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32
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5090
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6241
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2058

Overview

Jizhong Xiao is affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States and has an extensive publication record primarily in the fields of Engineering and Earth and Planetary Sciences. The research spans various subfields, including Biomedical Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Geology, and Geophysics.

The main research topics addressed by Xiao encompass:

  • Geophysical Methods and Applications
  • Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
  • 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
  • Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
  • Microwave Imaging and Scattering Analysis
  • Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods
  • Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation

Xiao's frequent collaborators include Jinglun Feng, Ejup Hoxha, Liang Yang, Diar Sanakov, and Ardian Gjinofci, reflecting diverse interdisciplinary efforts.

The scientist's recent publications highlight contributions to inspection technologies and robotic applications in civil engineering contexts, as well as advances in sensing and imaging techniques. Notable papers include:

  • "Concrete defects inspection and 3D mapping using CityFlyer quadrotor robot," 2020, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
  • "Automated wall-climbing robot for concrete construction inspection," 2022, Journal of Field Robotics
  • "Improving 3D Metric GPR Imaging Using Automated Data Collection and Learning-Based Processing," 2022, IEEE Sensors Journal
  • "Robotic Inspection of Underground Utilities for Construction Survey Using a Ground Penetrating Radar," 2022, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
  • "Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation in 3D Graph-Structured Point Clouds of Wild Scenes," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Xiao has published multiple articles in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, Journal of Field Robotics, and IEEE Sensors Journal. The volume of publications is highest with arXiv, indicating an engagement with open access dissemination as well as peer-reviewed journals.

Best Publications

  • Keeping a Good Attitude: A Quaternion-Based Orientation Filter for IMUs and MARGs

    Roberto G. Valenti;Ivan Dryanovski;Jizhong Xiao

  • Survey of Robot 3D Path Planning Algorithms

    Liang Yang;Juntong Qi;Dalei Song;Jizhong Xiao

  • Fast visual odometry and mapping from RGB-D data

    Ivan Dryanovski;Roberto G. Valenti;Jizhong Xiao

  • Vision-Based Mobile Indoor Assistive Navigation Aid for Blind People

    Bing Li;Juan Pablo Munoz;Xuejian Rong;Qingtian Chen

  • Chisel: Real Time Large Scale 3D Reconstruction Onboard a Mobile Device using Spatially Hashed Signed Distance Fields

    Matthew Klingensmith;Ivan Dryanovski;Siddhartha S. Srinivasa;Jizhong Xiao

  • A literature review of UAV 3D path planning

    Liang Yang;Juntong Qi;Jizhong Xiao;Xia Yong

  • A Linear Kalman Filter for MARG Orientation Estimation Using the Algebraic Quaternion Algorithm

    Roberto G. Valenti;Ivan Dryanovski;Jizhong Xiao

  • Climbing the walls [robots]

    R. Lal Tummala;R. Mukherjee;Ning Xi;D. Aslam

  • Path Planning in Complex 3D Environments Using a Probabilistic Roadmap Method

    Fei Yan;Yi-Sha Liu;Ji-Zhong Xiao

  • Multirobot Tree and Graph Exploration

    Peter Brass;Flavio Cabrera-Mora;Andrea Gasparri;Jizhong Xiao

  • Design of Mobile Robots with Wall Climbing Capability

    Jizhong Xiao;A. Sadegh;M. Elliott;A. Calle

  • Multi-volume occupancy grids: An efficient probabilistic 3D mapping model for micro aerial vehicles

    Ivan Dryanovski;William Morris;Jizhong Xiao

  • An Assistive Navigation Framework for the Visually Impaired

    Jizhong Xiao;Samleo L. Joseph;Xiaochen Zhang;Bing Li

  • Modular wall climbing robots with transition capability

    Jizhong Xiao;A. Calle;A. Sadegh;M. Elliott

  • ISANA: Wearable Context-Aware Indoor Assistive Navigation with Obstacle Avoidance for the Blind

    Bing Li;J. Pablo Muñoz;Xuejian Rong;Jizhong Xiao

  • Fuzzy controller for wall-climbing microrobots

    Jun Xiao;J.Z. Xiao;Ning Xi;R.L. Tummala

  • Robust backpropagation training algorithm for multilayered neural tracking controller

    Qing Song;Jizhong Xiao;Yeng Chai Soh

  • An open-source navigation system for micro aerial vehicles

    Ivan Dryanovski;Roberto G. Valenti;Jizhong Xiao

  • City-Climber: A New Generation Wall-Climbing Robots

    Jizhong Xiao;Ali Sadegh

  • Robot Formation Control in Leader-Follower Motion Using Direct Lyapunov Method

    Xiaohai Li;Jizhong Xiao

  • Concrete defects inspection and 3D mapping using CityFlyer quadrotor robot

    Liang Yang;Bing Li;Wei Li;Howard Brand

  • Technical Correspondence An Assistive Navigation Framework for the Visually Impaired

    Jizhong Xiao;Samleo L. Joseph;Xiaochen Zhang;Bing Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Ranjan Mukherjee
Ranjan Mukherjee Michigan State University
Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Siddhartha S. Srinivasa University of Washington
Shuo Wang
Shuo Wang Nankai University
Wen J. Li
Wen J. Li City University of Hong Kong
Yeng Chai Soh
Yeng Chai Soh Nanyang Technological University

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