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Botao He | Home
Botao He
Bio
Welcome! I am currently a CS Ph.D. student at PRG (Perception and
Robotics Group) , University of Maryland - College Park, advised by Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos and
Dr. Cornelia
Fermuller .
I am also working with Dr. Ji Zhang in CMU.
Formerly I was a visiting student in Fast Lab , Zhejiang University
(ZJU), advised by Prof. Fei Gao .
My research interests are Interactive Perception & Learning & Motion Planning for Manipulation and Navigation. I am especially interested in systematic solutions that
make the robot system actually work in field scenarios.
I hope to build a useful robot that can actually improve someone's life.
I open source most of my research, please check my Github for more infomation. at all , please kick me.
If you are interested in my research or would like to have a talk, feel free to drop me an email.
Selected Publications
All publications on
Google Scholar .
Adversarial Game-Theoretic Algorithm for Dexterous Grasp Synthesis Botao He , Yuemin Mao, Arthur Jakobsson, Jeffrey Ke, Yiannis Aloimonos, Guanya Shi, Howie Choset, Jiayuan Mao, Jeffrey Ichnowski.
NavMoE: Hybrid Model- and Learning-based Traversability Estimation for Local Navigation via Mixture of Experts Botao He *, Amir Hossein Shahidzadeh*, Yu Chen*, Jiayi Wu, Tianrui Guan, Guofei Chen, Dinesh Manocha, Howie Choset, Glen Chou, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos.
Air-FAR: Fast and Adaptable Routing for Aerial Navigation in Large-scale Complex Unknown Environments Botao He , Guofei Chen, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos, Ji Zhang.
Interactive-FAR: Interactive, Fast and Adaptable Routing for Navigation Among Movable Obstacles in Complex Unknown Environments Botao He *, Guofei Chen*, Wenshan Wang, Ji Zhang, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos.
Microsaccade-inspired Event Camera for Robotics Botao He , Ze Wang, Yuan Zhou, Jingxi Chen, Chahat Deep Singh, Haojia Li, Yuman Gao, Shaojie Shen, Kaiwei Wang, Yanjun Cao, Chao Xu, Yiannis Aloimonos, Fei Gao and Cornelia Fermuller.
GPA-Teleoperation: Gaze Enhanced Perception-aware Safe Assistive Aerial Teleoperation Botao He* , Zhiren Xun and Fei Gao.
FAST-Dynamic-Vision: Detection and Tracking Dynamic Objects with Event and Depth Sensing Botao He* , Haojia Li*, Siyuan Wu, Dong Wang, Zhiwei Zhang, Qianli Dong, Chao Xu, and Fei Gao
Experiences
Honda Research Institute USA
May, 2025 - Aug, 2025
Research Intern
Carnegie Mellon University
May, 2023 - NOW
Visiting Student
University of Maryland
Sep, 2022 - NOW
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
Zhejiang University
Feb, 2020 - Aug, 2022
Visiting Student
Nanjing Institute of Technology
Sep, 2018 - June, 2022
Undergraduate
Robot Systems I Built with Friends
AirDev: Aerial Autonomy Development Environment
A full-stack autonomy development environment for aerial robots. Support 30+ large-scale environments with multiple sensor setups.
Microsaccade-inspired Event Camera
A systematic solution that makes event camera maintain rich and stable texture information.
Gaze-enhanced Advanced Pilot Assistance System
A gaze enhanced perception-aware assistive teleoperation framework, making drone operation easy for everyone.
Event-based Dynamic Objact Avoidance System
Perception involving depth and event sensing, with low latency and high precision.
UAV Agile Flight System
A full-body, optimization-based, yaw-considered real-time motion planning framework for aerial robots.
Light-weight Quadruped Robot
A light-weight quadruped designed and built in fresh year.
Electromagnetic Throw System
A throw system that is able to automunously find the target, estimate target's depth and calculate parabola.
Challenge Arena Fighting Robot
An autonomous robot with ability to move over terrains, detect and attack the opponent autonomously.
AirDev: Aerial Autonomy Development Environment
A full-stack autonomy development environment for aerial robots. Support 30+ large-scale environments with multiple sensor setups.
Microsaccade-inspired Event Camera
A systematic solution that makes event camera maintain rich and stable texture information.
Gaze-enhanced Advanced Pilot Assistance System
A gaze enhanced perception-aware assistive teleoperation framework, making drone operation easy for everyone.
Event-based Dynamic Objact Avoidance System
Perception involving depth and event sensing, with low latency and high precision.
UAV Agile Flight System
A full-body, optimization-based, yaw-considered real-time motion planning framework for aerial robots.
Light-weight Quadruped Robot
A light-weight quadruped designed and built in fresh year.
UAV Natural Gas Pipeline Inspection
An autonumous inspection UAV system. It is feasible of our system to save people from inspecting in dangerous places like cliffs!
Electromagnetic Throw System
A throw system that is able to automunously find the target, estimate target's depth and calculate parabola.
Challenge Arena Fighting Robot
An autonomous robot with ability to move over terrains, detect and attack the opponent autonomously.
Acknowledgement
This website uses the website design and template by Martin
Saveski
