Publications

Conference and Journal Publications

• Cheng, Wen-Chung, Zhen Ni, Xiangnan Zhong, and Minghan Wei. “Autonomous Robot Goal Seeking and Collision Avoidance in the Physical World: An Automated Learning and Evaluation Framework Based on the PPO Method”.
  Applied Sciences 14, no. 23, 2024.
• Cheng Peng, Minghan Wei, and Volkan Isler. “Stochastic Travelling Salesperson Problem with Neighborhoods for Object Detections”.
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023.
• Minghan Wei, Volkan Isler. Predicting Energy Consumption of Ground Robots on General Terrains.
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2021. [paper]
• M. Wei, D. Lee, V. Isler, and Daniel. D. Lee. Occupancy Map Inpainting for Online Robot Navigation.
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021.
• Minghan Wei, Volkan Isler. Building Energy-Cost Map from Aerial Images and Ground Robot Measurements with Semi-supervised Deep Learning.
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020. [paper]
• Minghan Wei, Volkan Isler. Energy-efficient Path Planning for Ground Robots by Combining Air and Ground Measurements.
  Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2019. [paper]
• Minghan Wei, Volkan Isler. Air To Ground Collaboration for Energy-efficient Path Planning for Ground Robots.
  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019. [paper]
• Minghan Wei, Volkan Isler. A Log-Approximation for Coverage Path Planning with the Energy Constraint.
  International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2018. [paper]
• Minghan Wei, Volkan Isler. Coverage Path Planning under the Energy Constraint.
  International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018. [paper]

Patents

• M. Wei, D. Lee, V. Isler, and Daniel. D. Lee.
  Method of predicting occupancy of unseen areas for path planning, associated device, and network training method.
  U.S. Patent Application No. 17/131,194 .[patent]