Papers
140
Total Citations
3,536
H-Index
33
About
Guangming Xie is a prominent robotics and control systems researcher whose work spans multi-robot coordination, biomimetic underwater robotics, and bio-inspired sensing. His early foundational contributions established robust frameworks for leader-following formation control of autonomous mobile robots and vehicles, with seminal papers from 2005 and 2007 accumulating over 340 citations combined, cementing his influence in decentralized cooperative control theory. Xie's research trajectory evolved toward aquatic robotics, where he has made remarkable strides in developing biomimetic robotic fish capable of sophisticated locomotion and coordination in dynamic underwater environments. His 2015 work on multi-robot fish coordination and his three-dimensional fin-actuated robotic fish modeling (2018) demonstrate deep integration of biological principles with engineering precision. Perhaps most striking is his 2020 study on vortex phase matching in fish-like robots (225 citations), which provided compelling evidence that schooling animals can exploit neighbor-induced flow fields — a finding with profound implications for both biology and swarm robotics. His bio-inspired innovations extend to soft robotics, including an octopus-inspired underwater gripper and a triboelectric whisker sensor for passive vortex detection, reflecting a career defined by translating nature's elegant solutions into transformative robotic technologies.
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Top Papers
- 1Leader-following formation control of multiple mobile vehicles251 citations · 2007
- 2Vortex phase matching as a strategy for schooling in robots and in fish225 citations · 2020
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- 7Leader-Following Formation Control of Multiple Mobile Robots90 citations · 2005
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