Miaomiao Wang

About

Miaomiao Wang is a leading researcher in robotics, whose work has fundamentally advanced the field of sensor calibration and robot perception. Her primary research areas include hand-eye calibration, robot-world calibration, and sensor fusion, with a particular focus on developing mathematically elegant and highly accurate solutions for robotic systems. Wang’s most significant contribution is her universal analytical solution to the classic hand-eye calibration problem (AX = XB), published in 2019, which has garnered 81 citations for its innovative use of 4-D Procrustes analysis and unit-octonion representation. She further extended this work to simultaneously calibrate hand-eye, robot-world, and camera-IMU systems (34 citations), a breakthrough that eliminates the need for inertial data and streamlines multi-sensor integration. Her 2020 paper reframing hand-eye calibration as point-set matching (27 citations) demonstrated superior accuracy over conventional methods. Wang’s impact is also evident in her work on high-dimensional rigid registration and navigation observers for inertial systems. With over 170 total citations and a consistent record of advancing calibration theory from analytical solutions to practical implementations, she has established herself as a pivotal figure in enabling precise, safe, and perceptive robotic manipulation.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Hand-Eye Calibration: 4-D Procrustes Analysis Approach

   81 citations · 2019
2. 2
   Simultaneous Hand–Eye/Robot–World/Camera–IMU Calibration

   34 citations · 2021
3. 3
   A New Formulation for Hand–Eye Calibrations as Point-Set Matching

   27 citations · 2020
4. 4
   A fast and accurate new algorithm for hand–eye calibration on SO(3)<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" id="d1e1036" altimg="si4.svg"><mml:mrow><mml:mo>×</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="double-struck">R</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:msup></mml:mrow></mml:math>

   8 citations · 2021
5. 5
   Path Planning Based on an Improved Ant Colony Algorithm

   5 citations · 2018
6. 6
   Observers Design for Inertial Navigation Systems: A Brief Tutorial

   5 citations · 2020
7. 7
   Research of kinematics parameter calibration for robot manipulator based on measuring method

   5 citations · 2009
8. 8
   Generalized <i>n</i>-Dimensional Rigid Registration: Theory and Applications

   4 citations · 2022
9. 9
   A Modern Solution for an Old Calibration Problem

   4 citations · 2021
10. 10
    A Null Space Compliance Approach for Maintaining Safety and Tracking Performance in Human-Robot Interactions

    1 citations · 2025

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