Yebin Wang

Yebin Wang
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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.

  • Recent News & Events

    •  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 Interaction
      Brief
      • 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.
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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, Robotics
      Abstract
      • Harvesting 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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  • MERL Publications

    •  Tu, H., Wang, Y., Mou, S., Fang, H., "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
      • }
    •  Ma, H., Zhang, T., Li, N., Di Cairano, S., Wang, Y., "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}
      • }
    •  Dai, M., Lu, Z., Li, N., Wang, Y., "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}
      • }
    •  Li, X., Wang, Y., Ozbay, K., Jiang, Z.-P., "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}
      • }
    •  Zheng, D., Wang, Y., Di Cairano, S., Tsiotras, P., "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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  • MERL Issued Patents

    • 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: "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: "Deterministic Path Planning for Controlling Vehicle Movement"
      Inventors: Wang, Yebin
      Patent No.: 10,809,732
      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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