We are looking for self-motivated staffs and postdocs in Robotics. Please send an email to Prof. Ren if you are interested in joining us.
欢迎热爱机器人的同学和博士后加入我们，有兴趣请发送邮件给任教授。（对于希望保研的同学，因为申请邮件太多，如果没有收到回复，请默认婉拒。）
About Us (简介)
We are part of the Global College at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU).
We research Robotics, Autonomy and Planning, with the focus on fundamental motion planning and path planning problems for single and multiple robots in dynamic, interactive and unknown environments. We leverage and advance the frontier of combinatorial search, optimal control and mixed integer programming approaches. The problems we addressed are often NP-hard, and our research exploits the underlying structure of these problems to develop algorithms that balance between runtime efficiency and solution quality with rigorous guarantees, while being deployable to physical robots. These problems arise in warehouse logistics, manufacturing and search-and-rescue.
我们研究机器人学，自主系统，智能规划，尤其关注单机器人和多机器人中的运动规划和路径规划问题。 我们的研究利用组合搜索，最优控制，混合整数规划等方法，同时推动这些方法的发展。 我们研究的问题在计算复杂度上往往是NP-hard问题。我们的研究利用这些问题中的结构来设计算法，平衡计算速度和求解质量，提供严格的理论保证，并最终部署在实体机器人上。 我们研究的问题广泛存在于仓储物流，智慧生产，搜索救援等应用中。
Selected Publications
- [2026-TRO] Ergodic Trajectory Planning with Dynamic Sensor Footprints.
- [2026-TRO] Parallel, Asymptotically Optimal Algorithms for Moving Target Traveling Salesman Problems.
- [2025-TRO] C*: A New Bounding Approach for the Moving-Target Traveling Salesman Problem.
- [2025-IJRR] Imperative Learning: A Self-supervised Neuro-Symbolic Learning Framework for Robot Autonomy.
- [2025-AIJ] EMOA*: A framework for search-based multi-objective path planning.
- [2023-SR] Representation granularity enables time-efficient autonomous exploration in large, complex worlds.
- [2023-TRO] CBSS: A New Approach for Multiagent Combinatorial Path Finding.
- [2023-TRO] A Pareto-Optimal Local Optimization Framework for Multiobjective Ergodic Search.
News
- [2026.08] A paper is accepted to TRO. Congratulations to Ziyue!
- [2026.08] Our paper wins the IEEE CASE Peter Luh Memorial Best Paper Award for Young Researcher.
- [2026.08] Prof. Ren is invited to serve as a Senior Program Committee (SPC) for AAAI-2026.
- [2026.08] A paper is accepted to TITS. Congratulations to Jiaxian!
- [2026.08] Over the past few months, several papers accepted to AAMAS-2026, IROS-2026, SOCS-2026, WAFR-2026, CASE-2026, ISRR-2026.
- [2026.07] Prof. Ren joins the editorial board of IEEE TRO as an associate editor.
- [2026.05] A paper is accepted to RSS-2026. Congratulations to Miaomiao!
- [2025.12] Prof. Ren joins the editorial board of Autonomous Robots journal as an associate editor.
- [2025.10] A paper is accepted to RAL.
- [2025.10] A paper is accepted to MRS-2025.
- [2025.7] Three papers paper1 paper2 paper3 are accepted to IROS-2025.
- [2025.6] A paper on Moving Target Traveling Salesman Problem is accepted to T-RO.
- [2025.6] A paper on Neuro-Symbolic Approach is accepted to IJRR.
