Tong LI
Tong Li Ph.D. Student (2023–Present)
Multi-Robot Systems; Aerial Manipulation
My research focuses on cooperative control of multi-robot systems, motion planning for aerial manipulators, dynamic aerial grasping, and cooperative aerial transportation. I am particularly interested in decision-making, planning, and control methods for aerial robots operating in complex logistics environments.
Fig. 1. Aerial manipulation for autonomous logistics operations.
[1] Tong Li, Yuanzhe Cui, Lingchong Gao, Wenkai Zhang, Johannes Fottner, and Qirong Tang. Sensorless Contact Detection and Compliant Control for Dynamic Aerial Grasping. Nonlinear Dynamics, 114:948, 2026.
[2] Tong Li, Yuanzhe Cui, Lingchong Gao, Johannes Fottner, and Qirong Tang. Manifold-Aware Spatio-Temporal Planning for Aerial Pick-and-Place via Discrete Right-Trivialized Hamiltonian Dynamics. Submitted to IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2027.
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Dynamic Aerial Grasping with Compliant Control
Video 1. Experimental demonstration of compliant aerial grasping using an aerial manipulator.
Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Pick-and-Place
Video 2. Experimental validation of manifold-aware trajectory planning for autonomous aerial pick-and-place operations.
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