Wai-keung Fung

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Wai-keung Fung is a researcher whose work spans robotics, teleoperation, and artificial intelligence, with foundational contributions to Internet-based remote robotic systems. His most influential research addresses one of telerobotics' central challenges: enabling humans to operate robots effectively across networked environments despite latency, bandwidth constraints, and limited sensory feedback. His landmark 2001 paper on haptic information in Internet-based teleoperation (137 citations) established the critical role of tactile sensing in remote task execution, while his 2003 work on supermedia-enhanced telerobotics (100 citations) introduced innovative frameworks integrating video, audio, haptic, and thermal feedback into cohesive real-time control systems. Fung further advanced the field through studies on multi-site cooperative teleoperation, dynamic Quality-of-Service bandwidth allocation, and 3D stereoscopic visual feedback, collectively demonstrating his commitment to making remote robotic operation more intuitive and reliable. His practical contributions extend to healthcare robotics, notably a hospital transport robot utilizing natural landmarks for autonomous navigation. More recently, Fung has broadened his scope to artificial intelligence applications in public health, contributing a widely cited review on AI for COVID-19 containment (61 citations). Across more than two decades of research, his work has consistently bridged theoretical innovation with real-world applicability.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Haptic information in Internet-based teleoperation

   137 citations · 2001
2. 2
   Supermedia-enhanced internet-based telerobotics

   100 citations · 2003
3. 3
   Review on the Evaluation and Development of Artificial Intelligence for COVID-19 Containment

   61 citations · 2023
4. 4
   Modeling and control of Internet based cooperative teleoperation

   35 citations · 2002
5. 5
   Multi-site Internet-based cooperative control of robotic operations

   32 citations · 2002
6. 6
   Development of a hospital service robot for transporting task

   25 citations · 2004
7. 7
   Task driven dynamic QoS based bandwidth allocation for real-time teleoperation via the Internet

   24 citations · 2004
8. 8
   Improving efficiency of Internet based teleoperation using network QoS

   24 citations · 2003
9. 9
   Adaptive categorization of ART networks in robot behavior learning using game-theoretic formulation

   18 citations · 2003
10. 10
    A case study of 3D stereoscopic vs. 2D monoscopic tele-reality in real-time dexterous teleoperation

    17 citations · 2005

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