Papers
125
Total Citations
1,465
H-Index
19
About
Yili Fu is a distinguished robotics researcher whose work spans mobile robotics, surgical robotics, and robot perception and control. He is perhaps best known for pioneering the hydraulic wheel-legged robot (WLR) series, a line of innovative hybrid platforms capable of rapid locomotion on flat terrain while adapting to complex, unstructured environments. This landmark research, spanning from the original WLR design (2018, 73 citations) through WLR-II and the third-generation WLR-3P (2023, 46 citations), represents a sustained and influential contribution to mobile robot design. Fu has also made significant strides in medical robotics, developing robotic catheter and minimally invasive surgical systems as early as 2011, and more recently advancing augmented-reality-assisted teleoperation for endoluminal interventions (2021, 50 citations). His contributions extend to robot intelligence, including real-time grasp detection using fully convolutional networks, dual-quaternion-based kinematic calibration, and human-like dual-arm coordination learning. With a cumulative citation profile exceeding 500 across his top works, Fu's research consistently bridges mechanical innovation with intelligent control, making him a highly impactful figure in both field robotics and clinical automation.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Design and Experiments of a Novel Hydraulic Wheel-Legged Robot (WLR)73 citations · 2018
- 2WLR-II, a Hose-less Hydraulic Wheel-legged Robot57 citations · 2019
- 3Kinematic calibration of serial robot using dual quaternions53 citations · 2019
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- 6Design and Control for WLR-3P: A Hydraulic Wheel-Legged Robot46 citations · 2023
- 7Human-like coordination motion learning for a redundant dual-arm robot45 citations · 2019
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- 9Development of a medical robot system for minimally invasive surgery39 citations · 2011
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