Hi, I'm Steven 👋
📍York, London, Shanghai, Shenzhen
I am an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of York, where I lead the ReFlex Lab (Real-Time and Flexible Cyber-Physical Systems Lab). I'm based in the beautiful, medieval city of York, United Kingdom.
I build real-time systems by day and robots by night --- and open-source everything. With over a decade of R&D experience in real-time, embedded and cyber-physical systems, I'm passionate about exploring how systems engineering, embedded systems, AI and robotics can shape a better future. I'm a researcher, a blogger and a full-stack developer in robotics and embedded systems. I am also the founder of YFRL (YF Robotics Laboratory), which is an open-source, knowledge-sharing robotics community.
To know more about my research, please visit my academic homepage. You can also contact me on LinkedIn, X (Twitter), Zhihu or by email: automatic.dai (at) gmail.com.
Research
- Real-Time Embedded Systems Design and Timing Analysis --- Real-Time Systems Research Group, York (#1 in the UK)
- Adaptive and Flexible Task Scheduling for Safety-Critical Systems --- Innovate UK SCHEME Project (with Rolls-Royce)
- Modelling and Scheduling of Heterogeneous Multi-Core Architecture --- MOCHA Project (with Huawei)
- Humanoid Robot and Digital Twins for Virtual Production --- RAVEN Project (with Unitree)
- Multi-robot Scheduling and Task Allocation --- Scaling robots for logistics and warehouses
I am actively looking for UK partners in autonomous driving/robotics and tech-driven creativity industries. Feel free to talk with me for collaboration!
Services
- Embedded CV & AI --- YFStudio --- Provide low-cost and high-quality embedded CV and AI solutions
- Self-driving and autonomous vehicles --- Consultancy on policy, regulation, research and development
Project Highlights
- dag-gen-rnd - A randomised Multi-DAG task generator for scheduling and allocation research
- dag-scheduling-analysis - DAG Scheduling and Analysis on Multiprocessor Systems: Exploitation of Parallelism and Dependency
- research-sched-tsn - Fixed-Priority Scheduling and Controller Co-Design for Time-Sensitive Network
- MRWS_MultiRobot_Warehouse_Scheduling - MRWS: MultiRobot Warehouse Scheduling Framework
- URDFLex - URDFlex: A flexible web-based URDF viewer and editor
- rpi-object-detection - Real-time object detection and tracking with Raspberry Pi and OpenCV!
- rpi-environmental-sensing - An open-source domestic environment sensing system built with Raspberry Pi
- guinea-pig-monitor - A real-time guinea pig behaviour monitoring system using YOLO, ByteTrack, and optical flow analysis
- yfips-indoor-positioning-system - YF-IPS: use low-cost sensors for multi-robot indoor positioning, tracking and navigation.