Safety-Critical Quadrotor Navigation Using Fourth-Order Control Barrier Functions with Full Nonlinear Quadrotor Dynamics

Yanze Liu
Ph.D. Student in Robotics Engineering
Yanze (Youngzee) Liu is a robotics researcher specializing in optimization-based control theory and its application. He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Automation from the Beijing University of Chemical Technology in 2021, and his Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2024. His current research interests are in the areas of safety in robotics and machine learning.
Dhruv Madhusudan Agrawal
M.S. in Robotics Engineering, now at Pixels on Target
I am an MS student in Robotics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, with a focus on, control systems, perception and path planning. My research interests lie in drone technology as well as mobile robots with real-time control and perception algorithms. My aim is to develop autonomous multi-robot systems capable of navigating in the real-world safely at high-speed.