📝 Selected Projects

Follow-Bench: A Unified Motion Planning Benchmark for Socially-Aware Robot Person Following

Hanjing Ye, Weixi Situ, Jianwei Peng, Yu Zhan, Bingyi Xia, Kuanqi Cai, Hong Zhang

Under Review

[arXiv] [site] [github]

TPT-Bench: A Large-Scale, Long-Term and Robot-Egocentric Dataset for Benchmarking Target Person Tracking

Hanjing Ye, Yu Zhan, Weixi Situ, Guangcheng Chen, Jingwen Yu, Ziqi Zhao, Kuanqi Cai, Arash Ajoudani, Hong Zhang

2026 International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)

[arXiv] [video] [site] [doi]

RPF-Search: Field-based Search for Robot Person Following in Unknown Dynamic Environments

Hanjing Ye, Kuanqi Cai, Yu Zhan, Bingyi Xia, Arash Ajoudani, Hong Zhang

2025 IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (T-MECH)

[arXiv] [video] [site] [doi]

Monocular Person Localization Under Camera Ego-motion

Yu Zhan, Hanjing Ye, Hong Zhang

2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

[arXiv] [site] [doi]

Person Re-Identification for Robot Person Following with Online Continual Learning

Hanjing Ye, Jieting Zhao, Yu Zhan, Weinan Chen, Li He, Hong Zhang

2024 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL)

[paper] [github] [doi] [site]

Human Orientation Estimation Under Partial Observation

Jieting Zhao, Hanjing Ye, Yu Zhan, Hao Luan, Hong Zhang

2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

[paper] [github] [doi] [video] [Chinese report (by ShenLan AI)]

Robot Person Following Under Partial Occlusion

Hanjing Ye, Jieting Zhao, Yaling Pan, Weinan Chen, Li He, Hong Zhang

2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

[paper] [github] [doi] [site]