Wesley Au

684 total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 453 citations indexed

About

Wesley Au is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wesley Au has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 453 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 5 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 5 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wesley Au's work include Robot Manipulation and Learning (6 papers), Smart Agriculture and AI (5 papers) and Soft Robotics and Applications (4 papers). Wesley Au is often cited by papers focused on Robot Manipulation and Learning (6 papers), Smart Agriculture and AI (5 papers) and Soft Robotics and Applications (4 papers). Wesley Au collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Hong Kong and United States. Wesley Au's co-authors include Xing Wang, Hongyu Zhou, Hanwen Kang, Chao Chen, Michael Yu Wang, Chao Chen, Hoam Chung, Chao Chen, Tianhao Liu and Chao Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Sensors, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture and Smart Materials and Structures.

In The Last Decade

Wesley Au

15 papers receiving 440 citations

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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.

Intelligent robots for fruit harvesting: recent developments and future challenges

2022 173 citations Hongyu Zhou, Xing Wang et al. Precision Agriculture profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wesley Au Australia	8	279	133	133	102	38	17	453
Pengbo Wang China	12	334 1.2×	103 0.8×	77 0.6×	39 0.4×	38 1.0×	33	483
Leiying He China	15	264 0.9×	123 0.9×	111 0.8×	114 1.1×	86 2.3×	33	551
Dani Martínez Spain	11	197 0.7×	53 0.4×	120 0.9×	76 0.7×	72 1.9×	23	464
Alistair Scarfe New Zealand	7	434 1.6×	114 0.9×	44 0.3×	42 0.4×	43 1.1×	7	534
Adilet Sugirbay Kazakhstan	11	289 1.0×	180 1.4×	58 0.4×	35 0.3×	24 0.6×	25	443
Mark Hedley Jones New Zealand	7	376 1.3×	99 0.7×	40 0.3×	32 0.3×	35 0.9×	16	502
Feng Xie China	8	231 0.8×	78 0.6×	54 0.4×	33 0.3×	36 0.9×	16	312
Eduardo Navas Spain	9	190 0.7×	176 1.3×	176 1.3×	104 1.0×	47 1.2×	19	456
Jos Meuleman Netherlands	8	264 0.9×	103 0.8×	210 1.6×	60 0.6×	58 1.5×	9	544

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wesley Au

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wesley Au. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wesley Au 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 Wesley Au. Wesley Au is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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17 of 17 papers shown

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Au, Wesley, et al.. (2025). Robotics.

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Zhou, Hongyu, Hanwen Kang, Xing Wang, et al.. (2023). Branch Interference Sensing and Handling by Tactile Enabled Robotic Apple Harvesting. Agronomy. 13(2). 503–503. 18 indexed citations

3.

Au, Wesley, et al.. (2023). The Monash Apple Retrieving System: A review on system intelligence and apple harvesting performance. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 213. 108164–108164. 18 indexed citations

4.

Zhou, Hongyu, Xing Wang, Wesley Au, Hanwen Kang, & Chao Chen. (2022). Intelligent robots for fruit harvesting: recent developments and future challenges. Precision Agriculture. 23(5). 1856–1907. 173 indexed citations breakdown →

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Au, Wesley, et al.. (2022). The Monash Apple Retrieving System. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations

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Zhou, Hongyu, et al.. (2022). Learning-Based Slip Detection for Robotic Fruit Grasping and Manipulation under Leaf Interference. Sensors. 22(15). 5483–5483. 18 indexed citations

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Wang, Xing, Hanwen Kang, Hongyu Zhou, Wesley Au, & Chao Chen. (2022). Geometry-aware fruit grasping estimation for robotic harvesting in apple orchards. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 193. 106716–106716. 81 indexed citations

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Wang, Xing, Hanwen Kang, Hongyu Zhou, et al.. (2022). Development and evaluation of a robust soft robotic gripper for apple harvesting. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 204. 107552–107552. 84 indexed citations

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Wang, Xing, et al.. (2021). Bio-inspired soft bistable actuator with dual actuations. Smart Materials and Structures. 30(12). 125001–125001. 29 indexed citations

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Au, Wesley, Hoam Chung, & Chao Chen. (2016). Path planning and assembly mode-changes of 6-DOF Stewart-Gough-type parallel manipulators. Mechanism and Machine Theory. 106. 30–49. 14 indexed citations

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Au, Wesley, Hoam Chung, & Chao Chen. (2014). Path Planning for Assembly Mode Changes for the 3-RRR using Global Workspace Roadmaps. UTS ePRESS (University of Technology Sydney). 307–316. 1 indexed citations

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Au, Wesley, Hoam Chung, & Christopher Chen. (2014). Generation of the global workspace roadmap of the 3-R R using rotary disk search. Mechanism and Machine Theory. 78. 248–262. 3 indexed citations

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Au, Wesley. (2013). Path Planning of the 3-RPR Using Global Workspace Roadmaps. 148–157. 1 indexed citations

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Au, Wesley, Chao Chen, & Hoam Chung. (2012). Path Planning of Planar Parallel Mechanisms Using Global Workspace Road Maps. 1269–1276. 2 indexed citations

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Au, Wesley, et al.. (2003). Video to information (V2I) system enabling old commercial cockpit instruments to participate in the advanced information retrieval and safety services. 2. 12C4–1.

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Au, Wesley, et al.. (2003). A knowledge-based approach to the detection, tracking and classification of target formations in infrared image sequences. 2. 153–158. 4 indexed citations

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Au, Wesley, et al.. (2003). Use of computers and family life of tertiary students in Hong Kong. 1. 494–498. 2 indexed citations

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