Chengen Wang

Northeastern University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Western University

Papers

Total Citations

105

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About

Chengen Wang is a leading figure in intelligent manufacturing and aerospace engineering, best known for pioneering computational approaches to complex design and scheduling problems. His core research spans pipe routing optimization, flexible manufacturing systems, and remote robotics. Wang’s most influential contribution is the development of a modified particle swarm optimization (MPSO) algorithm for automatic pipe assembly in aero-engines, a breakthrough that generates near-optimal routes in constrained 3D rotational space. This work, published in 2010, has earned 48 citations and remains a cornerstone in aerospace automation. He further advanced the field with a graph-based pipe routing algorithm (2013, 23 citations), enabling more efficient spatial planning. Beyond routing, Wang tackled the scheduling of multi-operation jobs in partially overlapping flexible manufacturing systems (2006, 10 citations), addressing a general form of classical scheduling problems. His early work on remote robot manufacturing over the Internet (2001, 24 citations) demonstrated visionary thinking in networked automation. With over 100 total citations, Wang’s research has directly influenced both academic theory and industrial practice in aerospace and manufacturing, offering elegant computational solutions to some of the most geometrically and operationally constrained engineering challenges.