I am an Associate Professor from the Robotics Institute in School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation at Beihang University, China. Before joining Beihang, I was a Research Fellow from the Department of Mechanical Engineering in National University of Singapore. I obtained PhD degree from Department of Mechanical Engineering of Johns Hopkins University, USA, focusing on Robotics, robot motion planning, imitation learning, etc. I was a member of the Robot and Protein Kinematics Lab of the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR), under the guidance of Prof. Gregory S. Chirikjian. I received the Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China. And I was a member of the State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System. 

Research Interests

Service robot; Robot path and motion planning; Imitation learning; Embodied AI; Computational geometry

Representative Publications

• Ruan, S., Liu, W., Wang, X., Meng, X. and Chirikjian, G.S., 2024. PRIMP: PRobabilistically-Informed Motion Primitives for Efficient Affordance Learning from Demonstration. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. doi: 10.1109/TRO.2024.3390052.
  

• Ruan, S., Poblete, K.L., Wu, H., Ma, Q. and Chirikjian, G.S., 2023. Efficient Path Planning in Narrow Passages for Robots with Ellipsoidal Components. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 39(1), pp. 110-127.doi: 10.1109/TRO.2022.3187818.
  

• Ruan, S., Wang, X. and Chirikjian, G.S., 2022.Collision Detection for Unions of Convex Bodies With Smooth Boundaries Using Closed-FormContact Space Parameterization. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(4), pp.9485-9492.
  

• Ruan, S. and Chirikjian, G. S., 2021. Closed-Form Minkowski Sums of Convex Bodies with Smooth PositivelyCurved Boundaries. Computer-Aided Design, p.103133.
  

• Ruan, S., Ding, J., Ma, Q. and Chirikjian, G.S., 2019. The Kinematics of Containment for N-Dimensional Ellipsoids. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 11(4), p.041005. doi:10.1115/1.4043458.

Personal Website

https://ruansp.github.io