Chee Kit Wong

About

Chee Kit Wong is a robotics researcher whose work spans cognitive mapping, autonomous navigation, robotic rehabilitation, and vision-guided manipulation. His most sustained contributions lie in the field of mobile robotics and spatial cognition, where he pioneered efforts to model how robots can explore and represent environments in ways analogous to animal cognitive mapping. Through a series of influential papers from 2005 to 2008, Wong developed and tested frameworks for building metric-topological maps using sonar-equipped mobile robots, including a novel split-and-merge approach to hybrid map construction that earned 12 citations. His cognitive mapping research, collectively accumulating nearly 40 citations, demonstrated how fragmentary environmental knowledge could support intelligent path planning—bridging biological theories of navigation with practical robotic implementation. Beyond navigation, Wong extended his expertise into applied robotics, contributing to stroke rehabilitation through a robotic arm skate device and advancing agricultural automation via vision-based crop localisation and manipulation systems. His work on processing natural objects and ovine carcasses further reflects a career committed to translating robotic perception into real-world industrial and healthcare solutions, making him a versatile contributor across multiple domains of applied robotics research.

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Key Achievements

Top Papers

1. 1
   Initial experiments with a mobile robot on cognitive mapping

   14 citations · 2006
2. 2
   Using a mobile robot for cognitive mapping

   14 citations · 2007
3. 3
   A Split & Merge Approach to Metric-Topological Map-Building

   12 citations · 2006
4. 4
   Robotic arm skate for stroke rehabilitation

   10 citations · 2011
5. 5
   Using a Mobile Robot to Test a Theory of Cognitive Mapping

   5 citations · 2007
6. 6
   Vision-based approach for the localisation and manipulation of ground-based crop

   5 citations · 2014
7. 7
   A Mobile Robot that Maps Naively But Plans Intelligently

   5 citations · 2005
8. 8
   Spatial Information Extraction for Cognitive Mapping with a Mobile Robot

   4 citations · 2007
9. 9
   Vision Strategies for Robotic Manipulation of Natural Objects

   3 citations · 2009
10. 10
    Vision system for the automation of ovine carcass processing

    2 citations · 2014

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