Members
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Heng Wang
Professional appointments:
2021-present, Associate Professor
Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering, South China University of Technology.
Email: wanghengscut@scut.edu.cn
Education:
2016-2021, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
2019-2021, M.Sc., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
2012-2016, B.Sc., School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Dr. Wang’s research interests lie in magnetic navigation of medical robots, which includes magnetic motion tracking and actuation, intra-body pose tracking and shape sensing of minimally invasive medical robots, dexterous manipulation and autonomous navigation of magnetic robots, AI enabled motion planning and navigation of medical robots, medical VR/AR and human-machine interaction, simulation-based design platforms for medical robots. Dr. Wang is a principal investigator of multiple research projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province, and Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau. He has also completed multiple research projects as a major participant funded by US National Science Foundation, University of Minnesota, Case New Holland Inc., and Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Wang received the honor of Editor’s Highlight paper (Best 50 papers) in “Applied Physics and Mathematics” in Nature Communications, Best Application Paper Award in the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence, and the Best Paper Award in 2020 from the DSCD Mechatronics TC of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He received the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from University of Minnesota in 2020. Dr. Wang was granted a US patent and published research papers in renowned journals and conferences such as Nature Communications, TMECH, IEEE Sensors J., MSSP, IEEE Robotics and Automation Lett, ICRA, ACC, etc.
Ph.D Students
Suqi Liu
Email:
wisqliu@mail.scut.edu.cn
Research Interests:
Magnetic Sensing; State Estimation
Jiatao Zheng
Email:
jtzheng_scut@163.com
Research Interests:
Magnetic Navigation Simulation; Medical Robotics
Yuxiang Han
Email:
202320160073@mail.scut.edu.cn
Research Interests:
Magnetic Actuation
Master Students
Shuda Dong
Email:
wishudadong@mail.scut.edu.cn
Research Interests:
Magnetic Tracking; Pose Estimation; State Estimation; Active Sensing
Tao Wen
Email:
witaowen@mail.scut.edu.cn
Research Interests:
Magnetic Sensing; Soft Magnet Localization; Medical Robot Positioning
Junhao Cui
Email:
wijhcui@mail.scut.edu.cn
Research Interests:
Actuation and Control of Soft-Magnet Robot
Haichao Huang
Email:
wihuang_haichao@mail.scut.edu.cn
Research Interests:
Magnetic Field Signal Analysis; Pose Tracking and Shape Sensing of Continuum Robot
Haoyu Song
Email:
202320159929@mail.scut.edu.cn
Research Interests:
Simulation of Magnetic Medical Robots
Dekang Liu
Email:
liu_dekang@qq.com
Research Interests:
Magnetic Tracking; Signal Processing
Kunli Wang
Email:
2339465622@qq.com
Research Interests:
Magnetic Actuation and Navigation
Yifeng Zeng
Email:
1654280015@qq.com
Research Interests:
Design of Magnetic Source and Sensor Coils; Magnetic Tracking System
Yaohao Deng
Email:
2218703094@qq.com
Research Interests:
Magnetic Tracking System
Undergraduate Students
Gongyue Teng
Junxi Zhou
Jiaying Zhuo
Baolin Long
Bixuan Jiang
Yijia Xu
Alumni
- Xinlei Zhang (2021.09-2024.07). He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at North Carolina State University, USA.
- Kuan Tian (2021.09-2023.11). He is currently pursuing a master’s degree at Tsinghua University (Shenzhen).
- Yile Shen (2021.09-2024.06). He is currently pursuing a master’s degree at National University of Singapore.
- Kaixiang Zhang (2022.04 - 2023.6). He is currently pursuing a master’s degree at South China University of Technology.
- Wei Yan (2022.07 - 2023.06). He is currently pursuing a master’s degree at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).
- Jingwen Deng (2022.07 - 2023.06). She is currently pursuing a master’s degree at South China University of Technology.
- Ji’nan Guo (2023.02 - 2023.09). She is currently pursuing a master’s degree at South China University of Technology.
- Xinyi Li (2022.10 - 2023.06). She is currently pursuing a master’s degree at University of Edinburgh, UK.