Biography

Shanben Chen is a Professor and doctoral supervisor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the founder and director of the Intelligentized Robotic Welding Technology Laboratory. He established the laboratory in March 2000. His research integrates robotic welding perception, decision-making and control, with a focus on welding dynamics and complex-system modelling.

Research & achievements

  • Intelligent robotic welding：Visual, acoustic and multisensor perception for welding-environment recognition, weld-pool feature extraction and process monitoring.
  • Welding dynamics and quality control：Fuzzy-neural and self-learning control, and multimodal modelling for penetration, bead formation and defect prediction.
  • Autonomous robots and complex systems：Locally autonomous welding robots, flexible manufacturing systems and robust control under uncertainty.

Publications & honors

  1. Evaluating perception intelligence of intelligentized robotic welding system using comprehensive evaluation approach based on fuzzy AHPQiang Liu; Yuqing Xu; Shanben Chen.Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2026, 157, 901–911.
  2. An effective penetration depth and width prediction method in pulsed GTA welding based on multimodal transformer-serial fusion networkYuqing Xu; Qiang Liu; Jingyuan Xu; Shanben Chen.Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025, 156, 252–267.
  3. A real-time prediction method for weld porosity of 5A06 aluminum alloy based on arc spectra using elemental attention, multi-scale convolution and LSTM during pulsed GTAW processJingyuan Xu; Qiang Liu; Runquan Xiao; Yuqing Xu; Wei Zhou; Shanben Chen.Optics & Laser Technology, 2025, 186, 112708.
  4. Characteristic classification and extraction of robotic multi-layer multi-pass MAG welding pool—An extended UNet network implementation based on transfer learningHao Zhou; Huabin Chen; Yinshui He; Shanben Chen.Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025, 141, 517–535.
  5. A multi-spectral channel attention mechanism for prediction of welding state during pulsed GTAWYuqing Xu; Qiang Liu; Jingyuan Xu; Runquan Xiao; Shanben Chen.Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025, 134, 1021–1033.

Honors

  • Second Prize, National Science and Technology Progress Award, for intelligent quality control of spatial welds; overall technical lead and second-ranked contributor.
  • First Prize, China Machinery Industry Science and Technology Award, for key technologies and applications in intelligent robotic welding; project lead and first-ranked contributor.
  • Second Prize, Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award, for locally autonomous intelligent welding robots; project lead and first-ranked contributor.