{"id":22732,"date":"2026-02-13T14:44:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/?post_type=nus-news&p=22732"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:56:13","slug":"rising-star-award-in-the-low-altitude-economy-innovation-challenge","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/news\/rising-star-award-in-the-low-altitude-economy-innovation-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Star Award in the Low-Altitude Economy Innovation Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Their award-winning project, titled \u201cModular Flyer,\u201d demonstrates a modular quadrotor system capable of autonomous mid-air assembly into different formations for prospective aerial transport and cooperative payload tasks.<\/p>\n

The project involves\u00a0the integration of modular aerial robotics, distributed coordination, and reconfigurable flight control, reflecting our group\u2019s broader research direction in scalable multi-agent aerial systems.<\/p>\n

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Congratulations to Asst Prof Zhao Lin’s students \u2014 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) \u2014 on receiving the Rising Star Award in the\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":22736,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[],"class_list":["post-22732","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nus-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/352"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22741,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22732\/revisions\/22741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=22732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}