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Focus

My Major and Academic Focus

Autonomous Driving

1. 3D driving simulator building
2. Perception and Control such as ACC (Adaptive Cruise Control) and Lane Keeping with Computer Vision.

Eco-Driving Control

With the V2V & V2I, Eco-driving of CAVs (Connected and Automated Vehicles) can be achieved with MPC or DRL (Deep Reinforcement Learning).

Vehicle System Modeling

Vehicle system modeling for Conventional Vehicle / BEV / HEV. Run large scale simulation with HPC for performance & energy analysis.

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Multi-Agent DRL

MADDPG (Multi Agent Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient) is being used.

Lane Detection

Window Sliding & Feature Extraction.

3D Visual Simulator

Based on Carla. Implemented ACC and LKC. Also Connected to 6-DOF driving simulator.

Self Driving RC vehilce

Lane keeping by lane detection using RGB camera; Also detects road signs to do longitudinal control.

Autonomous Driving of Nissan Leaf

Autonomous driving in a close area using RTK GPS & IMU.

End-to-End Self Driving

Train a self-driving vehicle in Unity environment by only providing the data from the front cameras.

Experience

Timeline

  • Jan. 2019 - Present

    Argonne National Laboratory

    Staff of Vehicle & Mobility Simulation Group
    Energy System Division
    Research about intelligent eco-mobility, 3D visual simulator building for CAVs, large-scale simulation and computer vision.

  • Jan. 2018 - Jan. 2019

    CU-ICAR

    Greenville SC, USA
    Research Assistant
    in CRA lab at CU-ICAR (Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research)
    Research about autonomous driving, machine learning, computer vision, control strategy, 3D simulator building.

  • Aug. 2017 - Aug. 2019

    Clemson University

    Greenville SC, USA
    M.S. in Automotive Engineering.

  • Sept. 2013 - June 2017

    Wuhan University of Technology

    Wuhan, Hubei, China
    B.S. in Automotive Engineering.

  • One day in 1995

    My birth

    I was born in Qingdao, China.

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Yaozhong (Yao) Zhang

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