Chuliang Yan
Papers
7
Total Citations
161
H-Index
5
About
Dr. Chuliang Yan is a leading roboticist whose work spans wall-climbing, wheel-legged, and continuum robots, with a particular focus on extreme environments—from high-rise buildings to deep space and orbital debris. His most cited work, a comprehensive 2022 review on wall-climbing robots (115 citations), established a foundational framework for the field. Dr. Yan has made significant technical contributions to negative pressure adsorption systems, optimizing impeller designs through genetic algorithms and CFD-Kriging models, and developing multi-body dynamics models for crawler-type climbers. For planetary exploration, he pioneered path planning algorithms for wheel-legged robots, integrating Theta* and Timed Elastic Band methods, and created the TeCVP velocity-planning control for hexapod rovers. More recently, he has advanced space robotics with pre-grasping motion planning using improved artificial potential fields and virtual-integrated admittance control for continuum robots capturing non-cooperative targets. With over 160 citations and publications from 2022 to 2025, Dr. Yan’s work is rapidly shaping the future of autonomous robots operating in hazardous, unstructured environments.
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Top Papers
- 1Design and Technical Development of Wall-Climbing Robots: A Review115 citations · 2022
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- 4Multi-body dynamics model of crawler wall-climbing robot7 citations · 2022
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