Xiangyong Wen

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Total Citations

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About

Xiangyong Wen is a pioneering roboticist whose research pushes the boundaries of autonomous multi-robot systems in extreme environments. His primary focus lies in swarm robotics, mutual localization, and time synchronization—critical challenges for deploying robot teams in unstructured, GPS-denied settings. Wen’s landmark work, “Swarm of micro flying robots in the wild” (2022), has garnered 539 citations, demonstrating its profound impact. In this study, he demonstrated the first-ever autonomous swarm of micro aerial vehicles navigating dense, cluttered forests, solving the formidable problems of unknown surroundings, narrow corridors, and real-time swarm coordination. Beyond this breakthrough, Wen has advanced the theoretical foundations of multi-robot cooperation. His work on bearing-based relative localization (2023) provides certifiable and robust solvers for estimating relative poses among robots with partially mutual observations, a key enabler for scalable swarms. Most recently, he has tackled the often-overlooked issue of time synchronization in mutual localization (2024), showing how even small timing errors can degrade estimation accuracy and proposing novel solutions. Through these contributions, Wen is shaping the future of autonomous robot teams capable of operating in the most challenging real-world environments.