Yebin Wang
- Phone: 617-621-7571
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Position:
Research / Technical Staff
Senior Principal Research Scientist,
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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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TALK [MERL Seminar Series 2024] Na Li presents talk titled Close the Loop: From Data to Actions in Complex Systems Date & Time: Wednesday, April 10, 2024; 12:00 PM
Speaker: Na Li, Harvard University
MERL Host: Yebin Wang
Research Areas: Control, Dynamical Systems, Machine LearningAbstract- The explosive growth of machine learning and data-driven methodologies have revolutionized numerous fields. Yet, translating these successes to the domain of dynamical, physical systems remains a significant challenge, hindered by the complex and often unpredictable nature of such environments. Closing the loop from data to actions in these systems faces many difficulties, stemming from the need for sample efficiency and computational feasibility amidst intricate dynamics, along with many other requirements such as verifiability, robustness, and safety. In this talk, we bridge this gap by introducing innovative approaches that harness representation-based methods, domain knowledge, and the physical structures of systems. We present a comprehensive framework that integrates these components to develop reinforcement learning and control strategies that are not only tailored for the complexities of physical systems but also achieve efficiency, safety, and robustness with provable performance.
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TALK [MERL Seminar Series 2023] Prof. Shaoshuai Mou presents talk titled Inverse Optimal Control for Autonomous Systems Date & Time: Tuesday, October 10, 2023; 1:00 PM
Speaker: Shaoshuai Mou, Purdue University
MERL Host: Yebin Wang
Research Areas: Control, Dynamical Systems, RoboticsAbstract- Inverse Optimal Control (IOC) aims to achieve an objective function corresponding to a certain task from an expert robot driven by optimal control, which has become a powerful tool in many applications in robotics. We will present our recent solutions to IOC based on incomplete observations of systems' trajectories, which enables an autonomous system to “sense-and-adapt", i.e., incrementally improving the learning of objective functions as new data arrives. This also leads to a distributed algorithm to solve IOC in multi-agent systems, in which each agent can only access part of the overall trajectory of an optimal control system and cannot solve IOC by itself. This is perhaps the first distributed method to IOC. Applications of IOC into human prediction will also be given.
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MERL Publications
- "A Differentiable Dynamic Modeling Approach to Integrated Motion Planning and Actuator Physical Design for Mobile Manipulators", arXiv, May 2024. ,
- "Integrated Optimal Control for Fast Charging and Active Thermal Management of Lithium-Ion Batteries in Extreme Ambient Temperatures", arXiv, April 2024.BibTeX arXiv
- @article{Lu2024apr,
- author = {Lu, Zehui and Tu, Hao and Fang, Huazhen and Wang, Yebin and Mou, Shaoshuai},
- title = {Integrated Optimal Control for Fast Charging and Active Thermal Management of Lithium-Ion Batteries in Extreme Ambient Temperatures},
- journal = {arXiv},
- year = 2024,
- month = apr,
- url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04358}
- }
, - "Hierarchical planning for autonomous parking in dynamic environments", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2024.3367468, March 2024.BibTeX TR2024-034 PDF
- @article{Wang2024mar2,
- author = {Wang, Yebin and Hansen, Emma and Ahn, Heejin},
- title = {Hierarchical planning for autonomous parking in dynamic environments},
- journal = {IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology},
- year = 2024,
- month = mar,
- doi = {10.1109/TCST.2024.3367468},
- issn = {1558-0865},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-034}
- }
, - "iPolicy: Incremental Policy Algorithms for Feedback Motion Planning", arXiv, January 2024. ,
- "Scalable Optimal Power Management for Large-Scale Battery Energy Storage Systems", IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, DOI: 10.1109/TTE.2023.3331243, November 2023.BibTeX TR2023-137 PDF
- @article{Farakhor2023nov,
- author = {Farakhor, Amir and Wu, Di and Wang, Yebin and Fang, Huazhen},
- title = {Scalable Optimal Power Management for Large-Scale Battery Energy Storage Systems},
- journal = {IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification},
- year = 2023,
- month = nov,
- doi = {10.1109/TTE.2023.3331243},
- issn = {2332-7782},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-137}
- }
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Videos
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MERL Issued Patents
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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: "Autonomous Parking with Hybrid Exploration of Parking Space"