Yiguang Hong

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tongji University

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566

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About

Yiguang Hong is a leading figure in control theory and multi-robot systems, whose work bridges foundational nonlinear control with cutting-edge distributed robotics. His seminal 2002 paper on finite-time control for robot manipulators, cited over 548 times, introduced rigorous Lyapunov-based methods for achieving convergence in finite time—a breakthrough that has become a cornerstone in robotic precision and safety-critical applications. In multi-robot coordination, Hong pioneered flexible hierarchical formation control, enabling unicycle robots to dynamically reconfigure their geometric arrangements through virtual graph structures, a concept that has influenced swarm robotics and autonomous fleet management. His recent work tackles the grand challenge of distributed collaborative SLAM (DCSLAM), where he developed a multi-level partitioning approach for pose-graph optimization that scales to large robot teams without centralized computation. This back-end innovation addresses key bottlenecks in real-time mapping for search-and-rescue and exploration. With a career spanning over two decades, Hong’s contributions have shaped both theoretical control design and practical multi-agent autonomy, earning him recognition as a key architect of modern distributed robotic systems.