📍York <—> London <—> Shenzhen

I am an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of York, where I lead the Real-Time and Flexible Cyber-Physical Systems Lab (ReFlex 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 YF Robotics Laboratory (YFRL), which is an open-source, knowledge-sharing robotics community.

To learn more about my research, please visit my academic homepage. You can also contact me on LinkedIn, Zhihu or by email: automatic.dai (at) gmail.com.

• 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 UK)
• Modelling and Scheduling of Heterogeneous Multi-Core Architecture — MOCHA Project (with Huawei)
• Humanoid Robot and Digital Twins for Virtual Production — RAVEN Project (with Unitree, Nvidia and XR Stories)
• 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 reach out to discuss collaboration.

• 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

• dag-gen-rnd: A randomised Multi-DAG task generator for scheduling and allocation research
• dag-sched: A simulation framework for evaluating and exploring DAG scheduling algorithms
• 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
• MoCapStudio: Low-cost markless motion capturing with multiple camears
• yfips-indoor-positioning-system: YF-IPS: uses low-cost sensors for multi-robot indoor positioning, tracking and navigation
• yf-smart-home-iot; IoT system for smart home and home automation
• URDFLex: URDFlex: A flexible web-based URDF viewer and editor
• RoboWebGL: Interactive 3D robot arm simulation in the browser with Three.js and WebGL, supporting forward and inverse kinematics
• aitop: A terminal-based interface to show all your coding AI stats and usages
• hdf5-cli: A command-line interface for HDF5 files
• GoogleScholarInsights: Provides powerful insights into academic publication metrics, venue rankings, and research trends
• 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