Congratulations to Asst Prof Zhao Lin's students — Rui Huang (Ph.D., ECE), Xin Chen (part-time M.Sc. in Robotics and full-time Research Engineer), Zhiqian Cai (M.Sc., Engineering Design and Innovation Centre), and Zhenyu Zhang (M.Sc., CEG) — on receiving the Rising Star Award in the Low-Altitude Economy Innovation Challenge organized by Meituan Academy of Robotics Shenzhen, at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hangzhou, China, during Oct 20~OCt 24, 2025.
Their award-winning project, titled “Modular Flyer,” demonstrates a modular quadrotor system capable of autonomous mid-air assembly into different formations for prospective aerial transport and cooperative payload tasks.
The project involves the integration of modular aerial robotics, distributed coordination, and reconfigurable flight control, reflecting our group’s broader research direction in scalable multi-agent aerial systems.
