Xingkang He

University of Notre Dame, Ericsson (Sweden)

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Xingkang He is a robotics researcher specializing in state estimation, sensor fusion, and autonomous navigation for mobile robots. His work addresses critical challenges in robot localization and control under real-world constraints, particularly when dealing with wheel slip and distributed sensing. He developed a robust slip-aware speed estimation framework that fuses proprioceptive sensor data to maintain accurate state estimates during mobile robot navigation, experimentally verifying its consistency and ability to bound estimation errors. This contribution has garnered 6 citations and provides a foundation for more reliable robot control in slippery or uneven terrains. He has also advanced multi-robot coordination by proposing a method for navigating a mobile robot using switching distributed sensor networks, enabling a robot to sequentially accomplish tasks by entering and staying within target sets under resource constraints. This work, with 3 citations, demonstrates his ability to integrate estimation theory with task-driven control. He’s notable for bridging theoretical rigor—such as observer consistency proofs—with practical experimental validation, making his research directly applicable to field robotics.