Caixia Yan

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Total Citations

109

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About

Caixia Yan is a pioneering researcher in the field of robotics, with a primary focus on the design, control, and trajectory tracking of spherical robots. Her most influential work, “Design, analysis and experiments of an omni-directional spherical robot,” has garnered 80 citations and introduces a novel robotic platform featuring a lucent spherical shell and an internal driving unit with two motors, enabling true omni-directional motion. This foundational design has significantly advanced the mobility and maneuverability of nonholonomic robotic systems. Yan further contributed to the control of such systems in her paper “Two-state trajectory tracking control of a spherical robot using neurodynamics” (22 citations), where she addressed the challenging nonholonomic constraints of spherical robots—systems that cannot be converted to chained form—by proposing a neurodynamics-based control method for the BHQ-1 robot developed in her lab. Additionally, her work on “Real‐time multiple mobile robots visual detection system” (7 citations) supports satellite formation ground testing, showcasing her versatility in multi-robot perception. Yan’s contributions have laid critical groundwork for the practical deployment of spherical robots in complex environments.