Papers
6
Total Citations
87
H-Index
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About
Xi-Jun Ke is a robotics researcher whose work spans two compelling frontiers: insect-scale microrobotics and autonomous indoor navigation systems. His most significant contributions lie in the design and fabrication of ultra-lightweight flapping-wing robots inspired by flying and water-skating insects. In 2017, Ke made a substantial mark in the field by engineering a sub-100 mg piezo-actuated flapping-wing robot capable of self-lifting — a remarkable achievement in microfabrication that demanded extraordinary precision in assembling micro-scale components. That same year, he introduced a 165 mg water-skating robot driven by piezoelectric actuators, demonstrating that surface tension could be harnessed for aquatic locomotion at coin-sized scales. His monolithic fabrication approach to electromagnetically driven insect-scale robots further addressed longstanding manufacturing challenges between MEMS and conventional techniques. Beyond microrobotics, Ke has contributed meaningfully to mobile robotics, developing submap-based SLAM navigation frameworks for the Fetch robot in large-scale indoor environments. His most-cited works have collectively accumulated over 80 citations, reflecting growing interest from the broader robotics and engineering community in his cross-disciplinary innovations.
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- 3Monolithic fabrication of an insect‐scale self‐lifting flapping‐wing robot13 citations · 2017
- 4Submap-Based Indoor Navigation System for the Fetch Robot11 citations · 2020
- 5Indoor Navigation System Using the Fetch Robot6 citations · 2019
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