Wei-Shiu Wang

National Taipei University of Technology

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Wei-Shiu Wang is a pioneering researcher in industrial robotics, with a career focused on advancing real-time control systems for flexible-joint robots. His work bridges theoretical control design and practical implementation, addressing critical challenges in robot motion precision and computational efficiency. Wang's most influential contribution, the 1992 paper "Controller design and implementation for industrial robots with flexible joints" (19 citations), introduces a dual-loop control strategy combining feedforward inverse-dynamics compensation with a frequency-domain optimal feedback controller—a framework that significantly improves trajectory tracking and vibration suppression in flexible-joint manipulators. Building on this, his 1994 study "Implementation and experimental study of a multiprocessor system for real-time model-based robot motion control" (10 citations) demonstrates a pioneering parallel computing architecture that enables full inverse dynamics compensation in both joint and Cartesian spaces. By decomposing complex control algorithms into subtasks for multiprocessor execution, Wang achieved the real-time performance essential for high-speed, high-precision industrial applications. His work remains foundational for researchers developing computationally efficient, model-based control systems for modern collaborative and flexible robots.