Chao Jiang

Chao Jiang

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Area of Expertise

Dr. Chao Jiang’s research interests include autonomous robots, human-robot interaction, robotic learning, deep reinforcement learning, optimal control, and cooperative control of multi-robot systems.

 

Selected Publications

Journal papers

• C. Jiang, Z. Ni, Y. Guo and H. He, "Pedestrian flow optimization to reduce crowd accidents through human-robot interaction," IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, (2019), DOI: 10.1109/TETCI.2019.2930249
• C. Jiang, Z. Ni, Y. Guo and H. He, "Learning human-robot interaction for robot-assisted pedestrian flow optimization," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 797-813, 2019.
• C. Jiang, M. Fahad, Y. Guo and Y. Chen, "Robot-assisted smartphone localization for human indoor tracking," Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 106, pp. 82-94, 2018.
• Z. Wan, C. Jiang, M. Fahad, Z. Ni, H. He and Y. Guo, "Robot-assisted pedestrian regulation based on deep reinforcement learning," IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, (2018), DOI:10.1109/TCYB.2018.2878977.
• B. Tang, C. Jiang, H. He and Y. Guo, "Human mobility modeling for robot-assisted evacuation in complex indoor environments," IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 694-707, 2016.

Peer-reviewed conference papers

• C. Jiang, Z. Ni, Y. Guo and H. He, "Optimization of merging pedestrian flow based on adaptive dynamic programming," in American Control Conference (ACC), Philadelphia, PA, pp. 2626-2632, 2019.
• C. Jiang, Z. Chen and Y. Guo, "Learning decentralized control policies for multi-robot formation," in IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Hong Kong, pp. 758-765, 2019.
• Z. Chen, C. Jiang and Yi Guo, "Pedestrian-robot interaction experiments in an exit corridor," in International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), Honolulu, HI, pp. 26-30, 2018.
• C. Jiang, Z. Ni, Y. Guo and H. He, "Robot-assisted pedestrian regulation in an exit corridor," in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Daejeon, 2016, pp. 815-822.
• B. Tang, C. Jiang, H. He and Y. Guo, "Probabilistic human mobility model in indoor environment," in International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Vancouver, BC, 2016, pp. 1601-1608.

C. Jiang, M. Fahad, Y. Guo, J. Yang and Y. Chen, "Robot-assisted human indoor localization using the Kinect sensor and smartphones," in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Chicago, IL, 2014, pp. 4083-4089.

Honors and Awards

Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Electrical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2019

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Doctoral Fellowship, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2012 - 2016

Outstanding Research Assistant Award, Dept. of ECE, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2016

Travel Grants Award, American Control Conference, 2019

Travel Grants Award, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2014