Dongbin Shen

South China University of Technology, University of Hong Kong

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Dongbin Shen is a leading researcher in the field of multi-robot systems, with a primary focus on formation control and cooperative robotics. His work addresses fundamental challenges in coordinating nonholonomic mobile robots—vehicles with motion constraints like cars or differential-drive robots—without relying on perfect information from a leader. Shen’s most influential contribution is an adaptive PID formation control strategy that eliminates the need for the leader’s velocity information, a breakthrough that significantly enhances the practicality and robustness of decentralized robot teams. This work, published in 2014, has garnered 53 citations, underscoring its impact on the robotics community. He further advanced the field with a companion paper on leader-follower formation control without leader velocity data (25 citations), and earlier pioneered the application of second-order sliding mode control for stable formation keeping (13 citations). By developing algorithms that maintain desired inter-robot distances and bearing angles, Shen has laid critical groundwork for real-world applications in autonomous swarms, search-and-rescue, and industrial automation. His research continues to inspire new approaches to resilient, communication-efficient multi-robot coordination.