My research is part of DARKO EU project, which aims to develop agile production robots that are efficient,
safe and able to operate in work environments shared with humans. A significant aspect of this environment
is the need for robots to be cognizant of human presence and intentions, allowing for smooth and intuitive interactions.
To achieve this, the focus is on learning probabilistic representations of human motion patterns, i.e. maps of dynamics (MoDs).
By encoding spatio or spatio-temporal patterns of human motion as environmental features, the learned MoDs can be
exploited to infer goal locations, constraints, and preferences implicitly, which is crucial for multimodal
long-term human motion prediction. Efforts are also directed toward enhancing the efficiency and flexibility of
learning these patterns, including online updates with new observations.
Before starting my doctoral studies, I worked as a software engineer at Klarna AB and Ericsson AB in Stockholm, Sweden.
Oct,2024: I finish mid-term seminar in Örebro University.
Sep,2024: I completed 6 month research internship in Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart, Germany.
June,2024: Darko integration week + Milestone 3, in Munich, Germany.
May,2024: I present our paper, LaCE-LHMP, in ICRA 24, Yokohama, Japan.
Research
LaCE-LHMP: Airflow Modelling-Inspired Long-Term Human Motion Prediction By Enhancing Laminar Characteristics in Human Flow
Yufei Zhu,
Han Fan, Andrey Rudenko, Martin Magnusson, Erik Schaffernicht, Achim J Lilienthal
ICRA 2024
CLiFF-LHMP: Using Spatial Dynamics Patterns for Long-Term Human Motion Prediction
Yufei Zhu,
Andrey Rudenko, Tomasz P Kucner, Luigi Palmieri, Kai O Arras, Achim J Lilienthal, Martin Magnusson
IROS 2023
A Data-Efficient Approach for Long-Term Human Motion Prediction Using Maps of Dynamics
Yufei Zhu,
Andrey Rudenko, Tomasz P Kucner, Achim J Lilienthal, Martin Magnusson
ICRA 2023 Workshop on 5th LHMP
TH\" OR-MAGNI: A Large-scale Indoor Motion Capture Recording of Human Movement and Robot Interaction
Tim Schreiter, Tiago Rodrigues de Almeida,
Yufei Zhu,
Eduardo Gutierrez Maestro, Lucas Morillo-Mendez, Andrey Rudenko, Luigi Palmieri, Tomasz P Kucner, Martin Magnusson, Achim J Lilienthal
arXiv
THOR-Magni: Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning Models for Role-Conditioned Human Motion Prediction
Tiago Rodrigues De Almeida, Andrey Rudenko, Tim Schreiter,
Yufei Zhu,
Eduardo Gutierrez Maestro, Lucas Morillo-Mendez, Tomasz P Kucner, Oscar Martinez Mozos, Martin Magnusson, Luigi Palmieri, Kai O Arras, Achim J Lilienthal
ICCV 2023 Workshop
The magni human motion dataset: Accurate, complex, multi-modal, natural, semantically-rich and contextualized
Tim Schreiter,
Tiago Rodrigues de Almeida,
Yufei Zhu,
Eduardo Gutierrez Maestro,
Lucas Morillo-Mendez,
Andrey Rudenko,
Tomasz P Kucner,
Oscar Martinez Mozos,
Martin Magnusson,
Luigi Palmieri,
Kai O Arras,
Achim J Lilienthal
RO-MAN 2022 Workshop on SIRRW
Dynamic Agile Production Robots that Learn and Optimise Knowledge and Operations
DARKO EU Project
Örebro University,
TUM, Bosch, University of Pisa, EPFL, University of Lincoln, ACT Operations Research
DARKO is innovating agile production robots for efficient and safe intralogistics in warehouses.
Object Picking and Constrained Placement by Visual Reasoning
Yufei Zhu,
Shih-Min Yang, Rishi Hazra, Kamran Hosseini, Karol Wojtulewicz
We designed a robotic system for precise object manipulation, integrating a perception module, visual reasoning module, and an in-hand perception and control module.