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YANFEI LIU

242 Cochran Road, Apt. 4, Clemson, SC 29631 USA

Phone: 1-864-650-5044 (Cell)

1-864-656-7956 (Office)

Email: lyanfei@clemson.edu

http://www.ces.clemson.edu/~lyanfei/

RESEARCH INTEREST

  • Robotics, especially industrial robotics
  • Dynamic manipulation
  • Computer vision and image processing

 

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering                      Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA

Focus area: Intelligent Systems (Control/Robotics)                                                                    August 2004

GPA: 3.9/4.0

 

Master of Engineering                                                                                       Institute of Automation

Focus area: Control Theory and Engineering                         Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

GPA: 3.5/4.0                                                                                                                                 July 1999

 

Bachelor of Engineering                                      Shandong Institute of Architecture and Engineering

Major: Industrial Automation                                                                                                      Jinan, China

GPA: 3.5/4.0                                                                                                                                 July 1996

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Clemson University                                                                                                January 2000 - current

Research assistant

  • Worked as a primary graduate student on “Vision-Based Dynamic Industrial Workcell” project (http://www.ces.clemson.edu/~ahoover/workcell/), conducting research using an industrial manipulator and its conventional controller
  • Performed research in the area of robotics, dynamics manipulation, computer vision and visual sensing systems
  • Worked for four years on a Staubli RX-130 industrial manipulator and its standard CS-7 controller
  • Programmed proficiently in V+ language, popularly used in current industrial robotics
  • Worked on image acquisition programming using IFC5.0 software library for PC-RGB framegrabber
  • Conducted TCP/IP socket programming in Visual C++ and V+
  • Presented a new generic timing model for Vision-based Robot Systems, applied this timing model to our industrial workcell and achieved good performance
  • Performed research in dynamic manipulation with objects moving in semi-structured trajectories
  • Designed and built a novel pneumatic robot hand and conducted grasping research using this hand
  • Authored several publications with colleagues

 

Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences                             September 1996 – July 1999

Research assistant

  • Worked on simulation in the project “ The application of Genetic Algorithms” of Chinese Natural Science Foundation
  • Presented a new two-layer coded Genetic Algorithms and applied to mobile robot path planning

·        Applied Genetic Algorithms into solving the inverse of Jacobian matrix for two-link manipulators

 

Shandong Institute of Architecture and Engineering                                           April 1996 – July 1996

Research assistant

  • Designed an intelligent controller of Heating Transfer Machine

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

Clemson University                                                                                               January 2000 – current

Grader

  • Signals and Systems, Spring 2000, Fall 2000, Spring 2001

Responsibility included preparing homework solutions, grading homework and quizzes.

 

  • Communication Systems, Spring 2000

Responsibility included preparing homework solutions, grading homework and quizzes.

 

  • Continuous and Discrete Systems, Fall 2001, Spring 2002

Responsibility included preparing homework solutions, grading homework.

 

·        Fundamentals of Robotics, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2003

Responsibility included preparing homework solutions, grading homework.

 

  • Circuits, Spring 2002, Summer I 2004

Responsibility included holding office hours, preparing homework solutions, grading homeworks and quizzes.

CLASS PROJECTS (computer vision, image processing)

  • Character Recognition
  • Range Image Segmentation
  • Edge Extraction, Equalization
  • Optical flow determination
  • Linux Kernel patching and installation

 

SKILLS

Computer

  • Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000, Unix (Solaris), Linux
  • Networks: Socket level programming in Windows and V+
  • Program Languages: C/C++, Matlab, Maple, Fortran, HTML, 8086/8098 Assembly
  • Software Package: Scientific Workplace, Corel Draw, Adobe Premier, Microsoft Office

Language

  • English: fluent in speaking and writing
  • Chinese-Mandarin: native language

 

PUBLICATIONS

Journal

  • Y. Liu, A. Hoover and I. Walker, “A Timing Model for Vision-Based Control of Industrial Robot Manipulators,” IEEE Transaction on Robotics, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 891-898, Oct. 2004
  • Y. Liu, A. Hoover and I. Walker, “Dynamic Intercept and Manipulation of Objects under Semi-Structured Motion for an  Industrial Robot Workcell with Visual Guidance,” submitted to IEEE Transaction on Robotics in Sept. 2004

 

Conference

  • Y. Liu, A. Hoover and I. Walker, “Sensor Network Based Workcell for Industrial Robotics,” in Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1434-1439, Hawaii, USA, Oct. 2001
  • Y. Liu, A. Hoover and I. Walker, “Experiments Using a Sensor Network Based Workcell for Industrial Robots,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, pp. 2988-2993, Washington, USA, May 2002
  • Y. Liu, A. Hoover and I. Walker, “A New Generic Model for Vision Based Tracking in Robotic Systems,” in Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 248-253, Las Vegas, USA, October 2003

 

Technical Report

  • C. Hermanson, A. Hoover, M. Joseph, B. Judy, Y. Liu and I. Walker, “A Timing Model for a Dynamic Robotic Workcell,” November 2002

 

PRESENTATIONS

  • “Experiments Using a Sensor Network Based Workcell for Industrial Robots,” in IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, Washington, USA, May 2002
  • “A New Generic Model for Vision Based Tracking in Robotic Systems,” in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, USA, October 2003

 

HONORS AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

  • The first prize scholarship, Shandong Institute of Architecture and Engineering, China, 1992-1996
  • Best graduate award, Shandong Institute of Architecture and Engineering, China, 1996
  • Excellent graduate award, Institute of Automation, CAS, China, 1999
  • Member of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society in IEEE, 2001-present

 

REFERENCES

 

Dr. Ian Walker (Dissertation advisor)

307 Fluor Daniel Engineering Innovation Building

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Clemson University

Clemson 29634-0915

Email: ianw@ces.clemson.edu

Phone: 1-864-656-7209

Fax: 1-864-656-7220

 

Dr. Adam Hoover (co-advisor)

313A Riggs Hall

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Clemson University

Clemson 29634-0915

Email: ahoover@clemson.edu

Phone: 1-864-656-3377

Fax: 1-864-656-5910

 

Dr. Darren Dawson

320 Fluor Daniel Engineering Innovation Building

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Clemson University

Clemson 29634-0915

Email: darren.dawson@ces.clemson.edu

Phone: 1-864-656-5924

Fax: 1-864-656-7220

 

 

 

 

 

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