Yakun Ouyang

I'm currently a Senior Engineer at Baidu Apollo, working on Interactive Decision Making for Apollo GO robotaxis. Before that, I did my M.E. in Mechanical Engineering at Hunan University, under the supervision of Prof. Bai Li, and B.E. in Automation at Nanchang University.

๐Ÿ™ GitHub: yakunouyang
๐ŸŽ“ Google Scholar: Yakun Ouyang
๐Ÿ’Œ Email: yakun [at] hnu.edu.cn

Research

I'm interested in high-performance and differentiable solution methods for robot learning and optimal control.

Fast and Optimal Trajectory Planning for Multiple Vehicles in a Nonconvex and Cluttered Environment: Benchmarks, Methodology, and Experiments

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022

Yakun Ouyang, Bai Li, Tankut Acarman, Yuqing Guo, and Tantan Zhang

Proposed adaptive-scaling constraints for Multi-vehicle Trajectory Planning (MVTP) problems, enabling evaluation of optimal solutions through decoupled iterations, addressing the computational challenge introduced by multiple vehicles.

Autonomous Driving on Curvy Roads Without Reliance on Frenet Frame: A Cartesian-Based Trajectory Planning Method

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2022

Bai Li, Yakun Ouyang, Li Li, Youmin Zhang

Proposed a hierarchical planning approach for on-road autonomous driving, where an Sโ€“Lโ€“T dynamic programming framework generates a series of convex sets, and a lightweight iterative optimization method plans the vehicleโ€™s motion in Cartesian space.

Mixed-integer and Conditional Trajectory Planning for an Autonomous Mining Truck in Loading/Dumping Scenarios: A Global Optimization Approach

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2023

Bai Li, Yakun Ouyang, Li Li, Xiaohui Li, Dongpu Cao, Tantan Zhang, Yaonan Wang

Proposed a coarse-to-fine approach to solve complex mixed-integer nonlinear program for heavy-duty trucks, a search-based method find a near-optimal coarse trajectory satisfying mixed-integer costs and constraints, which is further polished with a small-scale NLP simplified from original mixed-integer problem.

Projects

to be continued...