Zhidong Wang
Papers
7
Total Citations
299
H-Index
6
About
Zhidong Wang is a robotics researcher whose career spans over three decades, with core expertise in multi-robot coordination, mobile manipulation, and autonomous systems. His most influential work centers on decentralized control frameworks for cooperative object transportation, where he pioneered the concept of virtual 3-D caster dynamics — an elegant control paradigm that enables multiple mobile manipulators to collaboratively handle objects alongside human operators without centralized coordination. His 2004 papers on this topic, accumulating over 70 citations combined, established foundational leader-follower architectures that remain relevant to human-robot collaboration research. Wang's interests extend into space robotics, where he investigated the manipulation of large-scale objects — such as space stations and solar satellites — using vehicle-type robots, addressing challenges that conventional single-arm space robot studies had overlooked. His 2012 contribution to the IEEE ICRA proceedings garnered nearly 200 citations, reflecting his active role in shaping the robotics research community at its premier conference. More recently, Wang has turned his attention to practical localization challenges, proposing low-cost multi-sensor fusion methods for centimeter-level indoor 3D positioning of wheeled robots, demonstrating a sustained commitment to bridging theoretical control with real-world autonomous navigation.
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Top Papers
- 1The 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2011)195 citations · 2012
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- 5Huge object manipulation in space by vehicles8 citations · 2002
- 6Huge-Object Manipulation in Space by Vehicle-Type Robots6 citations · 1995
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