Website information updated on 2026.07.18
👋 Hey there!
I am Runjiao Bao, a Ph.D. student at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where I conduct research in surgical and continuum robotics.
Before joining CUHK, I received my M.S. degree in Control Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). I received my B.S. degree in Automation from Jilin University.
During my master’s study, my research focused on the motion planning and control of autonomous mobile robots, particularly 4WIS robots operating in constrained and complex environments. My work combined path planning, trajectory optimization and deep reinforcement learning to improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of robotic systems in real-world applications.
At CUHK, my research focuses on surgical robotics, with particular interests in the modeling and control of continuum robots, intelligent motion planning, and multi-robot cooperation in confined environments.
🔬 Research Interests
- Surgical and continuum robotics
- Motion planning and trajectory optimization
- Robot modeling and control
- Multi-robot coordination in confined environments
News
- 2026.07.17 – My lead-author paper Trajectory Planning for 4WIS Autonomous Ground Vehicles in RORO Terminals Using CBF-Enhanced Deep Reinforcement Learning was accepted by Robotics and Autonomous Systems.
- 2026.04.28 – I was awarded the title of Outstanding Master’s Graduate of Higher Education Institutions in Beijing.
- 2026.04.25 – Accepted the Ph.D. offer from The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Surgical Robotics and Instrumentation Laboratory.
- 2026.04.22 – Our paper Terrain-Coupled Hierarchical Optimization for Multi-Robot Deployment with a Global Reachability-Cost Atlas was accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
- 2026.03.10 – Our paper GMPPO: Guided Model Predictive Path Optimization for Mobile Robots in Obstacle-Constrained Environments was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
- 2026.01.31 – Our paper How bumpy is it? Incremental Online Learning of Terrain-Induced Bumpiness Costs for Off-Road Vehicles was accepted by ICRA 2026.
- 2025.11.19 – I was pleased to obtain an IELTS overall score of 7.0 (7.5/7.5/6.5/6.0).
- 2025.10.29 – I was honored to receive the highly competitive National Graduate Student Scholarship of China.
- 2025.10.21 – I attended IROS 2025 and delivered an oral presentation on our work.
- 2025.09.23 – Our paper Continuously Indexed Domain Generalization for Fault Diagnosis Under Continuously Varying Working Conditions was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
- 2025.09.23 – My lead-author paper STGN: A Spatio-Temporal Graph Network for Real-time and Generalizable Trajectory Planning was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.
- 2025.09.09 – I was invited to review a manuscript for Engineering Research Express, marking my first involvement in academic peer review.
- 2025.09.09 – My lead-author paper Geodesic-Based Path Planning for Port Transfer Robots on Riemannian Manifolds was accepted by Expert Systems With Applications.
- 2025.09.07 – My lead-author preliminary work Hybrid A* Path Planning with Multi-Modal Motion Extension for Four-Wheel Steering Mobile Robots was uploaded to arXiv.
- 2025.07.14 – Our paper An Enhanced Hybrid Metaheuristic for Hierarchical Scheduling in 4WIDS Multi-robot Systems under Confined Environments was accepted by Control Engineering Practice.
- 2025.06.16 – Our three papers Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Trajectory Tracking Framework for 4WS Robot Considering Switch of Steering Modes , Dynamic Network Topology Analysis, Design, and Evaluation for Multi-Robot Vehicle Transfer in High-Density Storage Yards and HFSENet: Hierarchical Fusion Semantic Enhancement Network for RGB-T Semantic Segmentation in Annealing Furnace Operation Area were accepted by IROS 2025.
- 2025.05.25 – Our paper A Multi-Objective Real-Time Trajectory Planning Framework for Human–Machine Mixed Traffic Based on Self-Attention Guided CNN-LSTM was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
- 2025.05.24 – Our paper Autonomous Transfer Robot System for Commercial Vehicles at Ro-Ro Terminals was accepted by Expert Systems With Applications.
- 2025.05.23 – My first lead-author paper A Hierarchical Target Vehicle Pose Detection Framework in Ro-Ro Terminal Environment was accepted by IEEE Sensors Journal.
- 2025.03.11 – Our paper Embodied Intelligence in RO/RO Logistic Terminal: Autonomous Intelligent Transportation Robot Architecture was accepted by SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences.
- 2024.11.24 – As team leader, I led my team to win the National Second Award in the China Postgraduate “Dual-Carbon” Innovation Competition.
- 2024.10.25 – As team leader, I led my team to win the National Third Award in the China Postgraduate Robot Innovation and Design Competition.
- 2024.10.14 – As one of the key members, we won the National Gold Award in the China International College Students’ Innovation Competition. Congratulations!
- 2023.09.01 – I have officially become a master's student at Beijing Institute of Technology - Institute of Intelligent Sensing and Motion Control.