Adaptive EC-GPR: a hybrid torque prediction model for mobile robots with unknown terrain disturbances

Yiting Kang received the BS and PhD degrees in vehicle engineering from the University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China, in 2008 and 2014, respectively. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the CONCAVE Research Centre with the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering of Concordia University from 2014 to 2015. She is an Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, where she has been since 2015. Her research interests are in the area of vehicle dynamics and intelligent control.

Biao Xue obtained a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Vehicle Engineering from University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China in 2020 and 2023. His main research direction is autonomous planning and control. He is currently working as a regulatory algorithm engineer at Hefei Jinsong Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.

Jianshu Wei is pursuing a graduate degree in Vehicle Engineering at the School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China. His main research direction is collaborative control and state estimation of distributed drive vehicle.

Riya Zeng received the BS and PhD degrees in vehicle engineering from the University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China in 2015 and 2021, respectively. He has been a visiting PhD student with the Waterloo Cognitive Autonomous Driving (CogDrive) Laboratory of University of Waterloo from 2018 to 2020. He is a senior engineer at the Department of Testing Technology, China North Vehicle Research Institute. His research interests include terrain identification, state estimation and intelligent control with mobile robots and terramechanics.

Mengbo Yan is pursuing a graduate degree in Vehicle Engineering at the School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China. His main research focuses on terrain classification, Gaussian torque prediction, and traffic assessment.

Fei Li, PHD, is an Associate Professor and Master Supervisor, currently works at the University of Science and Technology Beijing. Her main research directions are numerical analysis of geotechnical engineering stability and coupling problems, the inverse calculation and reconstruction methods for in-situ stress field under multi-field coupling conditions, the mechanical analysis of geotechnical engineering structure and optimization algorithms.