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Biography

Tin Lun LAM is an Assistant Professor - Presidential Young Fellow at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, an Executive Deputy Director of the National-local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Robotics and Intelligent Manufacturing, a Director of the Center for Intelligent Robots at Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society, and a Vice Chair of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Guangzhou Chapter. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and serves as an Associate Editor for several prestigious journals, including IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) and Journal of Field Robotics (JFR). He received his B.Eng. Degree with First Class Honors and Ph.D. Degree in Robotics and Automation from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2006 and 2010, respectively. His research focus includes Field Robotics and Multi-robot Collaboration. He has authored and co-authored 4 books and published more than 70 research papers in top-tier international journals and conference proceedings in Robotics and AI including T-RO, IJRR, Nature Communications, TPAMI, TIP, JFR, TMECH, RA-L, ICRA, and IROS. He has been granted more than 80 patents. He received the IEEE/ASME TMECH Best Paper Award in 2011, the IEEE/RSJ IROS Best Paper Award on Robot Mechanisms and Design in 2020, Xiong Youlun Zhihu Excellent Youth Scientist Award in 2023, and the Distinguished Young Scholars Fund from Guangdong Natural Science Foundation in 2023. His research outcomes were reported in many internationally renowned media, including Reuters, Forbes, Discovery, IEEE Spectrum, CCTV, NIKKEI, and NHK.

Publications

Books:

  1. Julien Bourgeois, Jamie Paik, Benoît Piranda, Justin Werfel, Sabine Hauert, Alyssa Pierson, Heiko Hamann, Tin Lun Lam, Fumitoshi Matsuno, Negar Mehr, Abdallah Makhoul, "Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems - 16th International Symposium," Volume 28 of Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 16 Apr 2024.

  2. Gang Peng, Tin Lun Lam, Chunxu Hu, Yu Yao, Jintao Liu, Fan Yang, "Introduction to Intelligent Robot System Design: Application Development with ROS," Springer Singapore, 2023. 

  3. Yangsheng Xu, Jingyu Yan, Huihuan Qian, and Tin Lun Lam, “Hybrid Electric Vehicle Design and Control: Intelligent Omnidirectional Hybrids,” McGraw-Hill, December 6, 2013.

  4. Tin Lun Lam, and Yangsheng Xu, “Tree Climbing Robots: Design, Kinematics and Motion Planning,” Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol. 78, Springer-Verlag, March 2012.

Journals: (*Corresponding author) 

  1. Di Wu, Yuxiao Tu, Guanqi Liang, Lijun Zong, Tin Lun Lam*, "Linear-Time Quasi-Static Stability Detection for Modular Reconfigurable Robots," International Journal of Robotics Research, August 20, 2024. (Accepted)

  2. Guanqi Liang, Di Wu, Yuxiao Tu, Tin Lun Lam*, "Decoding Modular Reconfigurable Robots: A Survey on Mechanisms and Design," International Journal of Robotics Research, October 14, 2024.

  3. Lai Wei, Yanzhe Wang, Yibo Hu, Tin Lun Lam*, Yanding Wei*, "Online Dual Robot-Human Collaboration Trajectory Generation by Convex Optimization," Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing,  Volume 91, February 2025, 102850.

  4. Jiatao Ding, Cosimo Della Santina*, Tin Lun Lam*, Jianxin Pang*, Xiaohui Xiao, Nikos Tsagarakis, and Yanlong Huang, "Robust Humanoid Locomotion via Sequential Stepping and Angular Momentum Optimization," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, July 8, 2024.

  5. Liguang Zhou, Yuhongze Zhou, Xiaonan Qi, Junjie Hu, Tin Lun Lam*, Yangsheng Xu, "Feature Pyramid Attention Network for Audio-Visual Scene Classification," CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, April 22, 2024. (Accepted)

  6. Da Zhao, Haobo Luo, Yuxiao Tu, Chongxi Meng, Tin Lun Lam*, "Snail-Inspired Robotic Swarms: A Hybrid Connector Drives Collective Adaptation in Unstructured Outdoor Environments," Nature Communications, April 2024.

  7. Junjie Hu, Chenyou Fan, Mete Ozay, Hualie Jiang, Tin Lun Lam*, "Dense Depth Distillation with Out-of-Distribution Simulated Images," Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), December 2023.

  8. Junjie Hu, Chenyou Fan, Liguang Zhou, Qing Gao, Honghai Liu, Tin Lun Lam*, "Lifelong-MonoDepth: Lifelong Learning for Multidomain Monocular Metric Depth Estimation," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), October 2023.

  9. Guanqi Liang, Lijun Zong, Tin Lun Lam*, "DISG: Driving-Integrated Spherical Gear Enables Singularity-Free Full-Range Joint Motion," IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), September 2023.

  10. Junjie Hu, Chenyou Fan, Xiyue Guo, Liguang Zhou, Tin Lun Lam*, "Self-supervised Single-line LiDAR Depth Completion," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), September 2023.

  11. Yuxiao Tu, Tin Lun Lam*, "Configuration Identification for a Freeform Modular Self-reconfigurable Robot - FreeSN," IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), August 2023.

  12. Junjie Lu, Bi Zeng, Jingtao Tang, Tin Lun Lam, Junbin Wen, "TMSTC*: A Path Planning Algorithm for Minimizing Turns in Multi-robot Coverage," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 07 July 2023.

  13. Yue Wang, Muhan Lin, Xinyi Xie, Yuan Gao, Fuqin Deng, Tin Lun Lam*, "Asymptotically Efficient Estimator for Range-Based Robot Relative Localization," IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), June 2023.

  14. Mingjian Liang, Junjie Hu, Chenyu Bao, Hua Feng, Fuqin Deng, Tin Lun Lam*, "Explicit Attention-Enhanced Fusion for RGB-Thermal Perception Tasks," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), May 2023. 

  15. Hoi-Yin Lee, Peng Zhou, Bin Zhang, Liuming Qiu, Bowen Fan, Anqing Duan, Jingtao Tang, Tin Lun Lam, and David Navarro-Alarcon, "A Distributed Dynamic Framework to Allocate Collaborative Tasks Based on Capability Matching in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems," IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS), April 2023.

  16. Yuan Gao, Junfeng Chen, Xi Chen, Chongyang Wang, Junjie Hu, Fuqin Deng, Tin Lun Lam*, "Asymmetric Self-Play-Enabled Intelligent Heterogeneous Multirobot Catching System Using Deep Multiagent Reinforcement Learning,"  IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), April 2023.

  17. Yuhongze Zhou, Liguang Zhou, Tin Lun Lam*, Yangsheng Xu, "Sampling Propagation Attention with Trimap Generation Network for Natural Image Matting," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), March 2023. 

  18. Liguang Zhou, Yuhongze Zhou, Xiaonan Qi, Junjie Hu, Tin Lun Lam*, Yangsheng Xu, "Attentional Graph Convolutional Network for Structure-aware Audio-Visual Scene Classification," IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM), March 2023.

  19. Jiatao Ding, Tin Lun Lam*, Ligang Ge, Jianxin Pang*, Yanlong Huang, "Safe and Adaptive 3-D Locomotion via Constrained Task-Space Imitation Learning,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), February 2023.

  20. Junjie Hu, Chenyu Bao, Mete Ozay, Chenyou Fan, Qing Gao, Honghai Liu, Tin Lun Lam*, "Deep Depth Completion from Extremely Sparse Data: A Survey," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), December 2022.

  21. Haobo Luo, Tin Lun Lam*, "Auto-Optimizing Connection Planning Method for Chain-Type Modular Self-Reconfiguration Robots," IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), November 2022.

  22. Jingtao Tang, Yuan Gao, Tin Lun Lam*, "Learning to Coordinate for a Worker-Station Multi-robot System in Planar Coverage Tasks," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 12315-12322, October 2022.

  23. Shuai Zhao, Liguang Zhou, Wenxiao Wang, Deng Cai, Tin Lun Lam*, Yangsheng Xu, "Toward Better Accuracy-Efficiency Trade-Offs: Divide and Co-Training," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP), vol. 31, pp. 5869-5880, September 2022.

  24. Lijun Zong, Guanqi Liang, Tin Lun Lam*, "Kinematics Modeling and Control of Spherical Rolling Contact Joint and Manipulator," IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), August 2022.

  25. Ming Li, Tin Lun Lam, Zhiyong Sun, "3-D Inter-robot Relative Localization via Semidefinite Optimization," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 10081-10088, October 2022.

  26. Ran Long, Christian Rauch, Tianwei Zhang, Vladimir Ivan, Tin Lun Lam, Sethu Vijayakumar, "RGB-D SLAM in Indoor Planar Environments with Multiple Large Dynamic Objects," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 8209-8216, July 2022.

  27. Haobo Luo, Tin Lun Lam*, “Adaptive Flow Planning of Modular Spherical Robot Considering Static Gravity Stability,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 4228-4235, April 2022.  

  28. Xiyue Guo, Junjie Hu, Junfeng Chen, Fuqin Deng, Tin Lun Lam*, "Semantic Histogram Based Graph Matching for Real-Time Multi-Robot Global Localization in Large Scale Environment,"  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 8349-8356, October 2021.

  29. Junjie Hu, Xiyue Guo, Junfeng Chen, Guanqi Liang, Fuqin Deng, Tin Lun Lam*, “A Two-stage Unsupervised Approach for Low light Image Enhancement, ”IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 8363-8370, October 2021.

  30. Ronghuai Qi, Amir Khajepour, William W Melek, Tin Lun Lam, Yangsheng Xu, “Design, Kinematics, and Control of a Multijoint Soft Inflatable Arm for Human-Safe Interaction,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 594-609, June 2017.

  31. Wing Kwong Chung, Huihuan Qian, Tin Lun Lam, and Yangsheng Xu, “Novel Design of Gaits on Space Station for Dynamic Disturbance Minimization,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 1392-1403, August 2014. 

  32. Tin Lun Lam, and Yangsheng Xu, “Motion Planning for Tree Climbing with Inchworm-like Robots,” Journal of Field Robotics (JFR), vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 87-101, January 2013.

  33. Tin Lun Lam, and Yangsheng Xu, “Biologically Inspired Tree-climbing Robot with Continuum Maneuvering Mechanism,” Journal of Field Robotics (JFR), vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 843-860, November 2012.

  34. Tin Lun Lam, and Yangsheng Xu, “Climbing Strategy for a Flexible Tree Climbing Robot - Treebot,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 1107-1117, December 2011.

  35. Tin Lun Lam, Huihuan Qian and Yangsheng Xu, “Omnidirectional Steering Interface and Control for a Four-Wheel Independent Steering Vehicle,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 329-338, June 2010. [IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics Best Paper Award]


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