Zhaoyuan Gu

I'm a Ph.D. student in Robotics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, working in the LIDAR group. My research interests include planning and control methods for humanoid robots, robust bipedal locomotion, and loco-manipulation.

Before this, I earned my Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and my Bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University.

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Research Experience

My work focuses on legged robots interacting with the physical world — bipedal locomotion, whole-body control, and reinforcement learning for robotics.

Dynamic balance and motion control of a wheeled humanoid robot platform.

Continuous brachiation locomotion for a monkey-inspired robot, swinging between handholds.

Wave gait locomotion for a hexapod robot navigating staircase environments.

Motion planning and obstacle avoidance for the UR5 robotic arm using MoveIt.

Reinforcement learning with adversarial robustness for continuous control tasks.

Bipedal locomotion control for a full-size humanoid robot.

Independent Projects

A bio-inspired snake robot with serpentine locomotion gaits.

An open-source collection of robot designs developed at Tsinghua University's SkyWorks lab.

CAM toolpath generation and machining simulation using Autodesk Fusion 360.

Drake concepts and C++ examples for robot simulation and control.