Yebin Wang

- Phone: 617-621-7571
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Position:
Research / Technical Staff
Senior Principal Research Scientist,
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 researchers present 10 papers at the American Control Conference (ACC) Date: May 31, 2023 - June 2, 2023
Where: San Diego, CA
MERL Contacts: Karl Berntorp; Ankush Chakrabarty; Vedang M. Deshpande; Stefano Di Cairano; Marcus Greiff; Devesh K. Jha; Christopher R. Laughman; Marcel Menner; Rien Quirynen; Arvind Raghunathan; Diego Romeres; Abraham P. Vinod; Yebin Wang; Avishai Weiss
Research Areas: Control, Machine Learning, OptimizationBrief- MERL will present 10 papers at the American Control Conference (ACC) in San Diego, CA, with topics including autonomous-vehicle decision making and control, physics-informed machine learning, motion planning, control subject to nonconvex chance constraints, and optimal power management. Two talks are part of tutorial sessions.
MERL will also be present at the conference as a sponsor, with a booth for discussing with researchers and students, and hosting a special session at lunch with highlights of MERL research and work philosophy.
- MERL will present 10 papers at the American Control Conference (ACC) in San Diego, CA, with topics including autonomous-vehicle decision making and control, physics-informed machine learning, motion planning, control subject to nonconvex chance constraints, and optimal power management. Two talks are part of tutorial sessions.
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NEWS Yebin Wang delivered an invited industry talk at the 1st IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Annual On-Line Conference Date: December 9, 2022 - December 11, 2022
MERL Contact: Yebin Wang
Research Areas: Communications, Control, OptimizationBrief- Future factory, in the era of industry 4.0, is characterized by autonomy, digital twin, and mass customization. This talk, titled "Future factory automation and cyber-physical system: an industrial perspective," focuses on tackling the challenges arising from mass customization, for example reconfigurable machine controller and material flow.
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MERL Publications
- "Integral Action NMPC for Tight Maneuvers of Articulated Vehicles", American Control Conference (ACC), May 2023.BibTeX TR2023-058 PDF
- @inproceedings{You2023may,
- author = {You, Sixiong and Greiff, Marcus and Quirynen, Rien and Ran, Shuangxuan and Wang, Yebin and Berntorp, Karl and Dai, Ran and Di Cairano, Stefano},
- title = {Integral Action NMPC for Tight Maneuvers of Articulated Vehicles},
- booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
- year = 2023,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-058}
- }
, - "Distributed Optimal Power Management for Battery Energy Storage Systems: A Novel Accelerated Tracking ADMM Approach", American Control Conference (ACC), May 2023.BibTeX TR2023-054 PDF
- @inproceedings{Farakhor2023may,
- author = {Farakhor, Amir and Wang, Yebin and Wu, Di and Fang, Huazhen},
- title = {Distributed Optimal Power Management for Battery Energy Storage Systems: A Novel Accelerated Tracking ADMM Approach},
- booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
- year = 2023,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-054}
- }
, - "Broken-bar Fault Detection by Injecting a Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave Signal", IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC), May 2023.BibTeX TR2023-039 PDF
- @inproceedings{Liu2023may,
- author = {Liu, Dehong and Varatharajan, Anantaram and Goldsmith, Abraham and Kong, Chuizheng and Sigatapu, Laxman and Wang, Yebin},
- title = {Broken-bar Fault Detection by Injecting a Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave Signal},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC)},
- year = 2023,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-039}
- }
, - "Flying Start of Sensorless Synchronous Machines with Reactive Power Injection", IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC), May 2023.BibTeX TR2023-037 PDF
- @inproceedings{Anantaram2023may,
- author = {Anantaram, Varatharajan and Goldsmith, Abraham and Wang, Yebin},
- title = {Flying Start of Sensorless Synchronous Machines with Reactive Power Injection},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC)},
- year = 2023,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-037}
- }
, - "Sensorless Control of Synchronous Machines with DC-Link Voltage Immunity and Adaptation", IEEE Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems, DOI: 10.1109/PEDES56012.2022.10080212, December 2022.BibTeX TR2022-165 PDF
- @inproceedings{Anantaram2022dec,
- author = {Anantaram, Varatharajan and Wang, Yebin},
- title = {Sensorless Control of Synchronous Machines with DC-Link Voltage Immunity and Adaptation},
- booktitle = {IEEE Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems},
- year = 2022,
- month = dec,
- doi = {10.1109/PEDES56012.2022.10080212},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-165}
- }
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- "Integral Action NMPC for Tight Maneuvers of Articulated Vehicles", American Control Conference (ACC), May 2023.
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MERL Issued Patents
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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: "Multi-Layer Axial and Radial flux Vernier Permanent Magnet Motor"