Qiang Ruan

About

Qiang Ruan is a leading robotics researcher specializing in the design and analysis of novel multi-legged and deformable mobile robots. His work focuses on creating low-degree-of-freedom (DoF) robotic systems that achieve high mobility, stability, and obstacle-surmounting capabilities through innovative mechanical design. Ruan’s major contributions include the development of a multi-legged robot with pitch adjustive units, which uses only 6 DoF to enable steady walking and complex terrain navigation, and the SmooBot, a smoothly moving low-DoF robot with cam compensation mechanisms for industrial delivery tasks. He also pioneered a deformable mobile robot with two reconfigurable platforms and three kinematic chains, achieving large deformation and multiple locomotion modes. His research has garnered significant attention, with his most-cited paper receiving 17 citations. Ruan’s notable achievements include designing a lizard-inspired torso-leg-foot biomimetic robot for enhanced obstacle climbing and a reconfiguration method for single-DoF closed-chain leg mechanisms. His work is highly influential in advancing practical, efficient robotic locomotion for real-world applications.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Design and Analysis of a Multi-Legged Robot with Pitch Adjustive Units

   17 citations · 2021
2. 2
   Design and locomotion analysis of a novel deformable mobile robot with two spatial reconfigurable platforms and three kinematic chains

   10 citations · 2016
3. 3
   Analysis and experiments on a novel smoothly moving low-DoF multilegged robot

   10 citations · 2019
4. 4
   Reconfiguration and compensation design method for single-DoF closed-chain leg mechanism

   6 citations · 2024
5. 5
   Topological Structure Design and Obstacle-climbing Capability Analysis of a Lizard-inspired Torso-leg-foot Biomimetic Robot

   4 citations · 2025

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