Zhaoliang Zheng
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Class of 2024
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: zhz03@g.ucla.edu
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, UC San Diego, 2017 - 2019
B.S., Process Equipment and Control Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, 2013 - 2017
Github:
Current: https://github.com/zhz03
During M.S. in UCSD: https://github.com/zhz503
Research:
Conference proceedings:
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Zhaoliang Zheng, Thomas R. Bewley, Falko Kuester, "Point Cloud-Based Target-Oriented 3D Path Planning for UAVs", 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS 2020).
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Zheng, Zhaoliang. "A Novel BTT and STT Switch Control for Surface-to-Air Missiles." In 2019 International Conference on Mathematics, Big Data Analysis and Simulation and Modelling (MBDASM 2019). Atlantis Press, 2019.
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Antoni Viros i Martin,Kewei Cheng, Zhaoliang Zheng, Amy Fang,Hadas Kress-Gazit, Ankur Mehta, Yizhou Sun, Daniel Selva,"Decentralized Context-Based On-Board Planning for Earth Observation Missions", AIAA SciTech Forum 2020
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Pencheng Cao, James Strawson, Xuebin Zhu, Everbrook Zhou, Chase Lazar, Dominique Meyer, Zhaoliang Zheng, "BeagleRover: An Open-Source 3D-printable Robotic Platform for Engineering Education and Research" AIAA SciTech Forum 2021
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Zhaoliang Zheng, Jiahao Li, Parth Agrawal, Zhao Lei, Aaron John-Sabu, Ankur Mehta, "User Based Design and Evaluation Pipelineo for Indoor Airships", submitted to ICRA 2022 arXiv
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Isaac A. Cabrera, Zhaoliang Zheng, Patricia Castillo, Eric Ngo, Sebastian Troncoso, Win-Ying Zhao, Niyonika Sheth, Connie Gean, Jan Hsiao, John Vincent Laxa, Joseph Martin, Marc A. Meyers, Joanna M. McKittrick, Ramesh R. Rao, Albert Y. Lin, "Smartphone Telemedicine: A Novel Workflow for Creating Prosthetic Sockets Using Semi-automated Photogrammetry", TechRxiv
Blog posts
- 04/04/2022 : FORAY - Hovering infront of ball after using new Nicla Vision camera
- 03/26/2022 : FORAY - Send Green ball detection data from Nicla Vision via WIFI
- 03/26/2022 : FORAY - Detecting green ball and goal using Nicla Vision
- 03/11/2022 : FORAY - KF algorithm on green ball tracking
- 03/09/2022 : FORAY - Green Ball Detection and Autonomous Control flying test
- 02/22/2022 : FORAY - Hovering flying test 1
- 02/18/2022 : FORAY - The goal detection flying test 1
- 02/09/2022 : FORAY - Goal detection using color threshold algorithm
- 02/09/2022 : FORAY - Green ball detection using color threshold
- 02/04/2022 : FORAY - Test live video from ESP32CAM with ML color detection and color threshold methods
- 02/03/2022 : FORAY - Test live video with ML color detection and color threshold methods
- 01/24/2022 : FORAY - Setup the prototype
- 01/11/2022 : How to use git for collaborative code development
- 11/09/2021 : FORAY - 6 Weeks Summary
- 11/06/2021 : FORAY - The green ball capture and tried to get into the hoop (the integrated system test)
- 11/06/2021 : FORAY - Green ball tracking with the integrated system
- 11/04/2021 : FORAY - Blimp getting into the hoop using ESP-32 CAM as feedback
- 11/02/2021 : FORAY - Test two esp32-cam running at the same time
- 10/27/2021 : FORAY - Field test in a bigger room (Demo)
- 10/26/2021 : FORAy - ESP32 Cam run time issues
- 10/26/2021 : FORAY - Keyboard interaction on the blimp control (demo)
- 10/23/2021 : FORAY - High level integrated logic is now finished and tested in the lab
- 10/20/2021 : FORAY - ESP32 cam detecting green ball in the lab
- 10/16/2021 : FORAY - TWO-way communication between two esp32
- 10/14/2021 : FORAY - Detailed observations and action items of improvement after the failure of the first integrated test
- 10/11/2021 : FORAY - New way of doing image detection
- 10/09/2021 : FORAY - Blimp detects and move toward the April Tag + Hoop on the simulation playground (demo)
- 10/09/2021 : FORAY - Blimp recognized and moved toward April Tag in the simulation room (Demo)
- 10/07/2021 : FORAY - Blimp recognize and move toward an April tag (Demo)
- 10/02/2021 : FORAY - Test the green ball detection and feedback control on a newly designed blimp
- 09/30/2021 : FORAY - Blimp can recognize and move toward a green ball using color detection
- 08/26/2021 : FORAY - Experiments (altitude control)
- 08/05/2021 : FORAY - Testing the property of different motor + propellers combination
- 08/05/2021 : FORAY - Flying test with the feather board esp32
- 08/05/2021 : FORAY - Change input commands to acquire correct FBUDLR motor outputs
- 08/05/2021 : FORAY - Collecting green ball data with distance
- 07/29/2021 : FORAY - Adjust the forward/backward/up/down control according to different configurations
- 07/29/2021 : FORAY - Test different motor + propellers combination with feather board esp32
- 07/29/2021 : FORAY - New feather board design and structure design
- 07/28/2021 : successful primitive blimp automation
- 07/15/2021 : FORAY -- Optitrack system task completed
- 07/15/2021 : FORAY - Multiple green balls data collection
- 07/15/2021 : FORAY - Manual remote control of feather board esp32
- 07/08/2021 : FORAY - Test motor board with different motors and batteries
- 07/08/2021 : FORAY - Test servo motor limitation with code
- 07/08/2021 : FORAY - Visualize the rigid body object under opti-track system
- 07/01/2021 : FORAY - Testing adafruit feather board software and hardware
- 06/30/2021 : BTO-RRT algorithm has been released
- 06/23/2021 : ARblimp - The manufacture process of making a PE balloon envelope
- 06/23/2021 : FORAY - Testing the streaming function of opti-track system
- 06/09/2021 : FORAY - Blimp PCB design
- 06/09/2021 : FORAY - Learning PCB board design
- 05/30/2021 : Assemble and play around with prototype blimp
- 05/20/2021 : LAB 3D Scan point cloud
- 05/13/2021 : Some lecture notes and materials about "Machine learning" and "algorithms"
- 04/29/2021 : FORAY - Testing control using camera
- 04/29/2021 : FORAY - The detailed manufacturing process of making balloon
- 04/21/2021 : ROS ready-to-go Virtual Machine system
- 04/12/2021 : FORAY - Flying test: tested two FPV cameras
- 04/12/2021 : FORAY - Flying test: Vertical and horizontal control
- 03/31/2021 : FORAY - Flying test: Vertical control on a newly designed balloon
- 03/31/2021 : FORAY - A newly designed balloon v.s. previous balloon
- 03/31/2021 : FORAY - Capture mechanism testing on Balloon: Capture ball with FPV cam
- 03/31/2021 : FORAY - Flying test: Try one design and control on fish balloon
- 03/25/2021 : FORAY - Flying test: Different thrust on spherical balloon
- 03/25/2021 : FORAY - Manufactured a 4-side balloon
- 03/25/2021 : FORAY - Improvement of ball-capture mechanism
- 03/20/2021 : FORAY - Ball-catching mechanism design
- 03/17/2021 : FORAY - Find a good way to manufacture balloon
- 03/11/2021 : FORAY - DIY custom mylar balloon
- 03/04/2021 : FORAY - Flying test case: vertical flying test
- 02/25/2021 : FORAY - Bata test of Crazyflie setup on a saucer-shape blimp
- 02/23/2021 : FORAY - CFD analysis and drag coefficient of saucer shape balloon using Ansys fluent
- 02/19/2021 : FORAY - Ansys fluent example learning
- 02/10/2021 : FORAY - Color Segmentation on collected data
- 02/09/2021 : FORAY - Different shape with different dimension -- case study
- 02/09/2021 : FORAY - measure drag coefficient
- 02/03/2021 : FORAY - collecting green ball data
- 02/03/2021 : Foray - IROS paper system overview
- 02/02/2021 : FORAY - voltage - thrust plot with different motor + propeller combination
- 02/01/2021 : FORAY - Thoughts about ball gripper
- 01/28/2021 : DARPA - brainstrom and next paper ideas
- 01/28/2021 : FORAY - Theoretical analysis and discussion about weight distribution
- 01/25/2021 : FORAY - Color Segmentation
- 01/25/2021 : FORAY - Experiment on thrust
- 01/25/2021 : FORAY - Crazyflie manual control
- 01/21/2021 : FORAY - regroup and beyond
- 12/15/2020 : FORAY - Paper milestone write-up and plan
- 11/24/2020 : FORAY - Summary of fist competition
- 11/03/2020 : FORAY - Tutorial: Controlling multiple control boards through game controllers
- 10/27/2020 : FORAY - Different Configuration test
- 10/19/2020 : FORAY - fin control
- 10/12/2020 : DARPA CRREATE project - Sampling based Hypothesis testing
- 10/07/2020 : FORAY - Control 2 blimps
- 10/01/2020 : Foray - First distributed prototype blimp
- 10/01/2020 : My new paper has been submitted to Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems
- 09/16/2020 : Clownfish balloon air leakage situation
- 09/10/2020 : Different thrust configuration on blimps
- 09/09/2020 : Manual control integration test
- 09/01/2020 : A summary of the failure experiments
- 08/24/2020 : Clownfish balloon with propellers (Prototype V0)
- 08/17/2020 : Bluetooth and WIFI remote control motors
- 07/24/2020 : Markdown Beginner's Guide
- 07/23/2020 : Cubic Spline Smoother Algorithm
- 07/17/2020 : Way point smoother optimization
- 07/10/2020 : Bi-directional Target-Oriented RRT Based Path Planning Algorithm
- 06/25/2020 : Remote connection Tips
