Papers
104
Total Citations
1,880
H-Index
19
About
Jindong Tan is a robotics and autonomous systems researcher whose work spans mobile manipulation, multi-robot coordination, modular robotics, and intelligent control. His foundational contributions to mobile manipulator modeling — particularly his unified dynamic framework treating mobile manipulators as redundant robots — established influential approaches to integrated task planning and control, with seminal papers from 2002 and 2003 accumulating over 150 combined citations. His 2006 work on distributed multi-robot coordination in area exploration (221 citations) remains among his most impactful contributions, advancing how autonomous robot teams efficiently partition and navigate unknown environments. Tan also pioneered the Sambot self-assembly modular robot system (169 citations), demonstrating versatile autonomous modules capable of reconfiguring into diverse robotic structures. His research breadth is notable: from microrobot dynamics for drug delivery and wearable visual-inertial navigation systems to real-time ROS architectures on multi-core processors and deep reinforcement learning for trajectory planning. More recently, Tan has directed attention toward socially relevant applications, including adaptive robotic disinfection in built environments. Across his career, his publications have collectively garnered nearly 1,000 citations, reflecting sustained influence across robotics, human-robot interaction, and autonomous systems research.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Distributed multi-robot coordination in area exploration221 citations · 2006
- 2Sambot: A Self-Assembly Modular Robot System169 citations · 2010
- 3Integrated Task Planning and Control for Mobile Manipulators107 citations · 2003
- 4RT-ROS: A real-time ROS architecture on multi-core processors91 citations · 2015
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- 9Unified model approach for planning and control of mobile manipulators52 citations · 2002
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