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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Yebin's Quick Links
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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 contributes to ICRA 2025 Date: May 19, 2025 - May 23, 2025
Where: IEEE ICRA
MERL Contacts: Stefano Di Cairano; Jianlin Guo; Chiori Hori; Siddarth Jain; Devesh K. Jha; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Philip V. Orlik; Arvind Raghunathan; Diego Romeres; Yuki Shirai; Abraham P. Vinod; Yebin Wang
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Control, Dynamical Systems, Machine Learning, Optimization, Robotics, Human-Computer InteractionBrief- MERL made significant contributions to both the organization and the technical program of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025, which was held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, from May 19th to May 23rd.
MERL was a Bronze sponsor of the conference, and MERL researchers chaired four sessions in the areas of Manipulation Planning, Human-Robot Collaboration, Diffusion Policy, and Learning for Robot Control.
MERL researchers presented four papers in the main conference on the topics of contact-implicit trajectory optimization, proactive robotic assistance in human-robot collaboration, diffusion policy with human preferences, and dynamic and model learning of robotic manipulators. In addition, five more papers were presented in the workshops: “Structured Learning for Efficient, Reliable, and Transparent Robots,” “Safely Leveraging Vision-Language Foundation Models in Robotics: Challenges and Opportunities,” “Long-term Human Motion Prediction,” and “The Future of Intelligent Manufacturing: From Innovation to Implementation.”
MERL researcher Diego Romeres delivered an invited talk titled “Dexterous Robotics: From Multimodal Sensing to Real-World Physical Interactions.”
MERL also collaborated with the University of Padua on one of the conference’s challenges: the “3rd AI Olympics with RealAIGym” (https://ai-olympics.dfki-bremen.de).
During the conference, MERL researchers received the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best New Application Paper Award for their paper titled “Smart Actuation for End-Edge Industrial Control Systems.”
About ICRA
The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is the flagship conference of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on research advances and the latest technological developments in robotics. The event attracts over 7,000 participants, 143 partners and exhibitors, and receives more than 4,000 paper submissions.
- MERL made significant contributions to both the organization and the technical program of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025, which was held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, from May 19th to May 23rd.
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TALK [MERL Seminar Series 2024] Zhaojian Li presents talk titled A Multi-Arm Robotic System for Robotic Apple Harvesting Date & Time: Wednesday, October 2, 2024; 1:00 PM
Speaker: Zhaojian Li, Mivchigan State University
MERL Host: Yebin Wang
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Control, RoboticsAbstractHarvesting labor is the single largest cost in apple production in the U.S. Surging cost and growing shortage of labor has forced the apple industry to seek automated harvesting solutions. Despite considerable progress in recent years, the existing robotic harvesting systems still fall short of performance expectations, lacking robustness and proving inefficient or overly complex for practical commercial deployment. In this talk, I will present the development and evaluation of a new dual-arm robotic apple harvesting system. This work is a result of a continuous collaboration between Michigan State University and U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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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
- }
, - "Simultaneous Collision Detection and Force Estimation for Dynamic Quadrupedal Locomotion", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2025.BibTeX TR2025-063 PDF
- @inproceedings{Zhou2025may,
- author = {Zhou, Ziyi and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Wang, Yebin and Berntorp, Karl},
- title = {{Simultaneous Collision Detection and Force Estimation for Dynamic Quadrupedal Locomotion}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
- year = 2025,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-063}
- }
, - "A Novel High-Frequency Injection Method Towards Speed-Sensorless Drive Control of Induction Machines over Full Speed Range", IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC), May 2025.BibTeX TR2025-061 PDF
- @inproceedings{Wu2025may2,
- author = {Wu, Jingjie and Goldsmith, Abraham and Zhou, Lei and Liu, Dehong and Wang, Bingnan and Wang, Yebin},
- title = {{A Novel High-Frequency Injection Method Towards Speed-Sensorless Drive Control of Induction Machines over Full Speed Range}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC)},
- year = 2025,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-061}
- }
, - "A Unified Observer for Smooth Speed-Sensorless Drive Control of Induction Machines at Full Speed Range", IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC), May 2025.BibTeX TR2025-060 PDF
- @inproceedings{Wu2025may,
- author = {Wu, Jingjie and Goldsmith, Abraham and Liu, Dehong and Wang, Bingnan and Zhou, Lei and Wang, Yebin},
- title = {{A Unified Observer for Smooth Speed-Sensorless Drive Control of Induction Machines at Full Speed Range}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC)},
- year = 2025,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-060}
- }
, - "Time-optimal single-scalar control on a qubit of unitary dynamics", Physical Review, April 2025.BibTeX TR2025-048 PDF
- @article{Lin2025apr2,
- author = {Lin, Chungwei and Boufounos, Petros T. and Ma, Yanting and Wang, Yebin and Ding, Qi and Sels, Dries and Chien, Chih-Chun},
- title = {{Time-optimal single-scalar control on a qubit of unitary dynamics}},
- journal = {Physical Review},
- year = 2025,
- month = apr,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-048}
- }
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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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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"