Wen-Hui Tang

Industrial Technology Research Institute

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Wen-Hui Tang is a researcher whose work centers on mobile robotics, with a particular focus on environment perception, sensor fusion, and autonomous navigation. Tang's most notable contribution lies in the development of multi-sensor systems that enable mobile robots to interpret and navigate uncertain or unknown environments more effectively. By combining double ultrasonic sensors with CCD camera input, Tang pioneered approaches to constructing accurate environmental representations — a critical foundation for both path planning and robot self-localization. This integration of complementary sensing modalities addressed a fundamental challenge in robotics: how to reliably model the external world when individual sensors alone prove insufficient. Tang's 1996 paper on environment perception remains the cornerstone of this body of work, accumulating 69 citations and demonstrating lasting influence within the robotics research community. A subsequent 2002 publication extended these ideas into environment recognition, further refining the framework developed in the earlier work. Together, these contributions reflect a sustained commitment to solving practical autonomous navigation problems through intelligent sensor fusion. Tang's research continues to serve as a reference point for scholars working at the intersection of mobile robotics, computer vision, and sensor-based localization systems.