Xinyi Wang

University of Michigan · Robotics Department

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University of Michigan

Robotics Department

FRB, 2505 Hayward St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Tel: (+734) 2775751

E-mail: xinywa@umich.edu

I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Distributed Autonomous Systems and Control (DASC) Lab at the University of Michigan (UMich), directed by Prof. Dimitra Panagou. Prior to this, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in Unmanned Systems Research (USR) Group at Hong Kong Centre For Logistics Robotics (HKCLR), and a Honorary Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) at 2023. I received my Ph.D. degree in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at CUHK in 2023, advised by Professor Ben M. Chen.

Research Interests

My research centers on multi-agent coordination, bridging theory and practice to realize intelligent autonomous systems with provable safety guarantees. My current work includes:

  1. Coverage control in mobile sensor networks

  2. Motion planning in dense, uncertain, and dynamic environments

  3. Safe reinforcement learning for safety-critical systems

  4. Multi-agent pursuit–evasion games

I am actively seeking new job opportunities. Feel free to reach out via email if you’re interested!

news

Jun 2025 Our paper “Safe Navigation in Uncertain Crowded Environments Using Risk Adaptive CVaR Barrier Functions” has been accepted to IROS 2025.
Feb 2025 Our paper “Multi-Constraint Safe Reinforcement Learning via Closed-Form Solution for Log-Sum-Exp Approximation of Control Barrier Functions” has been accepted to the L4DC 2025.
Mar 2024 Our work “Sensor-based Multi-Robot Search and Coverage with Spatial Separation in Unstructured Environments” will be presented at ICRA 2024.

selected publications

  1. IROS
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    Safe Navigation in Uncertain Crowded Environments Using Risk Adaptive CVaR Barrier Functions
    Xinyi Wang, T. Kim, B. Hoxha, G. Fainekos, and D. Panagou
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
  2. ICRA
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    Sensor-based Multi-Robot Coverage Control with Spatial Separation in Unstructured Environments
    Xinyi Wang, J. Xu, C. Gao, Y. Chen, J. Zhang, C. Wang, and B. M. Chen
    In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
  3. TIE
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    Distributed Encirclement and Capture of Multiple Pursuers with Collision Avoidance
    Xinyi Wang, L. Xi, Y. Ding, and B. M. Chen
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2023