Lab Director

Prof. Dr. Peng LU
PhD TU Delft

Email: lupeng@hku.hk
University website
Phone: +852 39102548
Google scholar
Researchgate

Education

BSc, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU)
                  Automation
MSc, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU)
                     Nonlinear Flight control
PhD, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
                   Fault-tolerant control for aircraft

Work Experience
Postdoc researcher, ETH Zurich, ADRL lab
                   Motion planning and control for construction robots
Postdoc researcher, ETH Zurich & University of Zurich, RPG Group
                     Vision-based control for UAVs
Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
                     Autonomous UAVs and Robots
University of Hong Kong
                     Autonomous UAVs and Robots

Research Interests
Prof. Dr. Lu is particularly concerned with developing advanced and robust control techniques for different robotic platforms. His interests include but are not limited to the following:
1)      Control for aircraft including UAVs
2)      Control for robotics such as robot manipulators and quadruped robots
3)      Trajectory planning, reinforcement learning, optimal control, nonlinear adaptive control
5) Vision-based navigation and control

Invited Talks
Keynote at Global Conference on UAV application and Anti-UAV 2019
Keynote at ICEDME 2019
IROS 2019 workshop
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Northwestern Polytechnical University
Chengdu Aircraft Design & Research Institute (611)
South China University of Technology

Editorialship and duties
Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology
IROS 2020, 2021, 2022 Associate Editor
IROS 2019 session chair
AIAA Scitech 2015 session co-chair
ROBIO 2019 Programme committee

Awards
2024 ICRA Quadruped Robot Challenges, 2nd place in Tele-operation
2019 IROS autonomous drone racing, 3rd place