I am a Principal Robotics Engineer at Symbotic and lead the research and development in Multi-robot Routing. My research interests are primarily in the areas of robotics, AI planning, and multi-agent systems with applications in interconnected robotic systems for manufacturing, logistics, and field operation.
I obtained my Ph.D. degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2022, advised by Prof. Brian C. Williams. Before joining Symbotic, I was an Applied Scientist on the Manipulation R&D team at Amazon Robotics.
Products
I architected, designed, and implemented a novel multi-robot routing system, and deployed it in Walmart’s high-density storage warehouses.
Preprints
- Cooperative Task and Motion Planning for Multi-Arm Assembly Systems.
Jingkai Chen, Jiaoyang Li *, Yijiang Huang *, Caelan Garrett, Dawei Sun, Chuchu Fan, Andreas Hofmann, Caitlin Mueller, Sven Koenig, Brian C. Williams.
Submitted and Under Review .
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Publications
- Learning-based Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments Using GNNs and Temporal Encoding. Ruipeng Zhang, Chenning Yu, Jingkai Chen, Chuchu Fan, Sicun Gao. 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022). [PDF] [Bibtex]
- Multi-agent Motion Planning from Signal Temporal Logic Specifications. Dawei Sun, Jingkai Chen, Sayan Mitra, Chuchu Fan. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). [PDF] [Bibtex]
- Multi-Agent Path Finding for Precedence-Constrained Goal Sequences.
Han Zhang *, Jingkai Chen *, Jiaoyang Li, Brian C. Williams, Sven Koenig. International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS 2022).
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- State-Temporal Decoupling of Multi-Agent Plans under Limited Communication.
Yuening Zhang, Jingkai Chen, Eric Timmons, Marlyse Reeves, and Brian C. Williams.
The Ninth ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob 2021).
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- Generalized Conflict-directed Search for Optimal Ordering Problems.
Jingkai Chen, Yuening Zhang, Cheng Fang, and Brian C. Williams.
The Fourteenth International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SOCS 2021).
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- Learning Safe Multi-agent Control with Decentralized Neural Barrier Certificates.
Zengyi Qin, Kaiqing Zhang, Yuxiao Chen, Jingkai Chen, and Chuchu Fan.
The Nineth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021).
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- Optimal Mixed Discrete-Continuous Planning for Linear Hybrid Systems.
Jingkai Chen, Brian C. Williams, and Chuchu Fan.
The Twenty-Fourth ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2021).
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- Scalable and Safe Multi-Agent Motion Planning with Nonlinear Dynamics and Bounded Disturbances.
Jingkai Chen, Jiaoyang Li, Chuchu Fan, and Brian C. Williams.
The Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021).
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- Efficiently Exploring Ordering Problems through Conflict-directed Search.
Jingkai Chen, Cheng Fang, David Wang, Andrew Wang, and Brian C. Williams.
The Twenty-Ninth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2019).
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- RADMAX: Risk and Deadline Aware Planning for Maximum Utility.
Jingkai Chen, Cheng Fang, Christian J. Muise, Howard Shrobe, Brian C. Williams, Peng Yu.
AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (AICS-2018).
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