Papers
24
Total Citations
225
H-Index
8
About
Shufeng Tang is a robotics researcher whose work spans modular self-reconfigurable robotics, bio-inspired locomotion, and intelligent motion planning. He is perhaps best known as the principal architect of the UBot system — a novel modular self-reconfigurable robot that elegantly bridges chain-based and lattice-based robotic architectures. Through a series of influential publications spanning 2009 to 2013, Tang systematically developed UBot from conceptual design to full implementation, accumulating over 119 citations across four papers and establishing it as a significant contribution to the field of reconfigurable robotics. Each UBot module is engineered for compactness and homogeneity, yet groups of modules can dynamically alter their configurations to achieve multi-mode locomotion, manipulation, and self-reconfiguration. Beyond UBot, Tang has demonstrated impressive research breadth: his bio-inspired water-strider robots explore flexible driving mechanisms for aquatic surface locomotion, while his more recent work advances underactuated robotic hands, continuum robot modeling, and adaptive ant colony optimization algorithms for path planning. This trajectory reveals a researcher committed to both foundational mechanical design and emerging intelligent control, making his body of work valuable reading for students exploring adaptive robotics and biomimetic systems.
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Top Papers
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- 3Design and implementation of UBot: A modular Self-Reconfigurable Robot23 citations · 2013
- 4The UBot modules for self-reconfigurable robot22 citations · 2009
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- 7Shape modeling and experimental validation of continuum robots10 citations · 2024
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- 9A Rapid Water Sliding Robot Optimized by Bionic Motion Trajectory8 citations · 2022
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