Publications

Journal publications

Z. Zhang, S.T. Mayberry, W. Wu, and F. Zhang, "Distributed Cooperative Kalman Filter Constrained by Advection-diffusion Equation for Mobile Sensor Networks", Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 10, 1175418, 2023.
J. You, Z, Zhang, F. Zhang, and W. Wu, "Cooperative Filtering and Parameter Identification for Advection-Diffusion Processes Using a Mobile Sensor Network", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 31 (2), 527 - 542, 2022.
K. Wang, W. Xie, W. Wu, J. Pei, and Q. Zhou, "Blockchain-Enabled IoT Platform for Industrial Hemp Supply Chain", Journal of Blockchain Research, 1 (1), 1 - 17, 2022.
W. Wu, Y. Zhang, J. You, and M. Li, "Parameter Identification of Spatial-Temporal Varying Processes by a Multi-Robot System in Realistic Diffusion Fields", Robotica, 39(5), 842-861S, 2021.
S. Al-Abri, W. Wu, F. Zhang, “A Gradient-Free 3-dimensional Source Seeking Strategy with Robustness Analysis”, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 64(8), 3439 - 3446, 2019.
J. You and W. Wu, “Online Passive Identifier of Spatially Distributed Systems Using Mobile Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 25(6), 2151 - 2159, 2017.
D. Chang, W. Wu, C. R. Edwards, and F. Zhang, “Motion Tomography: A Tomographic Approach to Flow Modeling Using Mobile Sensor Networks”, International Journal of Robotics Research, 36(3), 320 - 336, 2017.
J. You and W. Wu, “Cooperative Identiﬁcation of Advection-Diﬀusion Processes with Spatially Varying Coeﬃcients based on a Multi-model Structure”, Cyber Physical Systems, Taylor & Francis, 3(1-4), 103-120, 2017.
W. Wu and F. Zhang, “A Speeding-up and Slowing-down Strategy for Distributed Source Seeking with Robustness Analysis”, IEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems, 3(3), 231-240, 2016.
W. Wu and F. Zhang, “A Switching Strategy for Target Tracking by Mobile Sensing Agents,” Journal of Communications, 8(1), 47-54, 2013.
W. Wu and F. Zhang, “Robust Cooperative Exploration with a Switching Strategy,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 28(4), 828-839, 2012.
X. Liang, W. Wu, D. Chang, and F. Zhang, “Real-time Modeling of Tidal Current for Navigating Underwater Glider Sensing Networks,” Procedia Computer Science, 10: 1121-1126, 2012.
W. Wu and F. Zhang, “Cooperative Exploration of Level Surfaces of Three Dimensional Scalar Fields,” Automatica, the IFAC Journal, 47(9), 2044-2051, 2011.
W. Wu, H. Zhao, W. Liu and W. Tao, “Eﬀects of Illumination on Image Quality in Precision Vision Measurement,” Journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 43(6), 931-934, 2009.

Book chapters

D. Chang, W. Wu, and F. Zhang, “Glider CT: Analysis and Experimental Validation”, in Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, ser. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics. Springer, Volume 112, 285 - 298, 2016.
D. Chang, X. Liang, W. Wu, C. R. Edwards, and F. Zhang, “Real-time Modeling of Ocean Current for Navigating Underwater Glider Sensing Networks,” ser. Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, ch. Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks. Volume 507, pp 61-75, 2014.

Peer-reviewed conference publications

Z. Zhang, S.T. Mayberry, W. Wu, and F. Zhang, "Distributed Cooperative Kalman Filter Constrained by Discretized Poisson Equation for Mobile Sensor Networks", in Proc. of 2023 American Control Conference (ACC), 1365 - 1370, 2023.
J. Gao, W. Wu, and O. Aktouf, "Adequate Testing Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle Systems - Infrastructures, Approaches, Issues, Challenges, and Needs", 2022 IEEE International Conferences on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE), 154 - 164, 2022.
Z. Zhang, W. Wu, and F. Zhang, "Cooperative Filtering and Parameter Estimation for Polynomial PDEs using a Mobile Sensor Network", in Proc. of 2022 American Control Conference (ACC), 982 - 987, 2022.
Y. Huang, W. Wu, K. Su, and Z. Guan, "Fighting Hunger in Difficult Times: Developing a Blockchain-based Food Rescue App", Global Conference on Services and Retail Management, accepted, 2021.
T. Yu, W. Lu, Y. Luo, C. Niu, and W. Wu, "Design and Implementation of a Small-scale Autonomous Vehicle for Autonomous Parking", in Proc. of IEEE 6th International Conference on Automation, Control and Robotics Engineering (CACRE), accepted, 2021.
K. J. Parikh and W. Wu, "LSTM-Enabled Level Curve Tracking in Scalar Fields Using a Mobile Sensor Network", in Proc. of ASME 2021 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference & 16th IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications, 85437, VOO7T07A051, 2021.
K. Wang, W. Xie, W. Wu, B. Wang, J. Pei, M. Baker, and Q. Zhou, “Simulation-based Digital Twin Development for Blockchain-Enabled End-to-End Industrial Hemp Supply Chain Risk Management”, in Proc. of 2020 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 797 - 808, 2020.
Z. Zhang, S. AL-Abri, W. Wu, and F. Zhang, “Level Curve Tracking without Localization Enabled by RecurrentNeural Networks”, in Proc. of IEEE 5th International Conference on Automation, Control and Robotics Engineering (CACRE), 759 - 763, 2020.
S. Guruswamy and W. Wu, “Cooperative Level Curve Tracking in Advection-Diffusion Fields”, in Proc. of IEEE 5th International Conference on Automation, Control and Robotics Engineering (CACRE), 434 - 438, 2020.
M. Zhu, D. Simon, S. J. Kalathia, N. Rajpurohit, and W. Wu. “Reinforcement Learning for Multi-robot Field Coverage Based on Local Observation”, in Proc. of IEEE 15th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE), pp. 35 - 40, 2020.
A. Chauhan, G. Savner, P. Venkatesh, V. Patil, and W. Wu, “A Blockchain-based Tracking System”, in Proc. of 14th IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering, accepted, 2020.
T. Lewicki, M. Kumar, R. Hong, and W. Wu. "Intracranial hemorrhage detection in CT Scans using deep learning". In Proc. of IEEE 6th international Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications, accepted, 2020.
K. Milkovich., S. Shirur, P. K. Desai, L. Manjunath, and W. Wu. “ZenDen - A personalized house searching application”. In Proc. of IEEE 6th international Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications, accepted, 2020.
W. Xie, W. Wu, B. Wang, J. You, Z. Ye, and Q. Zhou, "Simulation-Based Blockchain Design To Secure Biopharmaceutical Supply Chain", 2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 797 - 808, 2019.
S. Chatterjee and W. Wu, “A Modular Approach to Level Curve Tracking with Two Nonholonomic Mobile Robots”, 15th IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications, V009T12A051, 2019.
P. Amin, N. R. Anikireddypally, S. Khurana, S. Vadakkemadathil, and W. Wu, “Personalized Health Monitoring using Predictive Analytics”, IEEE 5th International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications, 271 - 278, 2019.
J. You and W. Wu, “Geometric Reinforcement Learning Based Path Planning for Mobile Sensor Networks in Advection-Diﬀusion Field Reconstruction”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control, 1949 - 1954, 2018.
J. You, W. Wu, and Y. Wang, “An adaptive Luenberger Observer for Speed-Sensorless Estimation of Induction Machines”, in Proc. of the American Control Conference (ACC 2018), 307 - 312, 2018.
J. You and W. Wu, “Sensing-Motion Co-Planning For Reconstructing a Spatially Distributed Field Using a Mobile Sensor Network”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2017), 3113 - 3118.
M. H. Jahnes, D. J. Glowny, T. A. Spaﬀord, J. L. Clough, E. S. Herkenham, W. Wu, and A. A. Julius, “Generating Enthusiasm for Mathematics Through Robotics”, 2017 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, 2017.
S. Chatterjee and W. Wu, “Cooperative Curve Tracking in Two Dimensions Without Explicit Estimation of the Field Gradient”, in Proc. of the IEEE 4th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, 0167-0712, 2017.
J. You, Y. Zhang, M. Li, K. Su, F. Zhang, and W. Wu, “Cooperative Parameter Identiﬁcation of Advection-diﬀusion Processes Using a Mobile Sensor Network”, in Proc. of the American Control Conference (ACC 2017), 3230 - 3236, 2017.
M. Li, K. Su, Y. Zhang, J. You, and W. Wu, “Experimental Validation of Diﬀusion Coeﬃcient Identiﬁcation Using a Multi-Robot System”, in Proc. of the 2016 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference, 2016.
J. You, F. Zhang, and W. Wu, “Cooperative Filtering for Parameter Identiﬁcation of Diﬀusion Processes”, in Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2016), 4327-4333, 2016.
L. Lu, J. You, and W. Wu, “Constrained Fast Source Seeking Using Two Nonholonomic Mobile Robots Without Gradient Estimation”, in Proc. of the American Control Conference (ACC 2016), 7295-7301, 2016.
W. Wu, A. Song, P. Varnell, and F. Zhang, “Cooperatively Mapping of the Underwater Acoustic Channel by Robot Swarms”, in Proc. of the 9th ACM International Conference on UnderWater Networks and Systems (WUWNet14), Article no. 20, 2014.
D. Chang, W. Wu, and F. Zhang, “Glider CT: Analysis and Experimental Validation”, in Proc. of the International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, 196-209, 2014. (Best Paper Award Finalist)
W. Wu, F. Zhang, and Y. Wardi, “Target Localization: Energy-Information Trade-oﬀs using Mobile Sensor Networks”, in Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2014), 2944-2949, 2014.
W. Wu, D. Chang, and F. Zhang, ”A Bio-inspired Robust 3D Plume Tracking Strategy Using Mobile Sensor Networks,” in Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2013), 4571-4578, 2013.
W. Wu, D. Chang, and F. Zhang, ”Glider CT: Reconstructing Flow Fields from Predicted Motion of Underwater Gliders”, in Proc. of the 8th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNET13), Article No. 47, 2013.
W. Wu, F. Zhang, and Y. Wardi, “Energy-Information Tradeoﬀs in Motion and Sensing for Target Localization,” in Proc. of the European Control Conference (ECC2013), 1250-1255, 2013.
D. Chang, W. Wu, D. R. Webster, M. Weissburg, and F. Zhang, “A Bio-inspired Pluming Tracking Algorithm for Mobile Sensing Swarms in Turbulent Flow,” in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2013), 921-926, 2013.
W. Wu and F. Zhang, “Coherent Steps of Mobile Sensing Agents in Gaussian Scalar Fields,” in Proc. of the 51th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2012), pp. 2814-2819, 2012.
W. Wu, I. D. Couzin, and F. Zhang, “Bio-inspired Source Seeking with no Explicit Gradient Estimation,” in Proc. of the 3rd IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked System (NecSys’12), 240-245, 2012. (Best Student Paper Award Finalist)
W. Wu and F. Zhang, “Explorability of Noisy Scalar Fields,” in Proc. of the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2011), pp. 6439-6444, 2011.
W. Wu and F. Zhang, “Experimental Validation of Source Seeking with a Switching Strategy,” in Proc. of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2011), pp. 3835-3840, 2011.
W. Wu and F. Zhang, “A Switching Strategy for Robust Cooperative Exploration,” in Proc. of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2010), pp. 5493-5498, 2010.
W. Wu and F. Zhang, “Curvature-Based Cooperative Exploration of Three Dimensional Scalar Fields,” in Proc. of the 2010 American Control Conference (ACC2010), pp. 2909-2915, 2010. (Best Presentation in Session)