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Chuanqiang Lian has made significant contributions to the control and motion planning of wheeled mobile robots (WMRs), with a particular focus on near-optimal and adaptive control strategies. His most influential work, "Near-Optimal Tracking Control of Mobile Robots Via Receding-Horizon Dual Heuristic Programming" (2015), has garnered 107 citations and addresses the longstanding challenge of designing optimal trajectory tracking controllers for WMRs under complex constraints. Lian’s research integrates reinforcement learning and approximate dynamic programming (ADP) to develop self-learning, adaptive algorithms for robot motion planning and formation control. His work on kernel-based reinforcement learning for multi-robot formation control and self-learning PD algorithms for motion planning demonstrates a commitment to creating intelligent, data-driven solutions that improve robot autonomy in dynamic environments. By combining heuristic dynamic programming with receding-horizon optimization, Lian has advanced the state of the art in real-time, near-optimal control for mobile robotics. His research is particularly valuable for students and engineers working on autonomous navigation, multi-robot systems, and adaptive control, offering practical frameworks for achieving both stability and optimality in robotic systems.