- Associate Professor
- Phone: 979-845-3435
- Email: mhzheng@tamu.edu
- Office: MEOB 108
- Research Website
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley - 2017
- M.S., Control Science and Engineering, Beihang University - 2011
- B.S., Engineering Mechanics, Beihang University - 2008
Research Interests
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- Human-robot collaboration
- Robotic motion planning
- Task allocation and sequence planning
- Collaborative disassembly, recycling, and remanufacturing
- Learning-based control for heterogenous robots
- Cable-driven robotic hand design and manipulation
- Collaborative estimation using connected vehicles
Awards & Honors
- CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (NSF), 2021
- SEAS Early Career Researcher of the Year, University at Buffalo (UB), 2021
- Exceptional Scholar: Young Investigator Award, University at Buffalo, 2023
Selected Publications
- Lee, Meng-Lun, Xiao Liang, Boyi Hu, Gulcan Onel, Sara Behdad, and Minghui Zheng. "A review of prospects and opportunities in disassembly with human–robot Collaboration." Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering 146, no. 2 (2024).
- Eltouny, Kareem A., Wansong Liu, Sibo Tian, Minghui Zheng, and Xiao Liang. "De-tgn: Uncertainty-aware human motion forecasting using deep ensembles." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2024).
- Liu, Wansong, Xiao Liang, and Minghui Zheng. "Task-constrained motion planning considering uncertainty-informed human motion prediction for human–robot collaborative disassembly." IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2023).
- Lee, Meng-Lun, Sara Behdad, Xiao Liang, and Minghui Zheng. "Task allocation and planning for product disassembly with human–robot collaboration." Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing 76 (2022): 102306.
- Lee, Meng-Lun, Wansong Liu, Sara Behdad, Xiao Liang, and Minghui Zheng. "Robot-assisted disassembly sequence planning with real-time human motion prediction." IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems 53, no. 1 (2022): 438-450.
- Liu, Wansong, Xiao Liang, and Minghui Zheng. "Dynamic model informed human motion prediction based on unscented kalman filter." IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics 27, no. 6 (2022): 5287-5295.
- Sajedi, Seyedomid, Wansong Liu, Kareem Eltouny, Sara Behdad, Minghui Zheng, and Xiao Liang. "Uncertainty-assisted image-processing for human-robot close collaboration." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7, no. 2 (2022): 4236-4243.