle Innovation Competition in China, Second prize (Team leader)
• 2023.06 Air Force Aviation Creative Challenge - First Prize (0.6%), Second prize
• 2021.06 The 7rd AVIC Cup international UAV Innovation grand prix - runner-up
• 2021.05 National, international aircraft design challenge in China - Third Prize
• 2020.08 The 15th national university student intelligent vehicle competition in China - First Prize (First time our university has won the award, Team leader).

• 2020.06 Baidu Inc. Crowd counting detection and Traffic light detection - Champion (1/253, Team leader)
• 2019.08 The 12th national university student social practice and science contest on energy saving & emission reduction in China - Third Prize

📖 Educations

• 2025.01 - Present, Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS).

💻 NUS Student Projects

We are inviting students to join our project. If you are interested in these topics, feel free to contact me.

• 2024.08 - 2025.05, Modular Aerial Robot Systems (MARS) project

  Related works:

  ICRA 2025: “Robust Self-Reconfiguration for Fault-Tolerant Control of Modular Aerial Robot Systems.”

  IROS 2025: “Robust Fault-Tolerant Control and Agile Trajectory Planning for Modular Aerial Robotic Systems.”

  IROS Workshop 2025: “MARS2: Enabling Agile and Robust Flight in Modular Aerial Robot Systems.”

  ICRA 2026: “TransforMARS: Fault-Tolerant Self-Reconfiguration for Arbitrarily Shaped Modular Aerial Robot Systems.”

  Under Review: “Agile Modular Aerial Robot Load Transport with Arbitrary Configurations.”

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