About

Andong Liu is a prolific researcher specializing in autonomous robotics, control systems, and machine learning-based approaches for robotic applications. His work spans mobile robot formation control, state estimation, visual servoing, and human-robot collaboration, establishing him as a significant contributor to modern robotics and control engineering. Liu's most influential contributions include his development of extended state observer-based distributed model predictive control (DMPC) for multi-robot formation with disturbance rejection (106 citations), and innovative multirate moving horizon estimation techniques for mobile robots integrating heterogeneous sensors (84 citations). His exploration of deep reinforcement learning for visual servoing with visibility constraints (68 citations) and his comprehensive survey of learning-based robotic visual servoing systems (68 citations) demonstrate his leadership at the intersection of classical control theory and modern AI. More recently, Liu has advanced variable impedance control for robotic manipulators, addressing the precision-compliance tradeoff in contact-rich tasks (62 citations), and pioneered hierarchical frameworks for human-robot collaboration using reinforcement learning (36 citations). His research on stable demonstration learning through flexible neural energy functions further highlights his commitment to safe, reliable autonomous systems. Collectively, his body of work, accumulating hundreds of citations, reflects deep expertise in bridging theoretical control with intelligent, real-world robotic applications.

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15
H-Index
31
Papers
788
Total Citations
25
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
Formation Control of Multiple Mobile Robots Incorporating an Extended State Observer and Distributed Model Predictive Approach
106 citations · 2018
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2022 (9 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 35
🏛 Institutions: City University of Hong Kong, Zhejiang University of Technology, Embedded Systems (United States), Zhejiang University of Science and Technology

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