collaborators

7 papers

cs.RO2026

How Should a Robot Configure Its Laser Scanner for Inspection?

Zhiling Chen, David Gorsich, Matthew P. Castanier +3

Robotic inspection relies on accurate sensing to acquire high-fidelity geometric measurements for defect detection and metrology. While prior work has focused on robot motion and v…

cs.RO2026

ScanBot: A Benchmark for Precision Robotic Surface Scanning with Industrial Laser Profilers

Zhiling Chen, Yang Zhang, Fardin Jalil Piran +3

We introduce ScanBot, a benchmark for instruction-conditioned, high-precision surface scanning with robot-mounted industrial laser profilers. Unlike existing robot learning dataset…

cs.RO2026

Task-Aware Scanning Parameter Configuration for Robotic Inspection Using Vision Language Embeddings and Hyperdimensional Computing

Zhiling Chen, David Gorsich, Matthew P. Castanier +3

Robotic laser profiling is widely used for dimensional verification and surface inspection, yet measurement fidelity is often dominated by sensor configuration rather than robot mo…

cs.CR2025

Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Federated Learning via Explainable Adaptive Differential Privacy

Fardin Jalil Piran, Zhiling Chen, Yang Zhang +3

Decentralized federated learning enables collaborative model training without a central server, but shared model updates can still leak sensitive information through inversion, rec…

cs.AI2025

Multimodal RAG-driven Anomaly Detection and Classification in Laser Powder Bed Fusion using Large Language Models

Kiarash Naghavi Khanghah, Zhiling Chen, Lela Romeo +4

Additive manufacturing enables the fabrication of complex designs while minimizing waste, but faces challenges related to defects and process anomalies. This study presents a novel…

cs.LG2025

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning with Differentially Private Hyperdimensional Computing

Fardin Jalil Piran, Zhiling Chen, Mohsen Imani +1

Federated Learning (FL) has become a key method for preserving data privacy in Internet of Things (IoT) environments, as it trains Machine Learning (ML) models locally while transm…