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Robotics and motion control — experience, education and skills.

Contact Information

Name Zinan Yang
Professional Title Robotics and Motion Control Engineer
Email nanyoung521@gmail.com

Professional Summary

Robotics and motion control engineer. Quadruped motion control, industrial servo motion systems, and the control software between an algorithm and a moving machine. MSc Robotics (KCL), BEng Mechanical Engineering (Bristol).

Experience

  • 2022 - present

    Beijing, China

    Application Engineer — Digital Industries
    Siemens Ltd., China
    Motion control and engineering automation for production machinery.
    • Reusable SCL motion control libraries — axis control, homing, cam profiles, diagnostics — across SINAMICS S120, S200 and V90 drive systems
    • TIA Openness tooling generating and validating control projects programmatically, including PLC↔HMI tag handoff and consistency checking
    • WinCC Unified HMI engineering: screen design, Openness export/import tooling, runtime scripting, faceplates
    • PLCSIM Advanced test rigs for verifying control logic before hardware exists
    • Customer-facing consulting — requirements analysis, solution architecture, demos, pre-commissioning design reviews, training
  • 2022 - 2022

    China

    Robotics Intern — Motion Control
    Geely Research Institute
    YoboGo quadruped motion control using an MIT Mini Cheetah-derived stack on an Up Board.
    • Motion-control integration and Up Board Linux bring-up with the existing C++ stack
    • LCM-based command, state and logging interfaces
    • Worked alongside colleagues responsible for Jetson-side SLAM and LiDAR
  • 2018 - 2020

    Shanghai, China

    Product Engineer
    Wärtsilä
    Product engineering for marine power systems.

Education

  • 2020 - 2021

    London, United Kingdom

    MSc
    King's College London
    Robotics
    • Robotics specialisation: kinematics, state estimation, planning and control
  • 2013 - 2017

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    MEng
    University of Bristol
    Mechanical Engineering
    • Final-year project: driver-assistance system design and evaluation

Projects

Skills

Robotics (Working): ROS 2 / ROS, nav2, ros2_control, EKF and sensor fusion, SLAM and localisation, path planning, MuJoCo, Isaac Sim
Motion control (Expert): SIMATIC S7-1500T technology objects, SINAMICS S120 / S200 / V90, SIMOTICS S-1FL6, trajectory generation, cam synchronisation, homing, servo commissioning and tuning
Programming (Working): SCL (structured text), Python, C++, C#, PowerShell, MySQL
Engineering automation (Expert): TIA Portal Openness, WinCC Unified, PLCSIM Advanced, TIA Portal VCI, virtual commissioning, static analysis of SCL and SimaticML

Languages

Mandarin Chinese : Native
English : Fluent
German : Conversational