Weiming Cheng

Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Shanghai University

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Weiming Cheng is a pioneering researcher in mobile robotics, with a focus on autonomous navigation, biomimetic locomotion, and specialized inspection systems. His work addresses fundamental challenges in robot mobility and path planning, particularly for constrained and unstructured environments. Cheng’s most cited paper (2006, 4 citations) introduces a genetic algorithm-based path planner for nonholonomic car-like robots, enabling efficient obstacle avoidance in complex terrains—a key contribution to evolutionary robotics. He also developed a novel mobile robot with a biologically inspired “backbone” (2002, 2 citations), granting it self-righting capabilities akin to ground mammals, which enhances resilience on rough or unstable surfaces. Additionally, Cheng contributed to practical infrastructure maintenance through a robotic inspection system for small pipelines (2000, 2 citations), targeting applications in nuclear power plants, civil engineering, and chemical facilities. Though citation counts are modest, his work demonstrates creative interdisciplinary thinking—merging control theory, evolutionary computation, and bio-inspired design—to solve real-world mobility and inspection problems. Cheng’s research remains relevant for students and engineers interested in autonomous robots, evolutionary algorithms, and field robotics.