Wanqing Xia

625 total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 392 citations indexed

About

Wanqing Xia is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Wanqing Xia has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 392 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 3 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 2 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Wanqing Xia's work include Robot Manipulation and Learning (4 papers), Hand Gesture Recognition Systems (2 papers) and Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (2 papers). Wanqing Xia is often cited by papers focused on Robot Manipulation and Learning (4 papers), Hand Gesture Recognition Systems (2 papers) and Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (2 papers). Wanqing Xia collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, Sweden and China. Wanqing Xia's co-authors include Yuqian Lu, Xun Xu, Zengkun Liu, Saahil Chand, Hao Zheng, Zhaojun Qin, Lihui Wang, Joshua Oon Soo Goh, Wei Xu and Xun Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing and Manufacturing Letters.

In The Last Decade

Wanqing Xia

4 papers receiving 373 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Outlook on human-centric manufacturing towards Industry 5.0

2022 376 citations Yuqian Lu, Hao Zheng et al. Journal of Manufacturing Systems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wanqing Xia New Zealand	3	266	50	48	48	44	6	392
Zengkun Liu New Zealand	3	273 1.0×	50 1.0×	44 0.9×	50 1.0×	44 1.0×	4	397
Saahil Chand New Zealand	7	325 1.2×	75 1.5×	60 1.3×	77 1.6×	50 1.1×	10	502
Zhaojun Qin New Zealand	6	407 1.5×	51 1.0×	60 1.3×	54 1.1×	55 1.3×	8	548
Rafael A. Rojas Italy	13	294 1.1×	43 0.9×	90 1.9×	61 1.3×	73 1.7×	26	481
Andrea Bettoni Switzerland	11	188 0.7×	45 0.9×	30 0.6×	41 0.9×	50 1.1×	26	340
Konstantinos Mykoniatis United States	10	244 0.9×	23 0.5×	51 1.1×	28 0.6×	25 0.6×	37	445
Gabriel Zambrano Rey Colombia	5	244 0.9×	48 1.0×	34 0.7×	44 0.9×	25 0.6×	7	312
Johannes Cottyn Belgium	11	351 1.3×	67 1.3×	81 1.7×	48 1.0×	101 2.3×	49	567
Szilárd Jaskó Hungary	8	255 1.0×	14 0.3×	31 0.6×	38 0.8×	48 1.1×	19	381
Huiying Zhou China	6	235 0.9×	34 0.7×	77 1.6×	94 2.0×	21 0.5×	19	423

Countries citing papers authored by Wanqing Xia

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wanqing Xia

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wanqing Xia

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wanqing Xia. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wanqing Xia based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Wanqing Xia. Wanqing Xia is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Xia, Wanqing, et al.. (2025). Large vision-language models enabled novel objects 6D pose estimation for human-robot collaboration. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing. 95. 103030–103030.

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Zheng, Hao, Wanqing Xia, & Xun Xu. (2025). A human-robot collaborative assembly framework with quality checking based on real-time dual-hand action segmentation. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing. 94. 102976–102976. 1 indexed citations

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Xia, Wanqing, Yuqian Lu, Wei Xu, & Xun Xu. (2024). Deep reinforcement learning based proactive dynamic obstacle avoidance for safe human-robot collaboration. Manufacturing Letters. 41. 1246–1256. 2 indexed citations

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Xia, Wanqing, Yuqian Lu, & Xun Xu. (2023). Application and Evaluation of Soft-Actor Critic Reinforcement Learning in Constrained Trajectory Planning for 6DOF Robotic Manipulators. 1–6.

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Lu, Yuqian, Hao Zheng, Saahil Chand, et al.. (2022). Outlook on human-centric manufacturing towards Industry 5.0. Journal of Manufacturing Systems. 62. 612–627. 376 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xia, Wanqing, et al.. (2020). Decentralized coordination of autonomous AGVs for flexible factory automation in the context of Industry 4.0. 488–493. 13 indexed citations

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