Dr. Wenzheng CHI

Dr. Wenzheng CHI is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Max Q.-H. Meng.

She received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, advised by Prof. Max Q.-H. Meng in 2017 with Hong Kong Postgraduate Fellowship (HKPFS). She was a visiting student in Precise Engineering at the University of Tokyo, collaborating with Prof. Hajime Asama from Sept. 2015 to Feb. 2016. She received the B.E. degree in Automation from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2013.

Research Interests: Mobile Service Robots, Human-Friendly Motion Planning, Human-Robot Interaction, Artificial Intelligence

Awards:

  • Jan. 2018. "Outstanding Tutor Award", Department of Electronic Engineering, CUHK
  • June. 2016. "Best Student Paper Award", IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR)
  • Aug. 2013 – July 2017. "Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme", Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong
  • July 2015. "Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence", CUHK
  • Dec. 2012. "President Scholarship", Shandong University, China
  • Sept. 2010 - Sept. 2012. "National Scholarship" (3 times), Ministry of Education, China

Publications:

Journal

  1. Wenzheng Chi, Jiaole Wang, and Max Q.-H. Meng. "A Gait Recognition Method for Human Following in Service Robots." IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2017. (Accepted)
  2. Wenzheng Chi, Chaoqun Wang, Jiankun Wang, and Max Q.-H. Meng. "Risk-DTRRT: A Sampling-Based Homotopy Optimal Motion Planning Algorithm for Mobile Service Robots." IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2018. (Under Review)
  3. Chaoqun Wang, Wenzheng Chi, Yuxiang Sun, and Max Q.-H. Meng. "Autonomous Robotic Exploration by Incrementally Road Map Construction." IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2018. (Under Review)
  4. Jiankun Wang, Wenzheng Chi, Mingjie Shao, and Max Q. -H. Meng. "Finding a High-Quality Initial Solution for the RRTs Algorithms in 2D Environments." ROBOTICA, 2018. (Under Review)
  5. Chaoqun Wang, Jiyu Cheng, Wenzheng Chi, and Max Q. -H. Meng. "Informative Planning for Object Search with Semantic Knowledge." Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2018. (Under Review)

Conference

  1. Wenzheng Chi, Hitoshi Kono, Yusuke Tamura, Atsushi Yamashita, Hajime Asama, and Max Q.-H. Meng. "A human-friendly robot navigation algorithm using the risk-RRT approach." In Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR), IEEE International Conference on, pp. 227-232. IEEE, 2016. (Best Student Paper Award)
  2. Wenzheng Chi, Jiankun Wang, and Max Q.-H. Meng. "Risk-Informed-RRT*: An Optimal Sampling-based Human-friendly Motion Planning Algorithm for Mobile Service Robots in Indoor Environments." In Information and Automation (ICIA), 2018 IEEE International Conference on, IEEE, 2018.
  3. Wenzheng Chi, and Max Q.-H. Meng. "A Robot Motion Planning Algorithm in the Human Robot Coexisting Environment." In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, IEEE, 2017.
  4. Wenzheng Chi, and Max Q.-H. Meng. "Risk-RRT∗: A robot motion planning algorithm for the human robot coexisting environment." In Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 2017 18th International Conference on, pp. 583-588. IEEE, 2017.
  5. Wenzheng Chi, Jiaole Wang, and Max Q.-H. Meng. “Person Verification based on Skeleton Biometrics by RGB-D Camera.” In Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2014 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 671-676. IEEE, 2014.
  6. Wenzheng Chi, Wei Zhang, Jason Gu, and Hongliang Ren. "A vision-based mobile robot localization method." In Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2013 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 2703-2708. IEEE, 2013.
  7. Wenzheng Chi, Max Q.-H. Meng, and Xijun Chen. "Robot aided object segmentation based on kinect without prior knowledge." In Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2012 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 1784-1788. IEEE, 2012.
  8. Jiankun Wang, Xintong Li, Wenzheng Chi, and Max Q.-H. Meng. "Tropistic RRT*: An Efficient Planning Algorithm via Adaptive Restricted Sampling Space." In Information and Automation (ICIA), 2018 IEEE International Conference on, IEEE, 2018.
  9. Wenzheng Chi, Jiankun Wang, Chaoqun Wang, and Max Q.-H. Meng. "A Human-Friendly Motion Planning Algorithm for Airport Baggage Trolley Collection Robots." In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, IEEE, 2018. (Under Review)
  10. Jiankun Wang, Wenzheng Chi, and Max Q.-H. Meng. "Real-Time Decision Making and Motion Planning with Applications to Robotic Autonomous Luggage Trolley Collection at Airports." In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, IEEE, 2018. (Under Review)
  11. Jiyu Cheng, Yuxiang Sun, Wenzheng Chi, Chaoqun Wang, and Max Q.-H. Meng. "An Accurate Localization Scheme for Mobile Robots Using Optical Flow in Dynamic Environments." In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, IEEE, 2018. (Under Review)

Teaching Experience:

  • Jan. 2017 - April 2017. Teaching Assistant of BMEG3420 Biomedical Robotics (Outstanding Tutor Award)
  • Sept. 2016 - Dec. 2016. Teaching Assistant of BMEG4103 Biomedical Modeling (Outstanding Tutor Award)
  • Jan. 2015 - April 2015. Teaching Assistant of BMEG3420 Biomedical Robotics
  • Sept. 2014 - Dec. 2014. Teaching Assistant of BMEG2210 Orthopaedic Biomechanics and Musculoskeletal Injury
  • Jan. 2014 - April 2014. Teaching Assistant of BMEG4103 Biomedical Modeling
  • Sept. 2013 - Dec. 2013. Teaching Assistant of BMEG2210 Orthopaedic Biomechanics and Musculoskeletal Injury

Contact:

Tel: (852) 3943 8290

Email: wzchi[at]cuhk.edu.hk

Office: Room 432, Ho Sin Hang Engineering Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong