🎊 Welcome to my website!

I am currently a Ph.D student in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) under the supervison of Prof. Jiankun Wang and Prof. Max Q.-H. Meng. My research interest includes robot perception and path planning.

📝 Publications

$\dagger$ indicates equal contribution, and $^{\ast}$ indicates corresponding authorship.

1. A Hierarchical Progressive Perception System for Autonomous Luggage Trolley Collection
   Zhirui Sun, Zhe Zhang, Jieting Zhao, Hanjing Ye, Jiankun Wang$^{\ast}$
   IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2025 [doi]

2. NAMR-RRT: Neural Adaptive Motion Planning for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments
   Zhirui Sun, Bingyi Xia, Peijia Xie, Xiaotian Li, Jiankun Wang$^{\ast}$
   IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2025 [doi]

3. A Systematic Evaluation of Different Indoor Localization Methods in Robotic Autonomous Luggage Trolley Collection at Airports
   Zhirui Sun, Wenhao Chen, Can He, Jiankun Wang$^{\ast}$
   Robotica, 2024 [doi]

4. Autonomous multiple-trolley collection system with nonholonomic robots: Design, control, and implementation
   Peijia Xie$\dagger$, Bingyi Xia$\dagger$, Anjun Hu, Ziqi Zhao, Lingxiao Meng, Zhirui Sun, Xuheng Gao, Jiankun Wang$^{\ast}$, Max Q.-H. Meng$^{\ast}$
   Journal of Field Robotics 2024 [doi]

5. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering spatial fingerprinting decodes the digestion behavior of lysosomes in live single cells
   Fugang Liu, Zhirui Sun, Bingyi Li, Jiaqing Liu, Zhou Chen, Jian Ye$^{\ast}$
   VIEW 2024 [doi]

6. FabricFolding: Learning Efficient Fabric Folding without Expert Demonstrations
   Can He, Lingxiao Meng, Zhirui Sun, Jiankun Wang$^{\ast}$, Max Q.-H. Meng$^{\ast}$
   Robotica, 2024 [doi]

7. Indoor Exploration and Simultaneous Trolley Collection Through Task-Oriented Environment Partitioning
   Junjie Gao, Peijia Xie, Xuheng Gao, Zhirui Sun, Jiankun Wang$^{\ast}$, Max Q.-H. Meng$^{\ast}$
   2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) [doi]

8. Multi-Risk-RRT: An Efficient Motion Planning Algorithm for Robotic Autonomous Luggage Trolley Collection at Airports
   Zhirui Sun$\dagger$, Boshu Lei$\dagger$, Peijia Xie, Fugang Liu, Junjie Gao, Ying Zhang, Jiankun Wang$^{\ast}$
   IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles 2024 [doi]

9. Multi-Tree Guided Efficient Robot Motion Planning
   Zhirui Sun, Jiankun Wang$^{\ast}$, Max Q.-H. Meng$^{\ast}$
   2022 International Symposium on Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics (ISBIR) [doi]

10. The state-of-the-arts of wireless electric vehicle charging via magnetic resonance: principles, standards and core technologies
    Songyan Niu, Haiqi Xu, Zhirui Sun, Z.Y. Shao, Linni Jian$^{\ast}$
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2019 [doi]

🎖 Honors and Awards

• Outstanding Communist Party Member, SUSTech, 2025 and 2021
• Outstanding Student Cadre, SUSTech, 2025
• Outstanding Graduate Student Leader, SUSTech, 2025
• Outstanding Communist Youth League Member, SUSTech, 2022 and 2024
• Bronze Prize in Challenging Cup (individual project), Guangdong Province, 2020
• Outstanding Graduation Thesis, SUSTech, 2019
• Third Prize in Challenging Cup (individual project), Guangdong Province, 2019

📖 Educations and Work Experience

• 2021.09 - 2026.06 (expected), Ph.D. in Electronic Science and Technology, Southern University of Science and Technology (Shenzhen, China)
• 2019.07 - 2021.08, Counsellor in College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (Shenzhen, China)
• 2015.09 - 2019.06, B.Eng. in Information Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (Shenzhen, China)

📚 Professional Activities

Journal Reviews:

• IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
• IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Conference Reviews:

• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
• IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
• International Symposium on Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics (ICBIR)
• International Conference on Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics (ISBIR)

👨‍🏫 Teachings

• 2023.09 - 2024.01, Teaching Assistant, “EEE5058 Robotic Perception and Intelligence”
• 2023.02 - 2023.06, Teaching Assistant, “EEE5058 Foundations of Information Technology”
• 2022.02 - 2022.06, Teaching Assistant, “EEE5062 Methods of Computation”

💻 Internships

• 2022.08 - present, Jiaxing Research Institute Southern University of Science and Technology, Jiaxing, China