Yajun Yang

Sun Yat-sen University, Space Engineering University

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Yajun Yang’s research focuses on distributed robotics, cooperative localization, and intelligent swarm systems, with a particular emphasis on enabling autonomous navigation in GPS-denied environments. In their highly cited 2021 work on distributed cooperative localization using bearing-only sensors, Yang developed a method for groups of mobile robots—each equipped with IMUs and optical cameras—to achieve stable self-localization through inter-robot communication and data fusion, addressing a critical challenge in real-world deployment. Their 2020 survey on cooperative control and communication of intelligent swarms, also garnering 10 citations, provides a comprehensive overview of the field, synthesizing advances in swarm coordination, communication protocols, and control strategies. Together, these contributions have laid foundational groundwork for scalable, resilient multi-robot systems, with both papers earning recognition for their practical relevance to autonomous exploration, search-and-rescue, and environmental monitoring. Yang’s work stands out for bridging theoretical algorithms with hardware-constrained applications, offering clear pathways for students and researchers aiming to advance decentralized robotics in challenging, communication-limited settings.