Wei-Hua Chieng

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

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Wei-Hua Chieng is a leading researcher in robotics, with a primary focus on autonomous navigation and perception for indoor mobile robots. His major contributions center on the development of **Exploration-Based SLAM (e-SLAM)**, a novel framework that enables robots to simultaneously map and localize themselves in unknown indoor environments using only LiDAR sensors. This work is critical for real-world applications where pre-existing maps are unavailable, such as disaster response or building exploration. His most-cited paper, "Exploration-Based SLAM (e-SLAM) for the Indoor Mobile Robot Using Lidar" (2022), has garnered 29 citations, establishing a foundation for efficient, sensor-limited mapping. Building on this, his 2023 paper on "Path Planning and Motion Control of Indoor Mobile Robot under Exploration-Based SLAM (e-SLAM)" (14 citations) advances the field by integrating path planning directly with the e-SLAM process, allowing robots to navigate intelligently using only the sparse maps they generate. Chieng’s work is notable for its practical, minimal-sensor approach, making autonomous exploration more accessible and robust. His research directly addresses the challenge of deploying robots in unstructured, unknown spaces, with significant implications for service robotics, logistics, and search-and-rescue operations.