Welcome to AutoMan Research Lab @ NTU

AutoMan members, July 2025
(at Zezhong's PhD graduation ceremony)
The Automated Driving and Human-Machine System (AutoMan) Lab @ NTU has a wide range of research activities covering design, control and optimization of human-centric robotics, embodied AI, human-AI hybrid intelligence, and cyber-physical systems, with particular applications to advanced vehicles and multi-modal robotics.

Our AutoMan group is exploring
Scientific automation mechanisms to better understand humans.
Smarter autonomous robotics to guide and assist humans.
Safer automated vehicles to better serve humans.
Smoother automation to interact with humans.
Sustainable automobiles for humans.
These are what AutoMan stands for!

Dr. Chen Lv (吕辰)
Associate Professor
Director, AutoMan Research Lab
Research Director, Vice President Research Office
Director, MSc in Robotics and Intelligent Systems
Thrust Lead in AI, Continental-NTU Corp Lab
Cluster Director in Future Mobility Solutions, ERI@N
E: lyuchen@ntu.edu.sg





Recent AutoMan News
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Chen is appointed Research Director of NTU Vice President Research Office.
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Collister, Zhan, Zhidong, Qihang, Sheng, and Chongtian joined as phd students in Aug 2025. Welcome!
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Wenhui was awarded the Winner of the ITS World Congress 2025 Essay Contest (Asia-Pacific's region). Big congrats!
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Yiran, Haohan, Wenhui, and Tianchu successfully defended their PhD dissertations. Congrats Dr. Zhang, Dr. Yang, Dr. Huang, and Dr. Su!
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Big congrats to Wenhui, Songyan, Collister, Liang Yang on winning the 1st place at the ITSS x LTA Hackathon 2025!
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Wenhui's research has been featured in the PhD in ITS column of the IEEE ITS Magazine.
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Chen is appointed as IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecturer.
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Chen is appointed as Senior Editor of IEEE T-ITS.
Research Highlights
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Baichuan's work on dynamic state estimation for drones was accepted to IROS'25.
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Yiran's work on multi-modal haptic interface was accepted to IEEE T-ITS.
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Li Lin's work on LLM-enhanced decision making was accepted to Expert Systems with Applications.
Useful Resources
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AIMS workshop
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IROS workshop
