Haoran Song

I received the Ph.D. degree from Robotics Institute, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2021, where I worked on robotics, autonomous driving, and deep learning under the supervision of Prof. Michael Yu Wang and Prof. Qifeng Chen.

I was a visiting scholar at the Robotics, Perception and Learning Lab, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2018, working with Prof. Danica Kragic. Before that, I obtained the Bachelor degree in Flight Vehicle Design and Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2016.

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Experience

I'm currently working as a principal engineer at Huawei IAS BU, focusing on developing Prediction & Planning algorithms.

In my Ph.D. study, I stepped on this journey towards Autonomous Driving and injected traditional planning ideas into learning-based methods. Prior to that, much of my research is about robotics planning under physical interaction.

My first-authored publications are listed below.

PiP architecture Learning to Predict Vehicle Trajectories with Model-based Planning
Haoran Song, Di Luan, Wenchao Ding, Michael Yu Wang, Qifeng Chen

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2021), London, UK
Ranked 1st on the Argoverse Motion Forecasting Leaderboard by March 2021

Make accurate, feasible, and robust trajectory prediction by a novel architecture with a model-based generator and a learning-based evaluator.

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PiP architecture PiP: Planning-informed Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving
Haoran Song, Wenchao Ding, Yuxuan Chen, Shaojie Shen, Michael Yu Wang, Qifeng Chen

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2020), Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Inform the multi-agent future prediction with ego vehicle's planning in a novel planning-prediction-coupled pipeline.

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PiP architecture Multi-Object Rearrangement with Monte Carlo Tree Search: A Case Study on Planar Nonprehensile Sorting
Haoran Song*, Joshua A. Haustein*, Weihao Yuan, Kaiyu Hang, Michael Yu Wang, Danica Kragic, Johannes A. Stork

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020), Las Vegas, USA

Learn policy from MCTS and employ it to reinforce MCTS, to address sorting task under multi-contact physics.

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Herding visualization Herding by Caging: A Formation-based Motion Planning Framework for Guiding Mobile Agents
Haoran Song*, Anastasiia Varava*, Oleksandr Kravchenko, Danica Kragic, Michael Yu Wang, Florian T. Pokorny, Kaiyu Hang

Autonomous Robots (AURO), 2021

Apply computational geometry and topology in planning a set of mobile robots to address the interesting herding task.

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Cover image of Science Robotics Perching and resting - A paradigm for UAV maneuvering with modularized landing gears
Kaiyu Hang*, Ximin Lyu*, Haoran Song*, Johannes A Stork*, Aaron M Dollar, Danica Kragic, Fu Zhang (* denotes equal contribution)

Science Robotics, 2019
Cover article

Drones that perch like birds could go on much longer flights!
with reported by MIT Technology Review, Nature Electronics, National Public Radio, etc.

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Grasp planning results. Fingertip surface optimization for robust grasping on contact primitives
Haoran Song, Michael Yu Wang, Kaiyu Hang

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2018 &
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2018), Brisbane, Australia

Rethink grasp planning from geometry matching rather than traditional point contact modeling.

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Others

These include other projects and issued patents.

Grasp planning results. Reinforcement Learning in Topology-based Representation for Human Body Movement with Whole Arm Manipulation
Weihao Yuan, Kaiyu Hang, Haoran Song, Danica Kragic, Michael Y. Wang, Johannes A. Stork

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2019), Montreal, Canada

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key points involved in the patent Robotic fingertip design and grasping on contact primitives
Kaiyu Hang, Haoran Song

US Patent App. 16/192,169, 2019

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Service
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)
Reviewer for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Reviewer for IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

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