About

Sheng Xu is a versatile robotics and artificial intelligence researcher whose work spans precision agriculture, robotic manipulation, medical robotics, and learning-based control systems. His most influential contribution, a 2022 review of deep learning in multiscale agricultural sensing (232 citations), established him as a leading voice in applying AI to address global food security challenges exacerbated by climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. Complementing this, his 2024 survey on UAVs and deep learning in precision agriculture further cements his commitment to sustainable farming technologies. In robotics, Xu has made significant strides in grasp pose estimation, developing a monocular RGB-D approach for 7-DoF object grasping (117 citations) and advancing reactive grasping for dynamic objects. His contributions to medical robotics include pioneering work on magnetically controlled guidewire systems for vascular intervention (88 citations) and an early review of soft robotics in medical applications (39 citations). Throughout his career, Xu has consistently championed learning-based control strategies — including broad learning systems and learning-from-demonstration methods — to simplify complex robot trajectory tracking and motion control. His diverse, high-impact publication record reflects a researcher bridging fundamental machine learning with real-world robotic and agricultural applications.

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12
H-Index
26
Papers
747
Total Citations
29
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
A Review of Deep Learning in Multiscale Agricultural Sensing
232 citations · 2022
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2024 (7 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 85
🏛 Institutions: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, National Institutes of Health, Zhejiang Business Technology Institute, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Shandong Academy of Sciences

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