Yingying Cheng

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Total Citations

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Yingying Cheng is a control systems researcher whose work centers on multi-agent systems, nonholonomic mobile robotics, and finite-time cooperative control. Her research addresses some of the most technically demanding challenges in autonomous robotic coordination, particularly the consensus and formation control problems for wheeled mobile robots operating under complex high-order dynamic models and nonholonomic constraints. Cheng's most influential contribution, "Distributed Finite-Time Cooperative Control of Multiple High-Order Nonholonomic Mobile Robots" (2016), has accumulated 185 citations and introduced an explicitly constructed finite-time cooperative controller for robots in chained-form structures — a significant advancement over existing asymptotic approaches. Building on this foundation, her 2017 work on robust finite-time formation control extended these methods to leader-following frameworks using output feedback, a practically important innovation since it removes the requirement for direct velocity measurement, garnering 89 citations. Her 2018 paper further refined finite-time output feedback strategies for individual nonholonomic robots, consolidating her contributions to tractable, real-world-applicable control design. Collectively, Cheng's research has shaped how engineers approach decentralized multi-robot coordination, offering rigorous, finite-time guarantees that are essential for safety-critical autonomous systems. Her growing citation record reflects a meaningful and expanding influence within robotics and control theory communities.