Sitong Zhang

Hi! I am Sitong Zhang (张思桐), now a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, supervised by Prof. Bo Zhao.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the CityU-Oxford Joint Centre for Intelligent Multidimensional Data Analysis (CIMDA) Limited (Hong Kong), supervised by Prof. Hong Yan. During this time, I developed an AI-enabled indoor positioning app to improve indoor navigation efficiency.

Before that, I received my PhD degree (Dec. 2023) and Bachelor’s degree (Jun. 2018) from the Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, supervised by Prof. Yibing Li. My doctoral research focused on optimizing real-time obstacle avoidance and long-distance trajectory planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) based on Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL).

Selected Publications

Autonomous navigation of UAV in multi-obstacle environments based on a deep reinforcement learning approach

Sitong Zhang, Yibing Li, and Qianhui Dong

Applied Soft Computing, 2022

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@article{zhang2022autonomous,
  title = {Autonomous navigation of UAV in multi-obstacle environments based on a deep reinforcement learning approach},
  author = {Zhang, Sitong and Li, Yibing and Dong, Qianhui},
  journal = {Applied Soft Computing},
  volume = {115},
  pages = {108194},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
}

A hybrid human-in-the-loop deep reinforcement learning method for UAV motion planning for long trajectories with unpredictable obstacles

Sitong Zhang, Yibing Li, Fang Ye, Xiaoyu Geng, Zitao Zhou, Tuo Shi

Drones, 2023

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@article{zhang2023hybrid,
  title = {A hybrid human-in-the-loop deep reinforcement learning method for UAV motion planning for long trajectories with unpredictable obstacles},
  author = {Zhang, Sitong and Li, Yibing and Ye, Fang and Geng, Xiaoyu and Zhou, Zitao and Shi, Tuo},
  journal = {Drones},
  volume = {7},
  number = {5},
  pages = {311},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {MDPI},
}

QoS maximization scheduling of multiple UAV base stations in 3D environment

Sitong Zhang, Yibing Li, Qian Sun, Fang Ye

Internet of Things, 2023

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@article{zhang2023qos,
  title = {QoS maximization scheduling of multiple UAV base stations in 3D environment},
  author = {Zhang, Sitong and Li, Yibing and Sun, Qian and Ye, Fang},
  journal = {Internet of Things},
  volume = {22},
  pages = {100726},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
}

Dynamic redeployment of UAV base stations in large-scale and unreliable environments

Sitong Zhang, Yibing Li, Yuan Tian, Zitao Zhou, Xiaoyu Geng, Tuo Shi

Internet of Things, 2023

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@article{zhang2023dynamic,
  title = {Dynamic redeployment of UAV base stations in large-scale and unreliable environments},
  author = {Zhang, Sitong and Li, Yibing and Tian, Yuan and Zhou, Zitao and Geng, Xiaoyu and Shi, Tuo},
  journal = {Internet of Things},
  volume = {24},
  pages = {100985},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
}

A UAV path planning method based on deep reinforcement learning

Yibing Li, Sitong Zhang, Fang Ye, Tao Jiang, Yingsong Li

In 2020 IEEE USNC-CNC-URSI North American Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium), 2020

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@inproceedings{li2020uav,
  title = {A UAV path planning method based on deep reinforcement learning},
  author = {Li, Yibing and Zhang, Sitong and Ye, Fang and Jiang, Tao and Li, Yingsong},
  booktitle = {2020 IEEE USNC-CNC-URSI North American Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium)},
  pages = {93--94},
  year = {2020},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

Multi-UAV cooperative mission assignment algorithm based on ACO method

Yibing Li, Sitong Zhang, Jie Chen, Tao Jiang, Fang Ye

In 2020 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 2020

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@inproceedings{li2020multi,
  title = {Multi-UAV cooperative mission assignment algorithm based on ACO method},
  author = {Li, Yibing and Zhang, Sitong and Chen, Jie and Jiang, Tao and Ye, Fang},
  booktitle = {2020 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)},
  pages = {304--308},
  year = {2020},
  organization = {IEEE},
}