Yanni Yang

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Total Citations

213

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About

Dr. Yanni Yang is a leading researcher at the intersection of cyber-physical systems (CPS), the Internet of Things (IoT), and intelligent warehousing for Industry 4.0. Her work is foundational to the next generation of automated logistics, with a particular focus on how smart environments can sense, locate, and interact with physical objects. Dr. Yang’s most impactful contribution is a landmark survey on CPS-based smart warehouses, which has garnered over 114 citations and serves as a critical roadmap for integrating data collection, communication, and control technologies in industrial settings. She has also made a significant breakthrough in robotic perception with her work on mobile RFID-augmented robots. Her 2019 paper on accurate tag localization, cited nearly 100 times, solves the practical challenge of automatically finding and fetching items in cluttered warehouses, overcoming the limitations of traditional localization systems. By enabling robots to precisely pinpoint tagged objects without requiring dense infrastructure, Dr. Yang’s research directly paves the way for autonomous inventory management and error-free order fulfillment, establishing her as a key innovator in the future of smart manufacturing and logistics.