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Yuanli Cai is a robotics researcher whose work centers on state estimation, sensor fusion, and autonomous navigation for mobile robots. His primary contributions lie in developing computationally efficient algorithms for attitude estimation and localization, addressing the critical challenge of noisy sensor data in real-world robotic systems. Cai’s most cited work, an attitude estimation algorithm for portable mobile robots (2021, 27 citations), introduces a complementary filtering approach that overcomes the drift and noise issues of gyroscopes and accelerometers while avoiding the high computational cost of traditional extended Kalman filters (EKF) and particle filters. This work has been influential in providing a practical, low-cost solution for inertial navigation. He has also made notable contributions to robot localization, including the use of EKF for two-wheeled robots (2015, 7 citations) and a comparative analysis of EKF and sigma-point Kalman filters (SPKF) for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) (2017). Furthermore, Cai has explored human-robot interaction in hazardous environments, proposing a fuzzy logic and haptic feedback system to improve safety in teleoperated demining robots (2017). His research bridges theoretical estimation methods with applied robotics, offering accessible solutions for portable and field-deployable systems.