Introduction
Associate Professor Zhang received the Ph.D. degree from the Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China, in 2020. From 2021 to 2023, he was a Post-Doctoral searcher at Beijing University of Chemical Technology. He has published 20 papers in journals such as IEEE TCYB, IEEE TMECH, IEEE TNNLS, and IEEE/CAA JAS. He holds 5 national invention patents and 10 software copyrights. He has participated in many scientific research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and Open Foundation of State Key Laboratories. He won some awards, including the second prize of the 2022 Mechanical Industry Science and Technology Award for Technical Invention, and the first prize of the 2023 China Graduate Robotics Innovation Design Competition Outstanding Instructor.
Teaching
Undergraduate Teaching Postgraduate Teaching
Funding
The National Natural Science Foundation of China: Research on mechanism optimization designing and motion controlling of snake-like manipulator for operating in deep cavity. Autonomous and collaborative operation methods of multiple inspection robots in a large scale chemical industrial environment.
The China Postdoctoral Science Foundation:
Publications
Dong Zhang, Yan Gai, Renjie Ju, Mengchu Zhou*, Zhengcai Cao*. A Cosine Similarity Based Multi-target Path Planning Algorithm for Cable-driven Manipulators, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2024, DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2024.3502317. Dong Zhang, Renjie Ju, Zhengcai Cao*, Reinforcement Learning-Based Motion Control for Snake Robots in Complex Environments, Robotica, 2024, 42(4): 947-961. Dong Zhang, Renjie Ju, Zhengcai Cao*, DDPG-based Path Planning for Cable-driven Manipulators in Multi-obstacle Environments, Robotica, Published online 2024:1-13. doi:10.1017/S0263574724001048. Dong Zhang, Hao Yuan, Zhengcai Cao*, Environmental Adaptive Control of a Snake-like Robot with Variable Stiffness Actuators, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2020, 7(3): 745-751. Zhengcai Cao, Dong Zhang*, Mengchu Zhou*, Direction Control and Adaptive Path Following of 3-D Snake-Like Robot Motion, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2022, 52(10): 10980-10987.
Awards
Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program By BAST Boxue Young Scholar by Beijing University of Chemical Technology The 2022 Mechanical Industry Science and Technology Award for Technical Invention The first prize of the 2023 China Graduate Robotics Innovation Design Competition Outstanding Instructor. Outstanding Instructors of the China Graduate Robotics Innovation Design Competition in 2023 and 2024. The First Prize of Beijing University of Chemical Technology Outstanding Postdoctoral.
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