Papers
15
Total Citations
166
H-Index
7
About
Alan Liu is a prolific researcher whose work spans multi-robot systems, autonomous navigation, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). He is perhaps best recognized for his foundational contributions to multi-agent formation control, with his 2005 paper "Multiagent-Based Multi-team Formation Control for Mobile Robots" accumulating 42 citations and establishing a novel framework for organizing multiple robot teams using the VOMAS architecture. His early work in the mid-2000s systematically advanced the field through taxonomies of formation control and simplified yet powerful representations for distributed robot coordination, collectively garnering significant academic attention. Liu's research trajectory reflects a consistent drive toward robot flexibility and adaptability. His 2007 work on flexible navigation architectures addressed the challenge of dynamic task and role switching in robots, while later contributions explored service robotics in smart home environments and affordance-based grasping — demonstrating a broadening research vision. More recently, his 2023 investigation into cybersecurity vulnerabilities in UAV-cloud architectures signals a timely pivot toward the safety dimensions of autonomous systems, earning 19 citations within just two years. Across two decades, Liu has made enduring contributions bridging software engineering, artificial intelligence, and robotics, offering both theoretical frameworks and practical system designs that continue to inform modern autonomous robot development.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Multiagent-Based Multi-team Formation Control for Mobile Robots42 citations · 2005
- 2A Flexible Architecture for Navigation Control of a Mobile Robot33 citations · 2007
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- 4Multiple teams for mobile robot formation control15 citations · 2005
- 5Applying a Taxonomy of Formation Control in Developing a Robotic System9 citations · 2005
- 6Multi-agent based formation control using a simple representation9 citations · 2004
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- 8A multiprocessor real-time process scheduling method7 citations · 2003
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- 10Improving robot grasping plans with affordance4 citations · 2017