Tianci Wen

Currently, i am focusing on world models. I have a strong interest in 3D vision and embodied AI (perception).

Since July 2021, I have been pursuing a five-year Ph.D. program at Nankai University, under the supervision of Professor Yongchun Fang. From 2017 to 2021, I spent an unforgettable time completing my undergraduate studies at Jilin University.

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Highlights

LIVER
SLAM in underground mine

Research
LIVER: A Tightly Coupled LiDAR-Inertial-Visual State Estimator With High Robustness for Underground Environments
Tianci Wen, Yongchun Fang*, Biao Lu, Xuebo Zhang, Chaoquan Tang
RA-L with IROS , 2024, oral
video / poster

Carefully coupled multi-senors lets the robot localization and mapping robustly in real-world underground mines.

Highly grateful for the kindly support from Xuebo Zhang, Zhixing Song, and Chaoquan Tang.

Robot projects
A Tightly Coupled LiDAR-Inertial-Visual State Estimator for Snake Robot
Tianci Wen, Wei Huang, Yihan Chen, Yongchun Fang*
Start from Dec. 2023

Discription: We simultaneously integrated a LiDAR, camera, and IMU into a space of approximately 10 cubic centimeters. Various gaits and speeds of the snake robot were tested, all achieving high-precision localization and mapping (with errors within 2 cm compared to motion capture).

A Navgation Framework for wheeled-leg robot
Tianci Wen, Biao Lu, Yongchun Fang*
From the winter of 2021 to the summer of 2022

Discription: We implemented an indoor navigation framework for the wheeled-leg robot based on the ROS move_base framework and LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO).

Seniors

Zhixing Song: The guide in SLAM and research

Haiming Gao: The guide in research direction

Industry Robot

Early-stage papers:

Tianci Wen, Yongchun Fang*, Biao Lu. Neural network-based adaptive sliding mode control for underactuated dual overhead cranes suffering from matched and unmatched disturbances. Auton. Intell. Syst. 2, 1 (2022).

Tianci Wen, Yongchun Fang*, Biao Lu. Adaptive antiswing control for underactuated dual overhead crane system using neural network. Acta Automatica Sinica, 2023, 49(1): 111−121

Since the end of 2023, I have been involved with Yihan Chen and Shiwei Ren in the Xuzhou Engineering Machinery Industry 'Key Technology Research' project titled 'Development of an L3 Intelligent Crane Operation Control System.' We are currently working on the software and hardware development, as well as the implementation, of a SLAM system for a giant industrial crane.