Qingchen Bi 毕清晨

Ph.D. candidate

Nankai University
Tianjin, China

Email: 2120210386@mail.nankai.edu.cn

Biography

Qingchen Bi was born in Cangzhou, Hebei, China in 1997. He received the B.S. degree in Detection, Guidance and Control Technology from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China, in 2021. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Control Science and Engineering at Nankai University, Tianjin, China.

His research interests include multi-robot autonomous exploration, motion planning, and reinforcement learning.

Selected Journal Papers

Qingchen Bi, Xuebo Zhang, Jian Wen, Zhangchao Pan, Shiyong Zhang, Runhua Wang, Jing Yuan, CURE: A Hierarchical Framework for Multi-Robot Autonomous Exploration Inspired by Centroids of Unknown Regions, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 3773-3786, 2024. [IEEE Xplore link]
Qingchen Bi, Xuebo Zhang, Shiyong Zhang, Runhua Wang, Lun Li, Jing Yuan, LRAE: Large-Region-Aware Safe and Fast Autonomous Exploration of Ground Robots for Uneven Terrains, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-Letters), vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 11186 - 11193, 2024. [IEEE Xplore link]
Jian Wen, Xuebo Zhang, Qingchen Bi, Hui Liu, Jing Yuan, Yongchun Fang, G²VD planner: Efficient motion planning with grid-based generalized Voronoi diagrams, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), vol. 22, pp. 3743-3755, 2025. [arXiv link][IEEE Xplore link]
Yichen Song, Runhua Wang, Qingchen Bi, Zhangchao Pan, Haiming Gao, Xuebo Zhang, STVO: Spatial-Temporal Constrained Velocity Obstacle for Safe Navigation among Pedestrians, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (T-VT), vol. 74, no. 9, pp. 13580 - 13591, 2025. [IEEE Xplore link]

Selected Conference Papers

Qingchen Bi, Xuebo Zhang, Shiyong Zhang, Zhangchao Pan, Runhua Wang, TMPU: A framework for terrain traversability mapping and planning in uneven and unstructured environments, 2023 42nd Chinese Control Conference (CCC), 2023, pp. 01-07. [IEEE Xplore link]
Jin Wen, Xuebo Zhang, Qingchen Bi, Zhangchao Pan, Yanghe Feng, Jing Yuan, Yongchun Fang, MRPB 1.0: A unified benchmark for the evaluation of mobile robot local planning approaches, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021, pp. 8238-8244. [arXiv link][IEEE Xplore link]
Qianli Dong, Haobo Xi, Shiyong Zhang, Qingchen Bi, Tianyi, Li, Ziyu Wang, Xuebo Zhang, Fast and communication-efficient multi-uav exploration via voronoi partition on dynamic topological graph, 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024, pp. 14063-14070. [IEEE Xplore link]

Professional Activities

Reviewer, IEEE T-ASE, IEEE RA-Letters, IEEE ICRA, IEEE IROS, etc

Honors and Awards

2025, 南开大学公能奖学金二等
2024, 南开大学公能奖学金一等
2021, 南开大学推免奖学金一等
2021, 西北工业大学优秀毕业生
2020, 国家奖学金
2019, 国家奖学金
2019, 国际水中机器人大赛冠军
2019, 全国海洋航行器设计制作大赛国家二等奖