· Personal Profile
I am an Associate Professor from the Robotics Institute, School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University, China. My research interests include service robots, robot motion and path planning, imitation learning, embodied AI, computational geometry, etc. Before joining Beihang, I was a Research Fellow from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore. I obtained PhD degree from Department of Mechanical Engineering of Johns Hopkins University, USA, focusing on Robotics. At Hopkins, I was a member 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 was a member of the State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System. I have published more than 20 papers including IEEE T-RO, IEEE RA-L, Research, IEEE CVPR, IEEE ICRA, etc. And I have served as Associate Editor for ICRA and Session Chair for IROS.
Research Interests
Service robot; Robot path and motion planning; Imitation learning; Embodied AI; Computational geometry
Representative Work
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.