Dr Peng Wang
Dr Peng Wang
Lecturer
My profile
Biography
Dr. Peng Wang is a Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. Before that, he worked in the UK, France, and China on a variety of projects. He worked as part of teams to deliver projects funded by EPSRC, UKRI, NSF, NSFC, and EU Horizon 2020. His research focuses on deep learning and Gaussian process in image and time-series data processing, with a specific interest in quantifying the uncertainty of different models; Autonomous driving methods based on LiDAR, computer vision, and GPS, etc., with the purpose of developing trustworthy solutions. Most recently, he has been interested in human-robot collaboration, which is one of the hot-spots and a good combination of his expertise.
Interests and expertise
Autonomy:
- Human-robot Interaction;
- Autonomous Driving in Uncertain Environments;
- Indoor Mobile Robots Navigation;
- LiDAR/IMU/GPS/Computer Vision based SLAM, Localisation, etc.
Sustainability:
- Salable and Trustworthy Machine Learning Models (Gaussian Process, Deep Learning) ;
- Large Scale Traffic Data Forecasting and Urban Air Quality Monitoring.
Manufacturing:
- Digital Twin for Safe Collaborative Manufacturing;
- IoT Solutions for Steel Manufacturing.
Projects
- Constructing accurate 3D human with deep learning in digital twin environments for safe human-robot collaboration, PI, and Ongoing
- If you are interested in being a student RA, please contact me: via [email protected]
- Skills expected: Unity, ROS, Machine learning
- Water/air quality monitoring feasibility study, PI, and ongoing
- If you are interested in being a student RA, please contact me: via [email protected]
- Skills expected: Machine learning
Teaching
MSc - Artificial Intelligence Principles - Semester 1
MSc - Robotic Science and Systems - Semester 2
BSc - Graduate Skills - Semester 1
BSc - Team Project - Semester 2
Courses
Supervision
I accept project students from Undergraduate to Postgraduate across a variety of topics:
1. Robotics (Navigation, localization, object detection, etc.)
2. Human-robot collaboration (Computer vision, natural language processing, etc.)
3. Machine learning (Time series data prediction, image processing)
4. Deep learning (Time series data prediction, image processing)
You can also propose your own topics.
Research outputs
Journal Articles
2021 Wang,P., Mihaylova, L., Chakraborty, R., Munir, S., Mayfield, M., Alam, K., Khokhar, M.F., Zheng, Z., Jiang, C. and Fang, H. “A Gaussian Process Method with Uncertainty Quantification for Air Quality Monitoring.” Atmosphere, 12(10), 1344–1362.
2021 Wang,P., Mihaylova, L., Bonnifait, P., Xu, P. and Jiang, J. “Feature-refined Box Particle Filtering for Autonomous Vehicle Localisation with OpenStreetMap.” EngineeringApplicationsofArtificialIntelligence105, 104445–104458.
2021 Wang,P., Mihaylova, L., Munir, S., Chakraborty, R., Wang, J., Mayfield, M., Alam, K., Khokhar, M.F. and Coca, D. “A Computationally Efficient Symmetric Diagonally Dominant Matrix Projection-based Gaussian Process Approach.” SignalProcessing183, 108034–108047.
2021 Altuwayjiri, A.H., Bloss, W.J., Harrison, R.M., Mihaylova, L., Molina, L.T., Aravena, A.M.O., Pfrang, C., Schauer, J., Slater, J., Srivastava, D., Styring, P., Wallinton, T., Wang, P.and Watson, J. “General Discussion: Trends in Emissions Concentrations. ” FaradayDiscussions226, 100–111.
2021 Bloss, W., Brimblecombe, P., Chen, Y., Coe, H., Gani, S., Gen, M., Grimmond, S., Harrison, R., McFiggans, G., Mihaylova, L., Pfrang, C., Shi, Z., Slater, J., Srivastava, D., Styring, P., Velasco, E., Wang, P.and Yu, J. “General Discussion: Urban Air Quality; Meteorological Influences and Air Quality Trends.” FaradayDiscussions226, 191-206.
2020 Jiang, J., Wang, J., Wang,P., Bao, P. and Chen, Z. “Lipmatch: Lidar Point Cloud Plane Based Loop-closure.” IEEERoboticsandAutomationLetters5(4), 6861-6868.
2020 Wang, J., Wang,P., Dai, D., Xu, M. and Chen, Z. “Regression Forest Based Rgb-d Visual Relocalization Using Coarse-to-fine Strategy.” IEEERoboticsandAutomationLetters5(3), 4431-4438.
2019 Zhang, Q., Wang,P.and Chen, Z. “An Improved Particle Filter for Mobile Robot Localization Based on Particle Swarm Optimization.” ExpertSystemswithApplications135, 181-193.
2019 Kim, Y., Wang, P.and Mihaylova, L. “Scalable Learning with a Structural Recurrent Neural Network for Short-term Traffic Prediction.” IEEESensorsJournal19(23), 11359-11366.
2019 Jiang, J., Wang, J., Wang,P.and Chen, Z. “POU-SLAM: Scan-to-model Matching Based on 3d Voxels.” AppliedSciences9(19), 4147–4161.
2019 Zhang, Q., Wang,P.and Chen, Z. “Mobile Robot Pose Estimation By Qualitative Scan Matching with 2d Range Scans.” JournalofIntelligentFuzzySystems36(4), 3235-3247.
2018 Rehman, S.U., Chen, Z., Raza, M., Wang,P.and Zhang, Q. “Person Re-identification Post-rank Optimization Via Hypergraph-based Learning.” Neurocomputing287, 143-153.
2018 Wang, J., Wang, P.and Chen, Z. “A Novel Qualitative Motion Model Based Probabilistic Indoor Global Localization Method.” InformationSciences429, 284-295.
2018 Raza, M., Chen, Z., Rehman, S., Wang,P.and Wang, J. “Framework for Estimating Distance and Dimension Attributes Of Pedestrians in Real-time Environments Using Monocular Camera.” Neurocomputing275, 533-545.
2018 Raza, M., Chen, Z., Rehman, S., Wang,P.and Bao, P. “Appearance Based Pedestrians’ Head Pose and Body Orientation Estimation Using Deep Learning.” Neurocomputing272, 647-659.
2017 Qu, W., Chen, Z., Wang,P.and Sun, J. “A Grey Qualitative Based Approach for Environmental Information Analysis.” JournalofGreySystem29(2), 1–7.
2017 Zhang, Q., Wang,P.and Chen, Z. “Velocity Space Based Concurrent Obstacle Avoidance and Trajectory Tracking for Mobile Robots.” ControlandDecision32(2), 358-362.
2016 Dong, G., Chen, Z., Wei, J., Zhang, C. and Wang,P.“An Online Model-based Method for State Of Energy Estimation Of Lithium-ion Batteries Using Dual Filters.” JournalofPowerSources301, 277-286.
2015 Wang,P., Zhang, Q. and Chen, Z. “Feature Extension and Matching for Mobile Robot Global Localization.” JournalofSystemsEngineeringandElectronics26(4), 840-846.
2015 Wang,P., Zhang, Q. and Chen, Z. “A Grey Probability Measure Set Based Mobile Robot Position Estimation Algorithm.” InternationalJournalofControl,AutomationandSystems13(4), 978-985.
2015 Wang,P., Li, S., Lv, Y. and Chen, Z. “Grey Qualitative Modeling and Control Method for Subjective Uncertain Systems.” InternationalJournalofAutomationandComputing12(1), 70-76.
2015 Sun, J., Chen, Z., Wang,P., Zhang, Q. and Bao, P. “Multi-region Coverage Method Based on Cost Map and Minimal Tree for Mobile Robot.” Robot37(4), 435-442.
2013 Li, S., Wang,P.and Chen, Z. “Artificial Potential Field Without Traps Based on Gray Qualitative Theory.” ControlandDecision28(6), 879-883.
2012 Li, S., Wang, P.and Chen, Z. “An Environment Model for Mobile Robot: Grey Qualitative Map.” Robot 34(4), 476-484.
Conference Proceedings
2021 Wang, S., Wang,P., Mihaylova, L. and Hill, M. “Real-time Activation Pattern Monitoring and Uncertainty Characterisation in Image Classification.” Proceedingsofthe2021IEEE24thInternationalConferenceonInformationFusion(FUSION). November 2021. 1–7.
2021 Lin, Y., Wang, P., Muroiwa, R., Pike, S. and Mihaylova, L. “Image Fusion for Remote Sizing of Hot High Quality Steel Sections.” Proceedingsofthe2021UKWorkshoponComputational Intelligence.September 2021, 357-368.
2021 Zhu, Y., Wang, P.and Mihaylova, L. “A Convolutional Neural Network Combined with a Gaussian Process for Speed Prediction in Traffic Networks.” Proceedingsofthe2021IEEE InternationalConferenceonMultisensorFusionandIntegrationforIntelligentSystems(MFI). September 2021. 1–7.
2020 Wang, J., Dai, D., Wang,P., Zhao, H., Xu, M. and Chen, Z. “Geometrical Features based Visual Relocalization for Indoor Service Robot.” Proceedingsofthe2020InternationalConferenceonCommunication,ImageandSignalProcessing(CCISP). November 2020, 118–122.
2020 Wang,P., Bouaynaya, N.C., Mihaylova, L., Wang, J., Zhang, Q. and He, R. “Bayesian Neural Networks Uncertainty Quantification with Cubature Rules.” Proceedingsofthe2020InternationalJointConferenceonNeuralNetworks(IJCNN). July 2020. 1–7.
2020 Wang,P., Lin, Y., Muroiwa, R., Pike, S. and Mihaylova, L. “A Weighted Variance Approach for Uncertainty Quantification in High Quality Steel Rolling.” Proceedingsofthe2020IEEEInternationalConferenceonInformationFusion(FUSION). July 2020, 1–7.
2019 Offor, K.J., Wang, P. and Mihaylova, L. “Multi-Model Bayesian Kriging for Urban Traffic State Prediction.” Proceedings of the 2019 Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications (SDF). October 2019. 1–6.
2019 Wang, P., Lin, Y., Muroiwa, R., Pike, S. and Mihaylova, L. “Computer Vision Methods for Automating High Temperature Steel Section Sizing in Thermal Images.” Proceedingsofthe 2019SensorDataFusion: Trends,Solutions,Applications(SDF). October 2019. 1–6.
2019 Kim, Y., Wang, P.and Mihaylova, L. “Structural Recurrent Neural Network for Traffic Speed Prediction.” Proceedingsofthe2019IEEEInternationalConferenceonAcoustics,Speechand SignalProcessing(ICASSP). May 2019. 5207–5211.
2018 Wang, P., Xu, P., Bonnifait, P. and Jiang, J. “Box Particle Filtering for SLAM with Bounded Errors.” Proceedingsofthe2018InternationalConferenceonControl,Automation,Roboticsand Vision(ICARCV)). November 2018, 1032–1038.
2018 Kim, Y., Wang, P., Zhu, Y. and Mihaylova, L. “A Capsule Network for Traffic Speed Prediction in Complex Road Networks.” Proceedingsofthe2018SensorDataFusion:Trends,Solutions,Applications(SDF). October 2018. 1–6.
2018 Wang,P., Kim, Y., Vaci, L., Yang, H. and Mihaylova, L. “Short-term Traffic Prediction with Vicinity Gaussian Process in The Presence Of Missing Data.” Proceedings of the 2018 Sensor Data Fusion:Trends, Solutions, Applications (SDF). October 2018. 1–6.
2017 Zhang, Q., Wang, P., Bao, P. and Chen, Z. “Mobile Robot Global Localization Using Particle Swarm Optimization with a 2D Range Scan.” Proceedingsofthe2017InternationalConferenceonRoboticsandArtificialIntelligence(ICRAI). December 2017. 105–109.
2017 Ge, Z., Wang,P., Wang, J. and Chen, Z. “A 2.5 D Grids Based Moving Detection Methodology for Autonomous Vehicle.” Proceedingsofthe2017InternationalConferenceonRoboticsandAutomationEngineering(ICRAE). December 201, 403-407.
2017 Wang, C., Li, R., Wang,P.and Chen, Z. “Partition Cost-sensitive CART Based on Customer Value for Telecom Customer Churn Prediction.” Proceedingsofthe2017ChineseControlConference(CCC). July 2017. 5680–5684.
2016 Li, R., Wang,P. and Chen, Z. “A Feature Extraction Method Based on Stacked Auto-encoder for Telecom Churn Prediction.” Proceedings of the 2016 Theory, methodology, tools andapplications for modeling and simulation of complex systems. January 2016. 568–576.
2016 Wang,P., Chen, Z., Zhang, Q. and Sun, J. “A Loop Closure Improvement Method Of Gmapping for Low Cost and Resolution Laser Scanner.” IFAC-PapersOnLine.49(12), 168–173.
2013 Wang,P., Zhang, Q. and Chen, Z. “Gray-dynamic EKF for Mobile Robot SLAM in Indoor Environment.” Proceedingsofthe2013IEEEConferenceonRobotics,AutomationandMechatronics(RAM). November 2013. 43-48.
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Journal articles
Zeb, B., Alam, K., Huang, Z., Öztürk, F., Wang, P., Mihaylova, L., Khokhar, M.F., Munir, S. (2024) 'In-depth characterization of particulate matter in a highly polluted urban environment at the foothills of Himalaya–Karakorum Region.' Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 31(24) pp. 35705-35726.
Wang, S., Zhang, J., Wang, P., Law, J., Calinescu, R., Mihaylova, L. (2024) 'A deep learning-enhanced Digital Twin framework for improving safety and reliability in human–robot collaborative manufacturing.' Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 85
Lin, Y., Wang, P., Wang, Z., Ali, S., Mihaylova, L. (2023) 'Towards automated remote sizing and hot steel manufacturing with image registration and fusion.' Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing,
Lin, Y., Wang, P., Wang, Z., Ali, S., Mihaylova, L. (2023) 'Correction: Towards automated remote sizing and hot steel manufacturing with image registration and fusion (Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, (2023), 10.1007/s10845-023-02251-9).' Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing,
Ahmad, M., Hussain, K., Nasir, J., Huang, Z., Alam, K., Liaquat, S., Wang, P., Hussain, W., Mihaylova, L., Ali, A., Farhan, S.B. (2022) 'Air Quality Assessment along China-Pakistan Economic Corridor at the Confluence of Himalaya-Karakoram-Hindukush.' Atmosphere, 13(12)
Wang, P., Mihaylova, L., Chakraborty, R., Munir, S., Mayfield, M., Alam, K., Khokhar, M.F., Zheng, Z., Jiang, C., Fang, H. (2021) 'A gaussian process method with uncertainty quantification for air quality monitoring.' Atmosphere, 12(10)
Wang, P., Mihaylova, L., Bonnifait, P., Xu, P., Jiang, J. (2021) 'Feature-refined box particle filtering for autonomous vehicle localisation with OpenStreetMap.' Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 105
Wang, P., Mihaylova, L., Munir, S., Chakraborty, R., Wang, J., Mayfield, M., Alam, K., Khokhar, M.F., Coca, D. (2021) 'A computationally efficient symmetric diagonally dominant matrix projection-based Gaussian process approach.' Signal Processing, 183
Jiang, J., Wang, J., Wang, P., Bao, P., Chen, Z. (2020) 'LiPMatch: LiDAR Point Cloud Plane Based Loop-Closure.' IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5(4) pp. 6861-6868.
Wang, J., Wang, P., Dai, D., Xu, M., Chen, Z. (2020) 'Regression Forest Based RGB-D Visual Relocalization Using Coarse-to-Fine Strategy.' IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5(3) pp. 4431-4438.
Kim, Y., Wang, P., Mihaylova, L. (2019) 'Scalable Learning with a Structural Recurrent Neural Network for Short-Term Traffic Prediction.' IEEE Sensors Journal, 19(23) pp. 11359-11366.
Zhang, Q.B., Wang, P., Chen, Z.H. (2019) 'An improved particle filter for mobile robot localization based on particle swarm optimization.' Expert Systems with Applications, 135pp. 181-193.
Jiang, J., Wang, J., Wang, P., Chen, Z. (2019) 'POU-SLAM: Scan-to-model matching based on 3D voxels.' Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 9(19)
Zhang, Q., Wang, P., Chen, Z. (2019) 'Mobile robot pose estimation by qualitative scan matching with 2d range scans.' Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, 36(4) pp. 3235-3247.
Rehman, S.U., Chen, Z., Raza, M., Wang, P., Zhang, Q. (2018) 'Person re-identification post-rank optimization via hypergraph-based learning.' Neurocomputing, 287pp. 143-153.
Wang, J., Wang, P., Chen, Z. (2018) 'A novel qualitative motion model based probabilistic indoor global localization method.' Information Sciences, 429pp. 284-295.
Raza, M., Chen, Z., Ur Rehman, S., Wang, P., Wang, J.K. (2018) 'Framework for estimating distance and dimension attributes of pedestrians in real-time environments using monocular camera.' Neurocomputing, 275pp. 533-545.
Raza, M., Chen, Z., Rehman, S.U., Wang, P., Bao, P. (2018) 'Appearance based pedestrians’ head pose and body orientation estimation using deep learning.' Neurocomputing, 272pp. 647-659.
Xu, Z., Wang, P., Chen, Z. (2017) 'A two-stage feature selection method based on Fisher’s ratio and prediction risk for telecom customer churn prediction.' Journal of University of Science and Technology of China, 47(8) pp. 686-694.
Zhang, Q.B., Wang, P., Chen, Z.H. (2017) 'Velocity space based concurrent obstacle avoidance and trajectory tracking for mobile robots.' Kongzhi yu Juece/Control and Decision, 32(2) pp. 358-362.
Qu, W., Chen, Z., Wang, P., Sun, J. (2017) 'A grey qualitative based approach for environmental information analysis.' Journal of Grey System, 29(2) pp. 1-13.
Dong, G., Chen, Z., Wei, J., Zhang, C., Wang, P. (2016) 'An online model-based method for state of energy estimation of lithium-ion batteries using dual filters.' Journal of Power Sources, 301pp. 277-286.
Wang, P., Zhang, Q.B., Chen, Z.H. (2015) 'A grey probability measure set based mobile robot position estimation algorithm.' International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, 13(4) pp. 978-985.
Sun, J., Chen, Z., Wang, P., Zhang, Q., Bao, P. (2015) 'Multi-region coverage method based on cost map and minimal tree for mobile robot.' Jiqiren/Robot, 37(4) pp. 435-442.
Wang, P., Li, S.J., Lv, Y., Chen, Z.H. (2015) 'Grey qualitative modeling and control method for subjective uncertain systems.' International Journal of Automation and Computing, 12(1) pp. 70-76.
Sun, J., Wang, P., Chen, Z. (2015) 'Adaptive Hough transform based on sample distributions.' Journal of University of Science and Technology of China, 45(1) pp. 48-55.
Li, S.J., Wang, P., Chen, Z.H. (2013) 'Artificial potential field without traps based on grey qualitative theory.' Kongzhi yu Juece/Control and Decision, 28(6) pp. 879-883.
Li, S., Wang, P., Chen, Z. (2012) 'An environment model for mobile robot: Grey qualitative map.' Jiqiren/Robot, 34(4) pp. 476-484.
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Conference papers
Carr, C., Wang, P., Wang, S. (2024) 'A Human-friendly Verbal Communication Platform for Multi-Robot Systems: Design and Principles.'
Zhu, Y., Wang, P., Mihaylova, L. (2021) 'A Convolutional Neural Network Combined with a Gaussian Process for Speed Prediction in Traffic Networks.'
Wang, S., Wang, P., Mihaylova, L., Hill, M. (2021) 'Real-time Activation Pattern Monitoring and Uncertainty Characterisation in Image Classification.'
Wang, J., Dai, D., Wang, P., Zhao, H., Xu, M., Chen, Z. (2020) 'Geometrical Features based Visual Relocalization for Indoor Service Robot.' pp. 118-122.
Wang, P., Lin, Y., Muroiwa, R., Pike, S., Mihaylova, L. (2020) 'A weighted variance approach for uncertainty quantification in high quality steel rolling.'
Wang, P., Bouaynaya, N.C., Mihaylova, L., Wang, J., Zhang, Q., He, R. (2020) 'Bayesian Neural Networks Uncertainty Quantification with Cubature Rules.'
Wang, P., Lin, Y., Muroiwa, R., Pike, S., Mihaylova, L. (2019) 'Computer Vision Methods for Automating High Temperature Steel Section Sizing in Thermal Images.'
Offor, K.J., Wang, P., Mihaylova, L. (2019) 'Multi-Model Bayesian Kriging for Urban Traffic State Prediction.'
Kim, Y., Wang, P., Mihaylova, L. (2019) 'Structural Recurrent Neural Network for Traffic Speed Prediction.' 2019-May. pp. 5207-5211.
Wang, P., Xu, P., Bonnifait, P., Jiang, J. (2018) 'Box Particle Filtering for SLAM with Bounded Errors.' pp. 1032-1038.
Kim, Y., Wang, P., Zhu, Y., Mihaylova, L. (2018) 'A Capsule Network for Traffic Speed Prediction in Complex Road Networks.'
Wang, P., Kim, Y., Vaci, L., Yang, H., Mihaylova, L. (2018) 'Short-Term Traffic Prediction with Vicinity Gaussian Process in the Presence of Missing Data.'
Zhang, Q., Wang, P., Bao, P., Chen, Z. (2017) 'Mobile robot global localization using particle swarm optimization with a 2D range scan.' pp. 105-109.
Wang, C., Li, R., Wang, P., Chen, Z. (2017) 'Partition cost-sensitive CART based on customer value for Telecom customer churn prediction.' pp. 5680-5684.
Ge, Z., Wang, P., Wang, J., Chen, Z. (2017) 'A 2.5D grids based moving detection methodology for autonomous vehicle.' 2017-December. pp. 403-407.
Wang, P., Chen, Z., Zhang, Q., Sun, J. (2016) 'A loop closure improvement method of Gmapping for low cost and resolution laser scanner.' 49. pp. 168-173.
Li, R., Wang, P., Chen, Z. (2016) 'A feature extraction method based on stacked auto-encoder for telecom churn prediction.' 643. pp. 568-576.
Wang, P., Zhang, Q., Chen, Z. (2013) 'Gray-dynamic EKF for mobile robot SLAM in indoor environment.' pp. 43-48.
Career history
2021 -
Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK.
Lecturer, Department of Computing and mathematics.
2018-2021
The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering.
2017-2018
The University of Technology of Compiègne, Compiègne, France.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Heuristics and Diagnosis of Complex Systems (Heudiasyc).
2015-2016
United Laboratory between the University of Science and Technology of China and E-THINK, Hefei, China
Deputy Director, University of Science and Technology of China.