Yebin Wang
- Phone: 617-621-7571
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Position:
Research / Technical Staff
Senior Principal Research Scientist,
Senior Team Leader -
Education:
Ph.D., University of Alberta, 2008 -
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Biography
Prior to joining MERL, Yebin worked on process control, software development and management, and nonlinear estimation theory for over ten years. At MERL, Yebin has been working on control and estimation for various automation and transportation systems. Yebin's research interests include nonlinear estimation/control theory and applications, optimal control, adaptive/learning systems, modeling and control of complex systems.
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Recent News & Events
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NEWS MERL researchers present 13 papers at ACC 2025 Date: July 8, 2025 - July 10, 2025
Where: Denver, USA
MERL Contacts: Ankush Chakrabarty; Vedang M. Deshpande; Stefano Di Cairano; Purnanand Elango; Jordan Leung; Saviz Mowlavi; Diego Romeres; Abraham P. Vinod; Yebin Wang; Avishai Weiss
Research Areas: Control, Dynamical Systems, Electric Systems, Machine Learning, Multi-Physical Modeling, RoboticsBrief- MERL researchers presented 13 papers at the recently concluded American Control Conference (ACC) 2025 in Denver, USA. The papers covered a wide range of topics including Bayesian optimization for personalized medicine, machine learning for battery performance in eVTOLs, model predictive control for space and building systems, process systems engineering for sustainability, GNSS-RTK optimization, convex set manipulation, PDE control, servo system modeling, battery fault diagnosis, truck fleet coordination, interactive motion planning, and satellite station keeping. Additionally, MERL researchers (Vedang Deshpande and Ankush Chakrabarty) organized an invited session on design and optimization of energy systems.
As a sponsor of the conference, MERL maintained a booth for open discussions with researchers and students, and hosted a special session to discuss highlights of MERL research and work philosophy.
- MERL researchers presented 13 papers at the recently concluded American Control Conference (ACC) 2025 in Denver, USA. The papers covered a wide range of topics including Bayesian optimization for personalized medicine, machine learning for battery performance in eVTOLs, model predictive control for space and building systems, process systems engineering for sustainability, GNSS-RTK optimization, convex set manipulation, PDE control, servo system modeling, battery fault diagnosis, truck fleet coordination, interactive motion planning, and satellite station keeping. Additionally, MERL researchers (Vedang Deshpande and Ankush Chakrabarty) organized an invited session on design and optimization of energy systems.
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NEWS MERL contributes to 2025 European Control Conference Date: June 24, 2025 - June 27, 2025
Where: Thessaloniki
MERL Contacts: Stefano Di Cairano; Daniel N. Nikovski; Diego Romeres; Yebin Wang
Research Areas: Control, Dynamical Systems, Machine Learning, Multi-Physical Modeling, Optimization, RoboticsBrief- MERL researchers contributed to both the technical program and workshop organization at the 2025 European Control Conference (ECC), held in Thessaloniki, Greece, from June 24 to 27. ECC is one of the premier conferences in the field of control.
In the main conference, MERL researchers presented four papers covering a range of topics, including: Representation learning, Motion planning for tractor-trailers, Motion planning for mobile manipulators, Learning high-dimensional dynamical systems, Model learning for robotics.
Additionally, MERL co-organized a workshop with the University of Padua titled “Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Control: Recent Developments and Open Challenges.” MERL researcher Diego Romeres also delivered an invited talk titled “Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly” in that workshop.
- MERL researchers contributed to both the technical program and workshop organization at the 2025 European Control Conference (ECC), held in Thessaloniki, Greece, from June 24 to 27. ECC is one of the premier conferences in the field of control.
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Awards
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AWARD MERL work receives IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best New Application Paper Award from IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Date: May 19, 2025
Awarded to: Yehan Ma, Yebin Wang, Stefano Di Cairano, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Jianlin Guo, Philip Orlik, Xinping Guan and Chenyang Lu
MERL Contacts: Stefano Di Cairano; Jianlin Guo; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Philip V. Orlik; Yebin Wang
Research Areas: Communications, Control, Machine LearningBrief- The paper “Smart Actuation for End-Edge Industrial Control Systems”, co-authored by MERL intern Yehan Ma, MERL researchers Yebin Wang, Stefano Di Cairano, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Jianlin Guo, and Philip Orlik, and academic collaborators Xinping Guan and Chenyang Lu, was recognized as the Best New Application Paper of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), for "a new industrial automation solution that ensures safety operation through coordinated co-design of edge model predictive control and local actuation".
The award recognizes the best application paper published in T-ASE over the previous calendar year, for the significance of new applications, technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, and clarity of presentation.
- The paper “Smart Actuation for End-Edge Industrial Control Systems”, co-authored by MERL intern Yehan Ma, MERL researchers Yebin Wang, Stefano Di Cairano, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Jianlin Guo, and Philip Orlik, and academic collaborators Xinping Guan and Chenyang Lu, was recognized as the Best New Application Paper of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), for "a new industrial automation solution that ensures safety operation through coordinated co-design of edge model predictive control and local actuation".
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MERL Publications
- , "Machine Learning-Driven Prediction of Lithium-Ion Battery Power Capability for eVTOL Aircraft", American Control Conference (ACC), July 2025.BibTeX
- @inproceedings{Tu2025jul,
- author = {Tu, Hao and Wang, Yebin and Mou, Shaoshuai and Fang, Huazhen},
- title = {{Machine Learning-Driven Prediction of Lithium-Ion Battery Power Capability for eVTOL Aircraft}},
- booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
- year = 2025,
- month = jul
- }
- , "A Hierarchical Approach for Tractor-trailer Motion Planning Using Graph Search and Reinforcement Learning", European Control Conference (ECC), June 2025.BibTeX TR2025-093 PDF
- @inproceedings{Ma2025jun,
- author = {Ma, Haitong and Zhang, Tianpeng and Li, Na and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Wang, Yebin},
- title = {{A Hierarchical Approach for Tractor-trailer Motion Planning Using Graph Search and Reinforcement Learning}},
- booktitle = {European Control Conference (ECC)},
- year = 2025,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-093}
- }
- , "Enhanced Agility and Safety in Mobile Manipulators through Centroidal Momentum-Based Motion Planning", European Control Conference (ECC), June 2025.BibTeX TR2025-092 PDF
- @inproceedings{Dai2025jun,
- author = {Dai, Min and Lu, Zehui and Li, Na and Wang, Yebin},
- title = {{Enhanced Agility and Safety in Mobile Manipulators through Centroidal Momentum-Based Motion Planning}},
- booktitle = {European Control Conference (ECC)},
- year = 2025,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-092}
- }
- , "Physics-informed Machine Learning with Heuristic Feedback Control Layer for Autonomous Vehicle Control", IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), June 2025.BibTeX TR2025-087 PDF
- @inproceedings{Li2025jun2,
- author = {Li, Xianning and Wang, Yebin and Ozbay, Kaan and Jiang, Zhong-Ping},
- title = {{Physics-informed Machine Learning with Heuristic Feedback Control Layer for Autonomous Vehicle Control}},
- booktitle = {IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)},
- year = 2025,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-087}
- }
- , "Delayed Expansion AGT: Kinodynamic Planning with Application to Tractor-Trailer Parking", arXiv, June 2025.BibTeX arXiv
- @article{Zheng2025jun,
- author = {Zheng, Dongliang and Wang, Yebin and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Tsiotras, Panagiotis},
- title = {{Delayed Expansion AGT: Kinodynamic Planning with Application to Tractor-Trailer Parking}},
- journal = {arXiv},
- year = 2025,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2506.13421}
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- , "Machine Learning-Driven Prediction of Lithium-Ion Battery Power Capability for eVTOL Aircraft", American Control Conference (ACC), July 2025.
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Videos
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MERL Issued Patents
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Title: "System and Method for Controlling Movement of a Vehicle"
Inventors: Quirynen, Rien; Wang, Yebin; Ahmad, Ahmad; Wang, Zejiang; Di Cairano, Stefano; Bhagat, Akshay; Zeino, Eyad
Patent No.: 12,311,975
Issue Date: May 27, 2025 -
Title: "Systems and Methods for Flexible Robotic Manipulation by Fast Online Load Estimation"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin; Duan, Xiaoming; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Orlik, Philip V.
Patent No.: 12,290,928
Issue Date: May 6, 2025 -
Title: "System and Method for Controlling Motion of Articulated Vehicles"
Inventors: Greiff, Marcus; Quirynen, Rien; Berntorp, Karl; Di Cairano, Stefano; Wang, Yebin; Zeino, Eyad; Tiwari, Astha; Iqbal, Hassan; Ran, Shuangxuan; You, Sixiong
Patent No.: 12,286,151
Issue Date: Apr 29, 2025 -
Title: "System and Method for Controlling a Motion of a Robot"
Inventors: Lin, Chungwei; Wang, Yebin; Quirynen, Rien; Jha, Devesh; Wang, Bingnan; Vetterling, William; Jain, Siddarth; Bortoff, Scott A.
Patent No.: 12,257,718
Issue Date: Mar 25, 2025 -
Title: "Systems and Methods for Reactive Power Injection Based Flying Start of Synchronous Machines"
Inventors: Varatharajan, Anantaram; Wang, Yebin; Goldsmith, Abraham M.
Patent No.: 12,249,934
Issue Date: Mar 11, 2025 -
Title: "System and Method for Controlling an Electric Motor without a Position Sensor"
Inventors: Varatharajan, Anantaram; Wang, Yebin .
Patent No.: 12,249,932
Issue Date: Mar 11, 2025 -
Title: "System and Method for Data-Driven Reference Generation"
Inventors: Chakrabarty, Ankush; Berntorp, Karl; Di Cairano, Stefano; Wang, Yebin
Patent No.: 12,246,699
Issue Date: Mar 11, 2025 -
Title: "System and Method for Parking an Autonomous Ego-Vehicle in a Dynamic Environment of a Parking Area"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin .; Leu, Jessica; Di Cairano, Stefano
Patent No.: 12,157,502
Issue Date: Dec 3, 2024 -
Title: "Autonomous Parking with Hybrid Exploration of Parking Space"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin; Dai, Siyu
Patent No.: 11,767,035
Issue Date: Sep 26, 2023 -
Title: "Multi-Layer Axial and Radial flux Vernier Permanent Magnet Motor"
Inventors: Zhou, Lei; Wang, Bingnan; Lin, Chungwei; Liu, Dehong; Wang, Yebin; Teo, Koon Hoo
Patent No.: 11,502,564
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2022 -
Title: "System and Method for Feasibly Positioning Servomotors with Unmodeled Dynamics"
Inventors: Chakrabarty, Ankush; Danielson, Claus; Wang, Yebin
Patent No.: 11,392,104
Issue Date: Jul 19, 2022 -
Title: "Data-Driven Nonlinear Output-Feedback Control of Power Generators"
Inventors: Gao, Weinan; Wang, Yebin
Patent No.: 11,392,099
Issue Date: Jul 19, 2022 -
Title: "System and Method for Estimating Temperature and Heat Loss in Electric Motors"
Inventors: Wang, Bingnan; Wang, Yebin; Ma, Tong; Lin, Chungwei; Komatsu, Taiga
Patent No.: 11,293,986
Issue Date: Apr 5, 2022 -
Title: "Network Adapted Control System"
Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Ma, Yehan; Wang, Yebin; Chakrabarty, Ankush; Ahn, Heejin; Orlik, Philip V.
Patent No.: 10,969,767
Issue Date: Apr 6, 2021 -
Title: "System and Method for Control Constrained Operation of Machine with Partially Unmodeled Dynamics Using Lipschitz Constant"
Inventors: Chakrabarty, Ankush; Jha, Devesh; Wang, Yebin
Patent No.: 10,895,854
Issue Date: Jan 19, 2021 -
Title: "Deterministic Path Planning for Controlling Vehicle Movement"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin
Patent No.: 10,809,732
Issue Date: Oct 20, 2020 -
Title: "Network Adapted Control System"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin; Ma, Yehan; Orlik, Philip V.; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Guo, Jianlin
Patent No.: 10,809,701
Issue Date: Oct 20, 2020 -
Title: "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA-DRIVEN CONTROL WITH PARTIALLY UNKNOWN FEEDBACK"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin
Patent No.: 10,768,585
Issue Date: Sep 8, 2020 -
Title: "Vehicle Motion Control System and Method"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin; Dai, Jin
Patent No.: 10,663,966
Issue Date: May 26, 2020 -
Title: "Motion Controller for Real-Time Continuous Curvature Path Planning"
Inventors: Bortoff, Scott A.; Wang, Yebin; Dai, Jin
Patent No.: 10,591,915
Issue Date: Mar 17, 2020 -
Title: "METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR BATTERY STATE OF POWER PREDICTION"
Inventors: Pajovic, Milutin; Sahinoglu, Zafer; Wang, Yebin; Orlik, Philip V.
Patent No.: 10,564,222
Issue Date: Feb 18, 2020 -
Title: "Interference Free Scheduling for Multi-Controller Multi-Control-Loop Control Systems over Wireless Communication Networks"
Inventors: Guo, Jianlin; Orlik, Philip V.; Wang, Yebin
Patent No.: 10,531,477
Issue Date: Jan 7, 2020 -
Title: "RECHARGEABLE BATTERY PARAMETER ESTIMATION APPARATUS ANDRECHARGEABLE BATTERY PARAMETER ESTIMATION METHOD"
Inventors: Wada, Toshihiro; Takegami, Tomoki; Wang, Yebin .; Kim, Taesic; Sahinoglu, Zafer
Patent No.: 10,353,007
Issue Date: Jul 16, 2019 -
Title: "Methods and Systems for Data-Driven Battery State of Charge (SoC) Estimation"
Inventors: Pajovic, Milutin; Ozcan, Gozde; Sahinoglu, Zafer; Wang, Yebin; Orlik, Philip V.
Patent No.: 10,324,135
Issue Date: Jun 18, 2019 -
Title: "System and Method for Speed Sensorless Motor Drives"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin
Patent No.: 10,218,301
Issue Date: Feb 26, 2019 -
Title: "Method and System for Controlling Angular Speeds of Motors in Speed Sensorless Induction Motors"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin; Bortoff, Scott A.
Patent No.: 9,985,563
Issue Date: May 29, 2018 -
Title: "Vehicle Automated Parking System and Method"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin; Jha, Devesh
Patent No.: 9,969,386
Issue Date: May 15, 2018 -
Title: "System and Method for Controlling Speed of Electric Motor"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin; Zhou, Lei
Patent No.: 9,966,891
Issue Date: May 8, 2018 -
Title: "Method and System for Controlling Angular Rotor Speeds of Sensorless Induction Motors"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin; Zhang, Jian
Patent No.: 9,893,666
Issue Date: Feb 13, 2018 -
Title: "System and Method for Controlling Elevator Door Systems"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin
Patent No.: 9,834,414
Issue Date: Dec 5, 2017 -
Title: "Method and System for Controlling an Angular Speed of an Induction Motor"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin
Patent No.: 9,780,711
Issue Date: Oct 3, 2017 -
Title: "Motion-Control System for Performing Different Tasks"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin; Jiang, Yu; Bortoff, Scott A.
Patent No.: 9,529,341
Issue Date: Dec 27, 2016 -
Title: "Optimization of System Control Based on Solving Multi-Point Boundary Value Problems"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin; Bortoff, Scott A.
Patent No.: 9,378,469
Issue Date: Jun 28, 2016 -
Title: "Method for Estimating a State of Charge of Batteries"
Inventors: Sahinoglu, Zafer; Fang, Huazhen; Wang, Yebin
Patent No.: 9,244,129
Issue Date: Jan 26, 2016 -
Title: "System and Method for Controlling Semi-Active Actuators Arranged to Minimize Vibration in Elevator Systems"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin; Bortoff, Scott A.
Patent No.: 9,242,837
Issue Date: Jan 26, 2016 -
Title: "Method for Estimating State of Charge for Lithium-Ion Batteries"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin; Fang, Huazhen; Sahinoglu, Zafer
Patent No.: 9,077,182
Issue Date: Jul 7, 2015 -
Title: "Method for Determining Trajectory of Multi-Motor Control System Avoiding Obstacle"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin; Yu, Han; Bortoff, Scott A.
Patent No.: 9,076,337
Issue Date: Jul 7, 2015 -
Title: "System and Method for Controlling Semi-Active Actuators Arranged to Minimize Vibration in Elevator Systems"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin; Bortoff, Scott A.
Patent No.: 8,849,465
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2014 -
Title: "An Energy Efficient Motion Control System"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin; Koichiro, Ueda; Bortoff, Scott A.
Patent No.: 8,816,627
Issue Date: Aug 26, 2014 -
Title: "System and Method for Controlling Semi-Active Actuators"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin; Bortoff, Scott A.
Patent No.: 8,768,522
Issue Date: Jul 1, 2014 -
Title: "System and Method for Reducing Lateral Vibration in Elevator"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin
Patent No.: 8,761,947
Issue Date: Jun 24, 2014 -
Title: "Method for Determining Trajectories Manipulators to Avoid Obstacles"
Inventors: Zhao, Yiming; Wang, Yebin
Patent No.: 8,700,307
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2014 -
Title: "Method for Generating Trajectories for Motor Controlled Actuators"
Inventors: Wang, Yebin; Bortoff, Scott A.; Zhao, Yiming
Patent No.: 8,700,190
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2014
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Title: "System and Method for Controlling Movement of a Vehicle"