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 elected as Chair of IEEE RAS Singapore Chapter.
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Yangang joined as a postdoc research fellow. Welcome onboard!
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We received the Best Paper Award of ITSC 2025, the flagship conference of IEEE ITSS. Cheers!
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Chen is awarded the IROS 2025 New Generation Star Project.
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Yuxin Cai won the 2nd Place at CMU Vision-Language Autonomy Challenge 2025. Congrats!
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Our former phd stduent Zhiyu received the MAE Best Phd Thesis Award 2024. Congratulations!
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Our work was awarded the Global New Energy Vehicles Cutting-edge Technology at World New Energy Vehicle Congress 2025.
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We won the Championship of A2RL 2025 autonomous racing SIM-Sprint Challenge. Cheers!
Research Highlights
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Check out our latest work, led by Songyan on VLM auto driving: OpenREAD!
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Li Lin's paper on VLM-enhanced RL for AVs won ITSC'25 best Paper Award.
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Binbin's work on mutli-robot system got published in TRO.
