Dr. Dong Zhang
Associate Professor, Master Supervisor
Email：zhang_dong@buct.edu.cn
Background
Associate Professor Zhang received the Ph.D. degree from the Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China, in 2020. From 2021 to 2023, he was a Post-Doctoral searcher at Beijing University of Chemical Technology. He has published 15 papers in journals such as IEEE TCYB, IEEE TNNLS, and IEEE/CAA JAS. He holds 5 national invention patents and 10 software copyrights. He has participated in many scientific research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and Open Foundation of State Key Laboratories. He won some awards, including the second prize of the 2022 Mechanical Industry Science and Technology Award for Technical Invention, and the first prize of the 2023 China Graduate Robotics Innovation Design Competition Outstanding Instructor.
Areas of Research of Expertise
Intelligent Robotics
Robot Mechanism Design and Optimization
Robot Motion Control
Teaching
Undergraduate Teaching
Principles of Automatic Control
Postgraduate Teaching
Robot Control Technology
Research
Funded Research Projects
The National Natural Science Foundation of China:
Research on mechanism optimization designing and motion controlling of snake-like manipulator for operating in deep cavity.
Autonomous and collaborative operation methods of multiple inspection robots in a large scale chemical industrial environment.
The China Postdoctoral Science Foundation:
Research on rigid-elastic coupling mechanism design and motion control of snake-like robotic arm for deep cavity detection of large precision equipment.
Main Achievements & Awards
Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program By BAST
"Boxue" Young Scholar by Beijing University of Chemical Technology
The 2022 Mechanical Industry Science and Technology Award for Technical Invention
The first prize of the 2023 China Graduate Robotics Innovation Design Competition Outstanding Instructor.
Outstanding Instructors of the China Graduate Robotics Innovation Design Competition in 2023 and 2024.
The First Prize of Beijing University of Chemical Technology Outstanding Postdoctoral.
Publications
Dong Zhang, Renjie Ju, Zhengcai Cao*, Reinforcement Learning-Based Motion Control for Snake Robots in Complex Environments, Robotica, 2024, 42(4): 947-961.
Dong Zhang, Renjie Ju, Zhengcai Cao*, DDPG-based Path Planning for Cable-driven Manipulators in Multi-obstacle Environments, Robotica, Published online 2024:1-13. doi:10.1017/S0263574724001048.
Dong Zhang, Hao Yuan, Zhengcai Cao*, Environmental Adaptive Control of a Snake-like Robot with Variable Stiffness Actuators, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2020, 7(3): 745-751.
Zhengcai Cao, Dong Zhang*, Mengchu Zhou*, Direction Control and Adaptive Path Following of 3-D Snake-Like Robot Motion, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2022, 52(10): 10980-10987.
Zhengcai Cao*, Dong Zhang, Mengchu Zhou*, Modeling and Control of Hybrid 3-D Gaits of Snake-Like Robots, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2021, 32(10): 4603-4612.