Publications

2026

• Dylan Shim and Minghan Wei. “Constraint-aware Path Planning from Natural Language Instructions Using Large Language Models.”
  Machine Learning from Challenging Data 2026, SPIE, Vol. 14030, 2026.

• Minghao Yu, et al. “Physics-Guided Transfer Learning for Predicting Dissolved Oxygen in Smart Aquaculture Farms.”
  IET Cyber-Systems and Robotics 8, no. 1, 2026: e70053.

• Jerry Gambrell, Shuaib Olanrewaju, and Minghan Wei. “Unblocking the Path: VLM-Assisted Robot Navigation in Indoor Environments.”
  CVPR 2026 Workshop on Deployment of Foundation Models for Embodied AI, 2026.

2025

• Howlader Rakib, Weibo Liu, Ming Ye, Minghan Wei, Marjena Beantha Haque, and Xiaolang Zhang. “Systematic Quantification of Nearshore and Offshore Submarine Groundwater Discharge along Florida Coasts.”
  Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 130, no. 7, 2025.

2024

• Wen-Chung Cheng, Zhen Ni, Xiangnan Zhong, and Minghan Wei. “Autonomous Robot Goal Seeking and Collision Avoidance in the Physical World: An Automated Learning and Evaluation Framework Based on the PPO Method.”
  Applied Sciences 14, no. 23, 2024.

2023

• Cheng Peng, Minghan Wei, and Volkan Isler. “Stochastic Travelling Salesperson Problem with Neighborhoods for Object Detections.”
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023.

2021

• Minghan Wei and Volkan Isler. “Predicting Energy Consumption of Ground Robots on General Terrains.”
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2021.

• Minghan Wei, Daewon Lee, Volkan Isler, and Daniel D. Lee. “Occupancy Map Inpainting for Online Robot Navigation.”
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021.

2020

• Minghan Wei and Volkan Isler. “Building Energy-Cost Map from Aerial Images and Ground Robot Measurements with Semi-Supervised Deep Learning.”
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020.

2019

• Minghan Wei and Volkan Isler. “Energy-Efficient Path Planning for Ground Robots by Combining Air and Ground Measurements.”
  Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2019.

• Minghan Wei and Volkan Isler. “Air-to-Ground Collaboration for Energy-Efficient Path Planning for Ground Robots.”
  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019.

2018

• Minghan Wei and Volkan Isler. “A Log-Approximation for Coverage Path Planning with the Energy Constraint.”
  International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2018.

• Minghan Wei and Volkan Isler. “Coverage Path Planning under the Energy Constraint.”
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018.

Patents

• Minghan Wei, Daewon Lee, Volkan Isler, and Daniel D. Lee. “Method of Predicting Occupancy of Unseen Areas for Path Planning, Associated Device, and Network Training Method.”
  U.S. Patent Application No. 17/131,194.