Lyu Qiyang

Lyu Qiyang

PhD Student

Nanyang Technological University

About

Researcher and engineer with core expertise in autonomous robot perception and localization, multi-modal sensor calibration and fusion. Hands-on experience in deep learning-based robot perception system.

Currently I am a Ph.D. student at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, advised by Prof. Wang Dan Wei. Prior to this, I obtained a M.Sc. degree in Computer, Control and Automation from Nanyang Technological University; and B.E. degree with First Class Honours from the joint program between the University of Glasgow and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

Featured Projects

Sensing the Invisible: Ambient Magnetic-field Based Localization for Autonomous Robot preview

Robotics / Localization

Localize the robot with a novel modality in challenging environements.

CalibrationLocalizationMappingProductization
Sentosa Passenger Counting System preview

Computer Vision / Target Detection

A RGBD-based system for real-time passenger counting and seat occupancy detection on Sentosa open-air trams.

Detection5GMEC
Fuse from Distance: Long-baseline Calibration for Multiple LiDAR Sensors preview

Robotics / Calibration

A calibration framework for long-baseline multi-LiDAR systems to accurately align distant sensors in V2X traffic scenarios.

CalibrationV2X

Selected Publications

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UniLGL: Learning Uniform Place Recognition for FOV-Limited/Panoramic LiDAR Global Localization

Hongming Shen, Xun Chen, Yulin Hui, Zhenyu Wu, Wei Wang, Qiyang Lyu, Tianchen Deng, Danwei Wang

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

L2M-Calib: One-Key Calibration Method for LiDAR and Multiple Magnetic Sensors

Qiyang Lyu, Wei Wang, Zhenyu Wu, Hongming Shen, Huiqin Zhou, Danwei Wang

2025 IEEE 28th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)

IR-MFGL: Image-Represented Magnetic Field Global Localization in Repetitive Environments

Hongming Shen, Shibo Yang, Xun Chen, Zhenyu Wu, Qiyang Lyu, Wei Wang, Huiqin Zhou, Danwei Wang

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

S-GPR: Sliding Gaussian Process Regression-based Magnetic Mapping and Evaluation of Different Magnetic Mapping Methods

Qiyang Lyu, Zhenyu Wu, Hongming Shen, Wei Wang, Jun Zhang, Huiqin Zhou, Danwei Wang

IECON 2024 - 50th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

LB-L2L-Calib: Accurate and Robust Extrinsic Calibration for Multiple 3D LiDARs with Long Baseline and Large Viewpoint Difference

Jun Zhang, Qiyang Lyu, Guohao Peng, Zhenyu Wu, Qiao Yan, Danwei Wang

2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Projects

A collection of projects I have done.

Sensing the Invisible: Ambient Magnetic-field Based Localization for Autonomous Robot preview

Robotics / Localization

Localize the robot with a novel modality in challenging environements.

CalibrationLocalizationMappingProductization
Sentosa Passenger Counting System preview

Computer Vision / Target Detection

A RGBD-based system for real-time passenger counting and seat occupancy detection on Sentosa open-air trams.

Detection5GMEC
Fuse from Distance: Long-baseline Calibration for Multiple LiDAR Sensors preview

Robotics / Calibration

A calibration framework for long-baseline multi-LiDAR systems to accurately align distant sensors in V2X traffic scenarios.

CalibrationV2X

Publications

A collection of my research work.

Preprints

arXiv preprint

2026

RoSLAC: Robust Simultaneous Localization and Calibration of Multiple Magnetometers

Qiyang Lyu, Zhenyu Wu, Wei Wang, Hongming Shen, Danwei Wang

arXiv preprint

2026

MIL-LC: A Robust Magnetometer-Inertial-LiDAR Fusion Multimodal Localization Framework

Qiyang Lyu, Zhenyu Wu, Wei Wang, Hongming Shen, Danwei Wang

Journal Articles

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

2026

UniLGL: Learning Uniform Place Recognition for FOV-Limited/Panoramic LiDAR Global Localization

Hongming Shen, Xun Chen, Yulin Hui, Zhenyu Wu, Wei Wang, Qiyang Lyu, Tianchen Deng, Danwei Wang

DOICode

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

2026

MC-Mapping: Magnetic-Aware Collaborative Mapping in Perceptually Degraded Environments

Zhenyu Wu, Wei Wang, Hongming Shen, Qiyang Lyu, Tianchen Deng, Guohao Peng, Huiqin Zhou, Danwei Wang

DOI

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

2025

IR-MFGL: Image-Represented Magnetic Field Global Localization in Repetitive Environments

Hongming Shen, Shibo Yang, Xun Chen, Zhenyu Wu, Qiyang Lyu, Wei Wang, Huiqin Zhou, Danwei Wang

DOI

IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics

2025

CTE-MLO: Continuous-Time and Efficient Multi-LiDAR Odometry With Localizability-Aware Point Cloud Sampling

Hongming Shen, Zhenyu Wu, Yulin Hui, Wei Wang, Qiyang Lyu, Tianchen Deng, Yeqing Zhu, Bailing Tian, Danwei Wang

DOICode

Conference Papers

2025 IEEE 28th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)

2025

L2M-Calib: One-Key Calibration Method for LiDAR and Multiple Magnetic Sensors

Qiyang Lyu, Wei Wang, Zhenyu Wu, Hongming Shen, Huiqin Zhou, Danwei Wang

DOI

2025 IEEE 28th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)

2025

C3M: Collaborative Magnetic-Aware Map-Merging for Intelligent Vehicles in Degraded Environments

Zhenyu Wu, Wei Wang, Hongming Shen, Qiyang Lyu, Mingxing Wen, Guohao Peng, Danwei Wang

DOI

IECON 2024 - 50th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

2024

S-GPR: Sliding Gaussian Process Regression-based Magnetic Mapping and Evaluation of Different Magnetic Mapping Methods

Qiyang Lyu, Zhenyu Wu, Hongming Shen, Wei Wang, Jun Zhang, Huiqin Zhou, Danwei Wang

DOI

2024 18th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)

2024

CT-MLO: Voxel-Based Multi-LiDAR Odometry Using Continuous-Time Kalman Filter

Hongming Shen, Zhenyu Wu, Wei Wang, Qiyang Lyu, Huiqin Zhou, Yeqing Zhu

DOI

2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

2024

IDF-MFL: Infrastructure-free and Drift-free Magnetic Field Localization for Mobile Robot

Hongming Shen, Zhenyu Wu, Wei Wang, Qiyang Lyu, Huiqin Zhou, Danwei Wang

DOI

2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

2024

LB-R2R-Calib: Accurate and Robust Extrinsic Calibration of Multiple Long Baseline 4D Imaging Radars for V2X

Jun Zhang, Zihan Yang, Fangwei Zhang, Zhenyu Wu, Guohao Peng, Yiyao Liu, Qiyang Lyu, Mingxing Wen, Danwei Wang

DOI

2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

2023

LB-L2L-Calib 2.0: A Novel Online Extrinsic Calibration Method for Multiple Long Baseline 3D LiDARs Using Objects

Jun Zhang, Qiao Yan, Mingxing Wen, Qiyang Lyu, Guohao Peng, Zhenyu Wu, Danwei Wang

DOI

2023 IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)

2023

NTU4DRadLM: 4D Radar-Centric Multi-Modal Dataset for Localization and Mapping

Jun Zhang, Huayang Zhuge, Yiyao Liu, Guohao Peng, Zhenyu Wu, Haoyuan Zhang, Qiyang Lyu, Heshan Li, Chunyang Zhao, Dogan Kircali, Sanat Mharolkar, Xun Yang, Su Yi, Yuanzhe Wang, Danwei Wang

DOI

2023 IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS) and IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM)

2023

APC: Automatic Passenger Counting and Seat Occupancy Detection for Sightseeing Tram based on 3D LiDAR and Camera

Yiyao Liu, Qiyang Lyu, Jun Zhang, Xudong Suo, Chaoyu Hong, Lin Lin, Danwei Wang

DOI

2023 IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS) and IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM)

2023

Magnetic Field-Aided Global Localization in Repetitive Environments

Zhenyu Wu, Wei Wang, Haoyuan Zhang, Jun Zhang, Qiyang Lyu, Danwei Wang

DOI

2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

2023

Global Localization in Repetitive and Ambiguous Environments

Zhenyu Wu, Wei Wang, Jun Zhang, Qiyang Lyu, Haoyuan Zhang, Danwei Wang

DOI

2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

2022

LB-L2L-Calib: Accurate and Robust Extrinsic Calibration for Multiple 3D LiDARs with Long Baseline and Large Viewpoint Difference

Jun Zhang, Qiyang Lyu, Guohao Peng, Zhenyu Wu, Qiao Yan, Danwei Wang

DOI

CV

Education

Nanyang Technological University, PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2022 - Present

  • Research focus: magnetic perception, autonomous robot localization, sensor calibration

Nanyang Technological University, MSc in Computer Control and Automation, 2020 - 2021

  • Research focus: sensor calibration

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, BEng in Electronic Information and Engineering, 2016 - 2020

  • Graduated with First Class Honours

Experience

Research Associate Nanyang Technological University 2021 - 2026

  • Developed robot perception and localization systems for magnetic-field localization, multi-LiDAR calibration, and 3D LiDAR/RGB passenger counting.
  • Applied Python, C++, MATLAB, ROS, sensor fusion, point-cloud processing, and optimization to support publications, demos, and MagLoc productization.

Skills

  • Programming: Python, C++, MATLAB, LaTeX
  • Data Analysis: NumPy, SciPy
  • Languages: Chinese (Native), English (Fluent)

Awards & Honors

  • Bronze Prize in The “Chunhui Cup” Oversea Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition - MOE and MOST of China (2024)