People
Ben M. CHEN 陳本美
Professor, Department Chairman and Graduate Division Head
bmchen@cuhk.edu.hk
TEL: 852 - 3943 8054
Room 311, William M.W. Mong Engineering Building
http://www.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/~bmchen

Ben M. Chen is currently a Professor and Department Chairman of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Before joining CUHK in 2018, he was a Provost’s Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore, where had worked for 25 years. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA, in 1992–1993, and was a Software Engineer at South China Computer Corporation, China, 1983–1986. His current research interests are in unmanned systems and their applications.

Professor Chen is an IEEE Fellow and Fellow of Academy of Engineering, Singapore. He has authored/co-authored hundreds of journal and conference articles, and ten research monographs in control theory and applications, unmanned systems and financial market modeling. He has served on the editorial boards of a dozen international journals including Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He is currently serving as an Editor-in-Chief of Unmanned Systems.

Research Interests
  • Autonomous Unmanned Systems
  • Digital Twins
  • Applications to Smart Environments
Projects
  • Onboard 3D Navigation System for UAVs in Unknown and Realistic Indoor Environments
  • Navigation and Control of MAVs in Indoor and Outdoor Cluttered Environments
  • Fruit Dove UAV Control
  • Optimal Coverage and Surveillance Using Cooperative Planning and Control of UAVs
  • Investigation of Navigation Systems for UAVs in Outdoor Cluttered Environments
Teaching
2020/2021
ENGG2720 Complex Variables for Engineers
2019/2020
ENGG2420 Complex Analysis & Differential Equations for Engineers
ENGG5403 Linear System Theory & Design
2018/2019
ENGG2420 Complex Analysis & Differential Equations for Engineers
MAEG5403 Linear System Theory & Design
Publications

Monographs

  1. X. Zheng and B. M. Chen, Stock Market Modeling and Forecasting: A System Adaptation Approach, Springer, New York, 2013 (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences).
  2. G. Cai, B. M. Chen, T. H. Lee and B. Wang, Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems, Tsinghua University Press, Beijing, 2012 (Chinese Edition).
  3. G. Cai, B. M. Chen and T. H. Lee, Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems, Springer, New York, 2011 (Advances in Industrial Control Series).
  4. B. M. Chen and B. Xi, H∞ Control and Its Applications, Science Press, Beijing, 2010 (Systems and Control Series, Chinese Edition).
  5. B. M. Chen, Z. Lin and Y. Shamash, Linear Systems Theory: A Structural Decomposition Approach, Tsinghua University Press, Beijing, 2008 (Chinese Edition).
  6. B. M. Chen, T. H. Lee, K. Peng and V. Venkataramanan, Hard Disk Drive Servo Systems, 2nd Edition, Springer, New York, 2006 (Advances in Industrial Control Series).
  7. C. C. Ko, B. M. Chen and J. Chen, Creating Web-based Laboratories, Springer, New York, 2004 (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing Series).
  8. B. M. Chen, Z. Lin and Y. Shamash, Linear Systems Theory: A Structural Decomposition Approach, Birkhauser, Boston, 2004 (Control Engineering Series).
  9. B. M. Chen, T. H. Lee and V. Venkataramanan, Hard Disk Drive Servo Systems, Springer, New York, 2002 (Advances in Industrial Control Series).
  10. B. M. Chen, Robust and H∞ Control, Springer, London, 2000 (Communications and Control Engineering Series).
  11. B. M. Chen, H∞ Control and Its Applications, Springer, New York, 1998 (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences).
  12. Saberi, P. Sannuti and B. M. Chen, H2 Optimal Control, Prentice Hall, London, 1995 (Systems and Control Engineering Series).
  13. Saberi, B. M. Chen and P. Sannuti, Loop Transfer Recovery: Analysis and Design, Springer, London, 1993 (Communications and Control Engineering Series).

Textbook

  1. C. C. Ko and B. M. Chen, Basic Circuit Analysis for Electrical Engineering, Prentice Hall Asia, Singapore, 1st Edition, 1996; 2nd Edition, 1998.

Selected Recent Journal Publications

  1. G. Yang, X. Zhou, C. Gao, X. Chen and B. M. Chen, Learnable cost metric based multi-view stereo for point cloud reconstruction, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 71, No. 9, pp. 11519–11528, September 2024.
  2. X. Zhou, G. Yang, Y. Chen, L. Li and B. M. Chen, VDTNet: A high-performance visual network for detecting and tracking of intruding drones, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 25, No. 8, pp. 9828–9839, August 2024.
  3. B. Zhao, X. Zhou, G. Yang, J. Wen, J. Zhang, J. Dou, G. Li, X. Chen and B. M. Chen, High-resolution infrastructure defect detection dataset sourced by unmanned systems and validated with deep learning approaches, Automation in Construction, Vol. 163, Article Number 105405, July 2024.
  4. X. Wang, L. Xi, Y. Ding, and B. M. Chen, Distributed encirclement and capture of multiple pursuers with collision avoidance, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 71, No. 7, pp. 7520–7530, July 2024.
  5. P. Zhou and B. M. Chen, Distributed optimal solutions for multiagent pursuit-evasion games for capture and formation control, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 71, No. 5, pp. 5224–5234, May 2024.
  6. C. Gao, X. Wang, X. Chen and B. M. Chen, A hierarchical multi-UAV cooperative framework for infrastructure inspection and reconstruction, Control Theory and Technology, Vol. 22, pp. 394–405, March 2024.
  7. J. Wen, J. Cui, G. Yang, B. Zhao, Y. Zhai, Z. Gao, L. Dou and B. M. Chen, WaterFormer: Global-local transformer for underwater image enhancement with environment adaptor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 29–40, March 2024.
  8. Z. Lin, Z. Gao, B. M. Chen, J. Chen and C. Li, Accurate LiDAR-camera fused odometry and true-color mapping, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 2495–2502, March 2024.
  9. X. Liu, M. Dou, R. Yan, D. Huang, S. Gao, B. Wang, J. Cui, Q. Ren, L. Dou, Z. Gao, J. Chen and B. M. Chen, TJ-FlyingFish: An unmanned morphable aerial-aquatic vehicle system, Unmanned Systems, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 409–428, March 2024.
  10. Z. Pan and B. M. Chen, Connectivity-preserving formation tracking for multiple double integrators by a self-tuning adaptive distributed observer, IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol. 7, pp. 2221–2226, June 2023.
  11. C. Gao, X. Wang, R. Wang. Z. Zhao, Y. Zhai, X. Chen and B. M. Chen, A UAV-based explore-then-exploit system for autonomous indoor facility inspection and scene reconstruction, Automation in Construction, Vol. 148, Article No. 104753 (14 pages), April 2023.
  12. P. Zhou and B. M. Chen, Semi-global leader-following output consensus of discrete-time heterogeneous linear systems subject to actuator position and rate saturation, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 1231–1236, February 2023.
  13. K. Liu, Z. Gao, F. Lin and B. M. Chen, FG-Net: A fast and accurate framework for large-scale LiDAR point cloud understanding, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 553–564, January 2023.
  14. G. Yang, K. Liu, J. Zhang, B. Zhao, Z. Zhao, X. Chen and B. M. Chen, Datasets and processing methods for boosting visual inspection of civil infrastructure: A comprehensive review and case study on crack classifications, segmentation, and detection, Construction and Building Materials, Vol. 356, Article No. 129226 (25 pages), November 2022.
  15. Y. Chen, S. Lai, J. Cui, B. Wang and B. M. Chen, GPU-accelerated incremental Euclidean distance transform for online motion planning of mobile robots, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 6894–6901, July 2022.
  16. B. M. Chen, On the trends of autonomous unmanned systems research, Engineering, Vol. 12, pp. 20–23, May 2022.