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Chunxin Qiu is a pioneering researcher in autonomous mobile robotics, with a career spanning from medical capsule endoscopy to outdoor navigation systems. His work bridges two critical domains: active capsule robots for medical inspection and autonomous navigation for mobile robots in challenging outdoor environments. In his early career, Qiu designed a novel locomotion-steering mechanism for active capsule endoscopic robots, enabling controlled movement and turning within the intestinal tract—a foundational contribution to minimally invasive medical robotics. He later shifted focus to outdoor mobile robots, where he has made his most significant impacts. Qiu developed a cloud-based real-time outsourcing localization architecture that leverages cloud computing to enable ground mobile robots to navigate large-scale outdoor environments. He also introduced a terrain-inclination-aided 3D localization and mapping technique, combining Iterative Closest Points (ICP) algorithms with terrain data to improve robot positioning accuracy. His work on slip and tire force estimation for wheeled robots on inclined terrain, using Extended Kalman Filters, remains essential for robots operating on uneven surfaces. With over 40 citations across his most-cited papers, Qiu’s research has been published in leading venues and compiled into a book on autonomous mobile robots in unknown outdoor environments, cementing his reputation as a key innovator in field robotics.