Papers
75
Total Citations
1,491
H-Index
21
About
Aihong Ji is a prominent robotics researcher whose work bridges biomimetics, bio-inspired robotics, and autonomous systems. His research draws deeply from animal locomotion — particularly geckos, snakes, and insects — to engineer robots capable of climbing, crawling, and navigating complex environments. Ji's most cited work, an overview of Visual SLAM (202 citations), demonstrates his breadth beyond biomimetics, contributing to the field of autonomous robot perception and navigation. His foundational studies on gecko locomotion mechanics, including reaction force analysis on vertical and inverted surfaces, have informed a generation of climbing robot designs. He has translated these biological insights into tangible innovations: bio-inspired climbing robots featuring flexible spines, adhesive pads, and claws that mimic the synergistic attachment strategies of insects (102 citations). His snake-inspired continuum robot (78 citations) and aerial-wall robotic insect (42 citations) — capable of landing, climbing, and taking off from vertical surfaces — showcase his ability to engineer multi-modal locomotion systems of remarkable versatility. With reviews on wheel-legged bipeds and gecko-inspired flexible spine robots driven by shape memory alloys, Ji continues shaping the frontier of adaptive, nature-inspired robotics research.
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Top Papers
- 1An Overview on Visual SLAM: From Tradition to Semantic202 citations · 2022
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- 3A Snake-Inspired Layer-Driven Continuum Robot78 citations · 2021
- 4A Bio-inspired Climbing Robot with Flexible Pads and Claws76 citations · 2018
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- 6Development of Wheel-Legged Biped Robots: A Review50 citations · 2024
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