Overview Academic/Research Interest Areas

Contact State Space: Automatic Generation, Search, and Motion Planning

Haptic Simulation and Display of Contact States and Compliant Motion

Automatic Contact Recognition in the Presence of Uncertainties

Contact-related Computation in Virtual Environments

Real-time Adaptive Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments with Unforseen Changes

Replanning for Robot Motion in the Presence of Uncertainties

Semantic Video Classification, Indexing, and Retrieval

Cooperative Haptic Manipulation of Virtual Objects

Adaptive Evolutionary Planner/Navigator (EP/N)

Structure Study of Neural Networks for Continuous Function Approximation

Sequencing Optimization

Professional Affiliations

Senior Member of IEEE

Elected member of Administrative Committee of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society,1999-2001

Associate Vice President for Member Activities

Recent Publications

R. Desai, J. Xiao, and R. Volz, "Contact Formations and Design Constraints: A New Basis for the Automatic Generation of Robot Programs," in NATO ASI Series: CAD Based Programming for Sensor Based Robots , (B. Ravani, Editor), Springer-Verlag, pp. 361-395. July 1988.

Lixin Zhang and Jing Xiao, "Derivation of Contact States from Geometric Models of Objects," in the Proceedings of the IEEE Int. Conf. Assembly and Task Planning, Pittsburgh, pp. 375-380, Aug. 1995.

Song You and Jing Xiao, "Haptic Display of Contact States," the 4th World Congress in Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA'02), Shanghai, China, June 2002.

Jing Xiao and Richard A. Volz, "Design and motion constraints of part-mating planning in the presence of uncertainties," In IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, pages 1260-1268, April 1988.
Hoi-Shan Lin, Jing Xiao, and Zbigniew Michalewicz, "Evolutionary Navigator for a Mobile Robot," Proc. 1994 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Diego, pp. 2199-2204, May 1994.

J. Fan, X. Zhu, and J. Xiao, "Content Based Video Indexing and Retrieval," in Computer Graphics and Multimedia: Applications, Problems, and Solutions , J. DiMarco, Editor, Idea Group, Inc., Hershey, PA., 2003.

Educational Background

Ph.D., Computer, Information, and Control Engineering; University of Michigan, 1990