科研力量

        林天麟，香港中文大学（深圳）助理教授-校长青年学者，机器人与智能制造国家地方联合工程实验室常务副主任，深圳市人工智能与机器人研究院智能机器人中心主任，电机电子工程师学会（IEEE）高级会员。分别于2006年和2010年在香港中文大学获得一级荣誉学士学位和博士学位。研究重点包括多机器人系统，新型移动机器人及协作机器人等。获国内外授权专利70余项，发表2部专著，在T-RO、T-MECH、JFR、RA-L、ICRA、IROS顶尖国际期刊及会议发表论文余50篇。获2011年IEEE/ASME T-MECH最佳论文奖, 2020年IROS机器人机构及设计最佳论文奖及2020年IROS最佳应用论文提名奖。研究成果被Reuters、Discovery Channel、IEEE Spectrum、NHK日本放送协会等众多国际知名媒体广泛报导。

Selected Publications

Monographs:

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

2. 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. Shuai Zhao, Liguang Zhou, Wenxiao Wang, Deng Cai, Tin Lun Lam*, Yangsheng Xu, "Towards Better Accuracy-efficiency Trade-offs: Divide and Co-training," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP), August 2022. (Accepted)

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.  

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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 (T-MECH), vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 1392-1403, August 2014. 

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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 (T-MECH), vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 329-338, June 2010. [IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics Best Paper Award]

Conferences: (*Corresponding author) 

1. Lyucheng Xie, Hongzheng Cui, Tin Lun Lam*, "Speed up of Wave-Driven Unmanned Surface Vehicle Using Passively Transformable Two-segment Foils," Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, October 23-27, 2022. (Accepted)

2. Chongxi Meng, Tianwei Zhang, Tin Lun Lam*, "Fast and Comfortable Interactive Robot-to-Human Object Handover," Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, October 23-27, 2022. (Accepted)

3. Huifeng Guan, Yuan Gao, Min Zhao, Yong Yang, Fuqin Deng*, Tin Lun Lam*, "AB-Mapper: Attention and BicNet based Multi-agent Path Planning for Dynamic Environment," Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, October 23-27, 2022. (Accepted)

4. Yuxiao Tu, Guanqi Liang, Tin Lun Lam*, “FreeSN: A Freeform Strut-node Structured Modular Self-reconfigurable Robot - Design and Implementation,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, USA, May 23-27, 2022.

5. Guanqi Liang, Yuxiao Tu, Lijun Zong, Junfeng Chen, Tin Lun Lam*, “Energy Sharing Mechanism for a Freeform Robotic System – FreeBOT,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, USA, May 23-27, 2022.

6. Da Zhao, Tin Lun Lam*, “SnailBot: A Continuously Dockable Modular Self-reconfigurable Robot Using Rocker-bogie Suspension,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, USA, May 23-27, 2022.

7. Fuqin Deng, Hua Feng, Mingjian Liang, Qi Feng, Ningbo Yi, Yong Yang, Yuan Gao, Junfeng Chen, Tin Lun Lam*, “Abnormal Occupancy Grid Map Recognition using Attention Network,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, USA, May 23-27, 2022.

8. Liguang Zhou, Jun Cen, Zhenglong Sun, Tin Lun Lam*, Yangsheng Xu, "BORM: Bayesian Object Relation Model for Indoor Scene Recognition," Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic, September 27 - October 1, 2021.

9. Bo Miao, Liguang Zhou, Ajmal Saeed Mian, Tin Lun Lam*, Yangsheng Xu, "Object-to-Scene: Learning to Transfer Object Knowledge to Indoor Scene Recognition," Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic, September 27 - October 1, 2021.

10. Fuqin Deng, Hua Feng, Mingjian Liang, Hongmin Wang, Yong Yang, Yuan Gao, Junfeng Chen, Junjie Hu, Xiyue Guo, Tin Lun Lam*, "FEANet: Feature-Enhanced Attention Network for RGB-Thermal Real-time Semantic Segmentation," Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic, September 27 - October 1, 2021.

11. Tianwei Zhang, Huayan Zhang, Xiaofei Li*, Junfeng Chen, Tin Lun Lam*, Sethu Vijayakumar, "AcousticFusion: Fusing Sound Source Localization to Visual SLAM in dynamic environments," Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic, September 27 - October 1, 2021.

12. Huayan Zhang, Tianwei Zhang*, Tin Lun Lam*, Sethu Vijayakumar, "PoseFusion2: Simultaneous Background Reconstruction and Human Shape Recovery in Real-time," Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic, September 27 - October 1, 2021.

13. Yuxiao Tu, Guanqi Liang, Tin Lun Lam*, "Graph Convolutional Network based Configuration Detection for Freeform Modular Robot Using Magnetic Sensor Array," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xian, China, May 30 - June 5, 2021.

14. Yan Gao, Lyucheng Xie, Tin Lun Lam*, "Thrust Enhancement of Wave-driven Unmanned Surface Vehicle by using Asymmetric Foil," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xian, China, May 30 - June 5, 2021.

15. Liguang Zhou, Chenping Du, Zhenglong Sun, Tin Lun Lam*, Yangsheng Xu, "Long-Range Hand Gesture Recognition via Attention-based SSD Network," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xian, China, May 30 - June 5, 2021.

16. Xiaoyu Zhang, Lei Yan, Tin Lun Lam, Sethu Vijayakumar, "Task-Space Decomposed Motion Planning Framework for Multi-Robot Loco-Manipulation," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xian, China, May 30 - June 5, 2021.

17. Jiatao Ding, Songyan Xin, Tin Lun Lam, Sethu Vijayakumar, "Versatile Locomotion by Integrating Ankle, Hip, Stepping, and Height Variation Strategies," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xian, China, May 30 - June 5, 2021.

18. Guanqi Liang, Haobo Luo, Ming Li, Huihuan Qian and Tin Lun Lam*, “FreeBOT: A Freeform Modular Self-reconfigurable Robot with Arbitrary Connection Point - Design and Implementation,” Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, NV, USA (Virtual), October 25-29, 2020.  [IROS Best Paper Award on Robot Mechanisms and Design] 

19. Ming Li, Guanqi Liang, Haobo Luo, Huihuan Qian and Tin Lun Lam*, “Robot-to-Robot Relative Pose Estimation based on Semidefinite Relaxation Optimization,” Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, NV, USA (Virtual), October 25-29, 2020.

20. Haobo Luo, Ming Li, Guanqi Liang, Huihuan Qian and Tin Lun Lam*, “An Obstacles-crossing Strategy Based on the Self-reconfiguration of Modular Sphere Robots,” Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, NV, USA (Virtual), October 25-29, 2020.

21. Qinbo Sun, Weimin Qi, Hengli Liu, Zhenglong Sun, Tin Lun Lam, and Huihuan Qian, “OceanVoy: A Hybrid Energy Planning System for Autonomous Sailboat,” Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, NV, USA (Virtual), October 25-29, 2020.  [Finalist for the IROS Best Application Paper Award] 

22. Kaiwen Xue, Chongfeng Liu, Hengli Liu, Ruoyu Xu, Zhenglong Sun, Tin Lun Lam, and Huihuan Qian, “A Two-stage Automatic Latching System for The USVs Charging in Disturbed Berth,” Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, NV, USA (Virtual), October 25-29, 2020.

23. Ruoyu Xu, Hengli Liu, Chongfeng Liu, Zhenglong Sun, Tin Lun Lam, Huihuan Qian, "A Novel Solar Tracker Driven by Waves: From Idea to Implementation", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France, May 31 - June 4, 2020.

24. Ning Ding, Zhenliang Zheng, Junlin Song, Zhenglong Sun, Tin Lun Lam, Huihuan Qian, "CCRobot-III: A Split-Type Wire-Driven Cable Climbing Robot for Cable-Stayed Bridge Inspection", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France, May 31 - June 4, 2020.

25. Ronghuai Qi, Tin Lun Lam, and Yangsheng Xu, “Design and Implementation of a Low-Cost and Lightweight Inflatable Robot Finger”, Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Chicago, Illinois, USA, pp. 28-33, September 14–18, 2014.

26. Tin Lun Lam, Huihuan Qian, and Yangsheng Xu, “Longitudinal Wheel-slip Control for Four Wheel Independent Steering and Drive Vehicles”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, China, pp. 5280-5285, May 31 - June 5, 2014.

27. Ronghuai Qi, Tin Lun Lam, and Yangsheng Xu, “Mechanical design and implementation of a soft inflatable robot arm for safe human-robot interaction”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, China, pp. 3490-3495, May 31 - June 5, 2014.

28. Ronghuai Qi, Tin Lun Lam, and Yangsheng Xu, “Kinematic Modeling and Control of a Multi-joint Soft Inflatable Robot Arm with Cable-Driven Mechanism”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, China, pp. 4819-4824, May 31 - June 5, 2014.

29. Tin Lun Lam, Jingyu Yan, Huihuan Qian, and Yangsheng Xu, “Traction/Braking Force Distribution Algorithm for Omni-directional All-wheel-independent-drive Vehicles”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Kongresszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, pp. 738-743, May 6-10, 2013.

30. Tin Lun Lam, Hoi Wut Yip, Huihuan Qian, and Yangsheng Xu, “Collision Avoidance of Industrial Robot Arms using an Invisible Sensitive Skin”, Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, pp. 4542-4543, October 7-12, 2012.

31. Tin Lun Lam, Huihuan Qian, and Yangsheng Xu, “Direct Yaw Moment Control for Four Wheel Independent Steering and Drive Vehicles based on Centripetal Force Detection”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, pp. 103-108, May 14-18, 2012.

32. Tin Lun Lam, and Yangsheng Xu, “Mechanical Design of a Tree Gripper for Miniature Tree-Climbing Robots”, Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Francisco, California, USA, pp. 1487-1492, September 25-30, 2011.

33. Tin Lun Lam, and Yangsheng Xu, “A Flexible Tree Climbing Robot: Treebot – Design and Implementation”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai, China, pp. 5849-5854, May 9-13, 2011.

34. Tin Lun Lam, and Yangsheng Xu, “Treebot: Autonomous Tree Climbing by Tactile Sensing”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai, China, pp. 789-794, May 9-13, 2011.

35. Tin Lun Lam, Guoqing Xu, Huihuan Qian, and Yangsheng Xu, “Linear-time Path and Motion Planning Algorithm for a Tree Climbing Robot – TreeBot”, Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 4988-4994, October 18-22, 2010. 

36. Huihuan Qian, Guoqing Xu, Jingyu Yan, Tin Lun Lam, Yangsheng Xu, and Kun Xu, “Energy Management for Four-Wheel Independent Driving Vehicle”, Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 5532-5537, October 18-22, 2010. 

37. Tin Lun Lam, Yangsheng Xu, and Guoqing Xu, “Traction Force Distribution on Omni-directional Four Wheel Independent Drive Electric Vehicle”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Kobe, Japan, pp. 3724-3729, May 12-17, 2009.

38. Tin Lun Lam, Huihuan Qian, Yangsheng Xu, and Guoqing Xu, “Omni-directional steer-by-wire interface for four-wheel independent steering vehicle”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Kobe, Japan, pp. 1383-1388, May 12-17, 2009.