Research

School

School of Automation

Title

Professor, PhD supervisor

Research Interests

Autonomous Systems/Unmanned Rotorcraft/Vision Technology/3D Simulation

Home Page

http://automation.gdut.edu.cn/listContent.jsp?urltype=news.NewsContentUrl&wbtreeid=1094&wbnewsid=5724

Contacts

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Personal Introduction

Dr. Meng is the professor and PhD supervisor of School of Automation. He is also the member of IEEE, and the associate editor of Unmanned Systems. He obtained his PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2013. He was employed in Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore as a Research Scientist from 2012-2017. Since January, 2018, Meng has been with GDUT as a Distinguished Professor of Hundred Talents Plan. His main research direction is Autonomous Systems, including micro aerial vehicles (MAVs), vision technologies, localization and tracking, etc. He has published more than 50 papers. Until now, he was funded more than 10 projects, inculding two NSFC, Defence research project of Singapore.

Education

2002-2006 Northeastern University, Automation Engineering, Bachelor Degree of Engineering

2006-2008 Northeastern University, Pattern recognition and intelligent system, Master’s Degree of Engineering

2009-2013 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Doctoral Degree of Philosophy

Work Experience

2013-2017 Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore (Research Scientist A)

2018-present Guangdong University of Technology, School of Automation

Part-time Academic Job

Main Honors

Main Achievements

[1].H. Qin, Z. Meng, W. Meng*, X. Chen, H. Sun, F. Lin, Marcelo. Ang, "Autonomous Exploration and Mapping System Using Heterogeneous UAVs and UGVs in GPS-Denied Environments," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 1339-1350, 2019.

[2].W. Cui, L. Zhang, B. Li, W. Meng, L. Xie, "Received-signal-strength based indoor positioning using random vector functional link network, " IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 1846-1855, 2018.

[3].W. Meng, Z. He, R. Su, P. Yadav, R. Teo, L. Xie, "Decentralized Multi-UAV Flight Autonomy for Moving Convoys Search and Track," IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 1480-1487, 2017.

[4].W. Meng, L. Xie, and W. Xiao, "Optimal TDOA sensor-pair placement with uncertainty in source location," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 65, no. 11, pp. 9260 – 9271, 2016.

[5].W. Meng, L. Xie, and W. Xiao, "Communication Aware Optimal Sensor Motion Coordination for Source Localization and Tracking," IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 65, no. 11, pp. 2505-2514, 2016.

[6].W. Cui, C. Wu, W. Meng*, L. Xie, "Dynamic multidimensional scaling algorithm for 3D mobile localization, " IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 65, no. 12, pp. 2853-2865, 2016.

[7].Y. Hu, W. Meng*, "ROSUnitySim: Development and experimentation of a real-time simulator for multi-UAV local planning, " Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, vol. 92, no. 10, pp. 931-944, 2016.

[8].W. Meng, L. Xie, and W. Xiao, "Optimality analysis of sensor-source geometries in heterogeneous sensor networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 1958-1967, 2013.

[9].W. Meng, W. Xiao, and L. Xie, "An efficient EM algorithm for energy based multi-source localization in wireless sensor networks," IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 1017-1027, 2011.

[10].W. Meng, L. Xie, and W. Xiao, "Decentralized TDOA sensor pairing in multi-hop sensor networks," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 181-184, 2013.

Main Projects

(1) Fully autonomous MAV forest search and cooperative localization, National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC 61803105. (2) Security issues related to big data in industry NSFC U1911401. (3) National Youth special program.

Research Team

Meng'team consisits of 2 Ph.Ds. 15 postgraduates and 4 undergraduates./ Students with related majors are weclome to join us.