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Fuyu Nie is a leading researcher in robotics perception and autonomous navigation, with a primary focus on developing robust simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems for challenging environments. His major contributions lie in advancing lidar-based SLAM for both agricultural and indoor settings. Notably, his work on the "Forest 3-D Lidar SLAM System for Rubber-Tapping Robot" (26 citations) pioneered the use of a trunk center atlas to overcome feature instability in complex forest environments, directly enabling automated rubber tapping. To address the global consistency problem in large-scale mapping, Nie developed the LCPF system (24 citations), an improved Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter that incorporates loop detection and correction. He further tackled localization failures in feature-sparse environments with the UAPF system (9 citations), which integrates Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology for robust robot kidnap recovery and pose error compensation. His research also extends to indoor service robotics, where he has proposed novel point cloud-based algorithms for target detection and 6-DOF pose estimation. Through these innovations, Nie has significantly enhanced the reliability and applicability of autonomous robots in both agricultural and domestic settings.