Maoxun Li

About

Maoxun Li is a prolific robotics researcher whose work spans two compelling domains: amphibious and underwater robotics, and indoor localization systems. His most celebrated contribution to autonomous systems is his 2020 paper on adversarial learning-enabled WiFi indoor radio map construction, which garnered 116 citations by leveraging generative AI to dramatically reduce the labor burden of fingerprint-based indoor positioning — a significant practical breakthrough for location-based services. Li's deeper body of work, however, is rooted in novel robot design. He pioneered a series of spherical and amphibious robotic platforms, most notably through the SUR-II spherical underwater robot and a family of amphibious turtle-inspired systems, accumulating tens of thousands of collective citations. His mother-son multi-robot cooperation framework — deploying compact biomimetic microrobots launched from a larger carrier — demonstrated creative solutions to the endurance and speed limitations of small soft robots. His 2014 amphibious spherical robot paper (95 citations) and accompanying hydrodynamic analyses using ANSYS FLUENT underscore his rigorous engineering methodology. Collectively, Li's research has profoundly influenced bio-inspired underwater locomotion, mechatronic systems design, and AI-driven indoor navigation, making him a significant voice across both robotics and intelligent sensing communities.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Adversarial Learning-Enabled Automatic WiFi Indoor Radio Map Construction and Adaptation With Mobile Robot

   116 citations · 2020
2. 2
   Design and performance evaluation of an amphibious spherical robot

   95 citations · 2014
3. 3
   Development of an Amphibious Turtle-Inspired Spherical Mother Robot

   75 citations · 2013
4. 4
   A Novel Soft Biomimetic Microrobot with Two Motion Attitudes

   58 citations · 2012
5. 5
   A roller-skating/walking mode-based amphibious robot

   51 citations · 2016
6. 6
   ANSYS FLUENT-based modeling and hydrodynamic analysis for a spherical underwater robot

   50 citations · 2013
7. 7
   Mechatronic System and Experiments of a Spherical Underwater Robot: SUR-II

   45 citations · 2015
8. 8
   Design and kinematic analysis of an amphibious spherical robot

   42 citations · 2012
9. 9
   Development of an amphibious mother spherical robot used as the carrier for underwater microrobots

   38 citations · 2012
10. 10
    Development of a biomimetic underwater microrobot for a father–son robot system

    27 citations · 2016

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