Papers
41
Total Citations
765
H-Index
14
About
Yan-Lin He is a pioneering robotics researcher whose work centers on amphibious robotics, mechanical design, and embedded sensing systems. He is best known for his sustained development of the Amphibious Spherical Robot (ASR) series, a body of work that has redefined how engineers approach multi-environment locomotion. His landmark 2017 paper on compact amphibious robot design has accumulated 101 citations, while his introduction of the ASR-III — a sophisticated wheel-legged, water-jet hybrid system — has earned 72 citations, reflecting broad community recognition of its novel composite driving architecture. He's contributions span the full engineering lifecycle: from early structural prototyping using 3D printing technologies (2014) to rigorous modal and fatigue analyses of critical components, through to advanced real-time visual tracking systems built on System-on-Chip platforms. This progression demonstrates both depth and breadth across mechanical, computational, and sensory domains. His 2019 work on optical fiber Bragg grating sensors for soft robotics and flexible morphing wings signals an expanding research vision into biomedical and aerospace applications. With over 478 cumulative citations across his most prominent publications, He's research has made a measurable and lasting impact on the field of bio-inspired and amphibious robotic systems.
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Top Papers
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- 2Hybrid Locomotion Evaluation for a Novel Amphibious Spherical Robot72 citations · 2018
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- 5Visual Detection and Tracking System for a Spherical Amphibious Robot45 citations · 2017
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- 83D printing technology-based an amphibious spherical robot30 citations · 2014
- 9A spherical robot based on all programmable SoC and 3-D printing29 citations · 2014
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