



Jelly Jinzhe Liu
PhD Student 2026-2030
Aerial Robotics & Morphological computation
Co-supervised by Dr. Bahadir Kocer and Dr. Rui Wu
My research investigates how morphological computation and structural design can redistribute part of the control and perception workload in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from digital controllers to physical form.
Conventional UAVs rely heavily on high-frequency digital feedback control. Stability, disturbance rejection, and motion regulation are primarily achieved through software algorithms and electronic sensing. While effective, this approach increases control complexity, computational demand, and energy consumption.
This project explores an alternative paradigm: embedding intelligence into the physical structure itself.
