Ming Cao

A research Engineer in Momenta.

Biography

I received my B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in June 2019 and master degree in Control Science and Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen.

Projects

Active Reconstruction for Buildings by Mobile Robots

      2020.10 - now
      Generate Viewspace from frontier extraction.
      Evaluate views by raycasting and gaussian process inference.
      Path planing in a receding horizon strategy.

Construction of Large-scale Semantic Map

      2020.4 - 2020.10
      Generate semantic point cloud from camera and LiDAR.
      Use a 2D CNN architecture to relocalization.

Intelligent Unmanned Logistics Vehicle in Campus

      2018.9 - 2019.10 [Video]
      Localization, mapping and navigation of unmmanned vehicle in campus.
      Cooperated with seniors.

ROBOCON 2017

      2016.9 - 2017.6 [Video]
      Leader of vision group in the robot team of UESTC.
      Design algorithms for tracking frisbees and predict its trajectory.
      Second place in China.

Awards

Outstanding dissertation for master’s degree. (Top 3 of 63)
Outstanding dissertation for bachelor’s degree. (Top 3 of 88)
ROBOCON 2017 second prize. (2rd of 74)

Publication

Pole-like Objects Mapping and Long-Term Robot Localization in Dynamic Urban Scenarios

Zhihao Wang, Silin Li, Ming Cao, Haoyao Chen and Yunhui Liu
IEEE ROBIO, 2021 [pdf] [code]

3D Dense Rangefinder Sensor With A Low Cost Scanning Mechanism

Ming Cao, Pengpeng Su, Haoyao Chen*, Shiyu Tang, and Yunhui Liu
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement（TIM）, 2020 [pdf]

Patent

《一种基于三维激光增稠机构的多帧融合方法》，申请号：CN110118974A，2019