About Me

Here is Fanze Kong (Jacky, 孔繁泽).

I am a Ph.D. candidate at The University of Hong Kong (HKU)🏫, [MARS LAB], supervised by [Dr. Fu Zhang] and co-supervised by [Prof. James Lam]. My research interests lie in the areas of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) design, motion planning, LiDAR simulation and multi-UAV autonomous navigation.

I have a proven track record of producing high-quality research that is the author of 14 published papers (1 Science Robotics, 1 TRO, 2 IJRR, 1 Nature Communications, 3 RA-L, 1 ICRA, 4 IROS and 1 AIS).

News and Updates

Oct 2023: Our conference paper “Swashplateless-elevon Actuation for a Dual-rotor Tail-sitter VTOL UAV” won IROS Best Paper Award on Robot Mechanisms and Design and IROS 2023 Best Overall and Best Student Paper Finalist.[Preprint][Youtube]
Sep 2023: Our paper “Occupancy Grid Mapping without Ray-Casting for High-resolution Sensors” is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO). [Preprint][Youtube]
Sep 2023: Our paper “Trajectory Generation and Tracking Control for Aggressive Tail-Sitter Flights” is accepted for publication in International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR).[Preprint][Youtube] [Bilibili]
Sep 2023: Five papers are accepted by 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
Jun 2023: Our paper “Agile motions of a single-actuated, self-rotating UAV”, is selected as the Best Mechanical Design Award at the workshop of “Agile Movements: Animal Behavior, Biomechanics, and Robot Devices” held in 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
Mar 2023: Our paper “A self-rotating, single-actuated UAV with extended sensor field of view for autonomous navigation” is published on and visually featured by Science Robotics.[Link][Youtube] Our paper is presented on the homepage of the Science website.

Academic Background

Nov 2020 - Now: The University of Hong Kong (Ph.D.)
Sep 2016 - Sep 2020: Harbin Institute of Technology (BEng)
Sep 2013 - Sep 2016: Shenzhen Middle School