Zinan Yang
Robotics and motion control engineer — the control software between an algorithm and a machine that actually moves.
My background is split across the two halves of that problem: a robotics MSc and a quadruped navigation stack on one side, and four years of industrial servo motion systems on the other.
I am currently an Application Engineer at Siemens in Beijing, working on motion control — SINAMICS S120/S200/V90 drive systems, reusable SCL axis-control libraries covering homing, cam profiles and diagnostics, and the engineering tooling that generates and validates a machine’s control project instead of hand-building it. Before Siemens I built the navigation stack for a quadruped robot at Geely Research Institute — EKF state estimation, A* planning, LiDAR processing, ROS.
I am moving back towards robotics, which is where the MSc and the quadruped work started and where the motion control work has been pointing all along. Industrial servo control and robot motion control are the same discipline in different vocabulary: trajectory generation, closed-loop position control, coordinated multi-axis motion, and the unglamorous business of what the system does when a sensor lies or an axis faults mid-move.
ZH 中文简介：机器人与运动控制工程师，现居北京。 阅读中文版 →
Differential-drive AGV navigation stack
EKF localisation and nav2 autonomy on a differential-drive base, built end to end and rebuilt in public with the current toolchain.
- Sep 2026 Dev environment — WSL2, ROS 2 Jazzy, ros2_control current
- Sep 2026 URDF + ros2_control hardware interface planned
- Oct 2026 EKF wheel-odometry / IMU fusion planned
- Oct–Nov Costmaps + nav2 planner / controller tuning planned
- Nov 2026 Repository public milestone
Previously
- 2022 – now Siemens Ltd., China — Application Engineer. Motion control libraries, drive commissioning, TIA Openness engineering automation.
- 2021 – 22 Geely Research Institute — Robotics Algorithm Engineer. Quadruped navigation: EKF, A*, LiDAR, ROS.
- 2020 – 21 MSc Robotics — King's College London.
- 2018 – 20 Wärtsilä — Shanghai — Product Engineer.
- 2013 – 17 MEng Mechanical Engineering — University of Bristol.
Mandarin (native) · English (fluent) · German (conversational). Based in Beijing, open to relocation. Full CV →
News
- 04 Sep 26 Building a differential-drive AGV navigation stack in ROS 2 Jazzy — EKF localisation and nav2. Repo public in November.
- 20 Aug 26 Working through Modern Robotics alongside a MuJoCo lab — rebuilding the theory spine behind the motion control work.