Papers
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Total Citations
2,102
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About
Xuebo Zhang is a prominent robotics researcher whose work spans visual servoing, mobile robot navigation, motion planning, and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). He has made foundational contributions to the field of visual servoing for nonholonomic mobile robots, developing innovative strategies that address longstanding challenges such as unknown camera-to-robot parameters, unknown depth information, and physical constraints. His 2011 papers on adaptive active visual servoing and motion-estimation-based visual servoing (140 and 127 citations, respectively) established him as a leading voice in camera-guided robot control. Zhang further advanced the field by integrating model predictive control into image-based visual servoing frameworks (94 citations) and proposing acceleration-level pseudo-dynamic control architectures (72 citations). Beyond visual servoing, his research has expanded into autonomous indoor exploration, humanlike motion planning (81 citations), and time-optimal trajectory planning (95 citations). His 2020 work on Plane-Edge-SLAM (72 citations) demonstrates a continued commitment to robust indoor localization and mapping. With over 900 citations across his top publications, Zhang's research consistently bridges rigorous theoretical development with practical robotic applications, making his work essential reading for students and researchers in autonomous systems and intelligent robotics.
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Top Papers
- 1Adaptive Active Visual Servoing of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots140 citations · 2011
- 2Motion-Estimation-Based Visual Servoing of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots127 citations · 2011
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