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Gongliu Yang is a leading researcher in multi-sensor integrated navigation and cooperative robotics, with a focus on enabling precise localization in challenging, GNSS-denied environments. His work centers on developing advanced information fusion methods that allow autonomous systems—from unmanned vehicles to aerial–ground robotic teams—to navigate reliably when satellite signals are unavailable. Yang’s most cited paper (2021, 43 citations) introduces a factor graph-based multi-sensor fusion framework for integrated navigation systems, addressing the critical challenge of efficiently combining data from heterogeneous sensors to improve accuracy in autonomous mobile robotics. He further advances the field with an autonomous information-seeking navigation method for aerial–ground cooperation (2023, 17 citations), enabling teams to collectively localize and execute Internet of Things (IoT) missions without GNSS. His research on distributed scheduling for cooperative navigation (2022, 8 citations) tackles communication overhead by modeling uncertainty evolution, making multi-robot systems more efficient. These contributions are vital for real-world applications in search-and-rescue, surveillance, and autonomous logistics, establishing Yang as a key innovator in resilient, cooperative navigation technologies.