Li Zhenyu, Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering of Tongji University, jointed the Department of Robotics Engineering of Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences) from Oct. 2023, and built the computer vision for robot automation laboratory (CV4RA lab.). He has published more than 30 papers in SCI journals and robotics academic conferences, including CVPR, IROS. He achieved the Best Paper Finalist Award at the “2019 IEEE ROBIO Conference” (Top 1.5%). He was awarded the “Outstanding Graduate of Tongji University” in 2023 (Top 2%). He currently serves as a reviewer for several TOP journals (i.e., IEEE-TII, IEEE-T-ITS, IEEE-RAL,…). His current research covers localization and navigation for intelligent unmanned systems (including robots, autonomous vehicles, UAVs, etc.).

📣 We welcome outstanding and self-motivating undergraduate students (second-year, third-year, and graduate students) to participate in subject competitions, and (sophomore students and above) to jointly carry out research on cutting-edge topics. We also welcome outstanding postgraduate students from both inside and outside the school to collaborate on AI & Robotic research.

Available Research Topics (for prospective students):

Cross-domain adaptive visual place recognition for mobile robots
Multi-modal Perception-based automatic navigation for intelligent vehicles
Multi-Robot-Collaboration SLAM
Heterogeneous multi-agent collaboration for visual place recognition
Multi-UAVs visual perception with low-illumination environments
Image quality analysis (fog, rain or snow removal technology)

Research Topics

Visual Place Recognition for Unmanned Systems (mobile robot/UAV/autonomous driving vehicle)
Cross-modal Perception
Intelligent Driving
Embodied Intelligence

News

2025.12: Our paper “Quadruplet-attention transformer for scale-invariant robot placerecognition” has been accepted by《Expert Systems With Applications》 ! well done👏👏👏!!!
2025.11: Our paper “FourierPlace: A Vision-Language Localization Framework Based on Frequency Domain Representations” has been accepted by《IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters》 ! well done👏👏👏!!!
2025.06: Our paper “MambaPlace: Text-to-Point-Cloud Cross-Modal Place Recognition with Attention Mamba Mechanisms” has been accepted by《IROS-2025》 ! well done👏👏👏!!!
2025.06: Our paper “Bridging Text and Vision: A Multi-View Text-Vision Registration Approach for Cross-Modal Place Recognition” has been accepted by《IROS-2025》 ! well done👏👏👏!!!
2025.01: Our paper “CWPFormer: Towards High-performance Visual Place Recognition for Robot with Cross-weight Attention Learning” has been accepted by《IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence》 ! well done👏👏👏!!!
2025.01: Our paper “Multi-Modal Attention Perception for Intelligent Vehicle Navigation using Deep Reinforcement Learning” has been accepted by《IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems》 ! well done👏👏👏!!!