Han Ruihua

I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Hong Kong, under the supervision of Prof. Jia Pan (HKU) and Prof. Qi Hao (SUSTech).
My research lies at the intersection of motion planning, machine learning, and optimal control. I am driven by the goal of enabling robots to navigate and operate intelligently and robustly in challenging environments, with theoretical guarantees that support the execution of complex real-world tasks—tasks that are often comparable to those performed by humans.
In addition to my research activities, I actively contribute to the robotics community by developing and sharing open-source projects, which have received over 900 stars. Notable repositories include: rl_rvo_nav, RDA_planner, rda_ros, and ir-sim.

Selected Publications

T-RO

NeuPAN: Direct Point Robot Navigation with End-to-End Model-based Learning

Ruihua Han , Shuai Wang , Shuaijun Wang , Zeqing Zhang , Jianjun Chen , Shijie Lin , Chengyang Li , Chengzhong Xu , Yonina C Eldar , Qi Hao , and Jia Pan

Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2025

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@article{han2024neupan,
  title = {NeuPAN: Direct Point Robot Navigation with End-to-End Model-based Learning},
  author = {Han, Ruihua and Wang, Shuai and Wang, Shuaijun and Zhang, Zeqing and Chen, Jianjun and Lin, Shijie and Li, Chengyang and Xu, Chengzhong and Eldar, Yonina C and Hao, Qi and Pan, Jia},
  journal = {Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
  year = {2025},
}

RA-L

Rda: An accelerated collision free motion planner for autonomous navigation in cluttered environments

Ruihua Han , Shuai Wang , Shuaijun Wang , Zeqing Zhang , Qianru Zhang , Yonina C Eldar , Qi Hao , and Jia Pan

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2023

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@article{han2023rda,
  title = {Rda: An accelerated collision free motion planner for autonomous navigation in cluttered environments},
  author = {Han, Ruihua and Wang, Shuai and Wang, Shuaijun and Zhang, Zeqing and Zhang, Qianru and Eldar, Yonina C and Hao, Qi and Pan, Jia},
  journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)},
  volume = {8},
  number = {3},
  pages = {1715--1722},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

RA-L

Reinforcement learned distributed multi-robot navigation with reciprocal velocity obstacle shaped rewards

Ruihua Han , Shengduo Chen , Shuaijun Wang , Zeqing Zhang , Rui Gao , Qi Hao , and Jia Pan

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022

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@article{han2022reinforcement,
  title = {Reinforcement learned distributed multi-robot navigation with reciprocal velocity obstacle shaped rewards},
  author = {Han, Ruihua and Chen, Shengduo and Wang, Shuaijun and Zhang, Zeqing and Gao, Rui and Hao, Qi and Pan, Jia},
  journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
  volume = {7},
  number = {3},
  pages = {5896--5903},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

ICRA

Cooperative multi-robot navigation in dynamic environment with deep reinforcement learning

Ruihua Han , Shengduo Chen , and Qi Hao

In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , 2020

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@inproceedings{han2020cooperative,
  title = {Cooperative multi-robot navigation in dynamic environment with deep reinforcement learning},
  author = {Han, Ruihua and Chen, Shengduo and Hao, Qi},
  booktitle = {2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  pages = {448--454},
  year = {2020},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

IROS

A distributed range-only collision avoidance approach for low-cost large-scale multi-robot systems

Ruihua Han , Shengduo Chen , and Qi Hao

In 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) , 2020

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@inproceedings{han2020distributed,
  title = {A distributed range-only collision avoidance approach for low-cost large-scale multi-robot systems},
  author = {Han, Ruihua and Chen, Shengduo and Hao, Qi},
  booktitle = {2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  pages = {8020--8026},
  year = {2020},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

Service

Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO); IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L); IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA); IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS); American Control Conference (ACC).