Papers
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Total Citations
39
H-Index
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About
Jianying Zheng is a leading researcher in autonomous mobile robotics, with a primary focus on multi-robot coordination, path planning, and exploration in unknown environments. Her work bridges fundamental algorithms and practical deployment, addressing challenges from complete coverage to pursuit-evasion scenarios. Her most influential paper, "Multi-robot Path Planning for Complete Coverage with Genetic Algorithms" (2019, 17 citations), introduces an evolutionary approach to efficiently coordinate robot teams for exhaustive area coverage, a critical capability for applications like search-and-rescue and precision agriculture. Zheng has also made significant contributions to autonomous exploration, pioneering a 3D wavefront algorithm that enables robots to intelligently map indoor spaces using RGB-D cameras. Earlier in her career, she tackled the complex dynamics of multi-robot pursuit, developing probabilistic and distributed strategies for tracking mobile evaders under limited communication constraints. Her work is characterized by a focus on optimality and scalability, as seen in her distributed motion coordination algorithm. With a career spanning over a decade, Zheng’s research has accumulated over 39 citations, demonstrating her sustained impact on the fields of multi-agent systems and autonomous navigation.
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Top Papers
- 1Multi-robot Path Planning for Complete Coverage with Genetic Algorithms17 citations · 2019
- 2Autonomous Indoor Mobile Robot Exploration Based on Wavefront Algorithm7 citations · 2019
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