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Pengpeng Wang is a robotics and computational geometry researcher whose work centers on autonomous robot navigation, sensor-based exploration, and view planning optimization. His most significant contributions lie in advancing the theoretical and practical foundations of the **View Planning Problem (VPP)**, particularly through the introduction of the "traveling VPP" framework, which formulates the challenge of inspecting object surfaces as a cost-minimization problem balancing sensing actions with robot travel — a formulation that has garnered 38 citations and influenced subsequent coverage planning research. Wang has also made notable strides in configuration space (C-space) entropy as a principled measure for guiding robot exploration under uncertainty. By directing robots to select sensing actions that maximally reduce C-space entropy, his work provides an elegant probabilistic approach to path planning with noisy sensors — contributions reflected across multiple papers from 2004 to 2007. His complexity analyses of the Metric View Planning Problem further establish rigorous theoretical bounds for visibility-constrained inspection tasks in 2D and 3D environments. Collectively, Wang's research bridges combinatorial optimization and robotic perception, offering frameworks that remain relevant to autonomous inspection, mapping, and coverage planning — core challenges in modern robotics and unmanned systems.