Papers
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Total Citations
231
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About
Guodong Qin is a leading researcher in the field of bio-inspired robotics and remote maintenance systems, with a primary focus on continuum and snake-like robots for extreme environments. His work centers on designing and controlling flexible, tendon-driven manipulators that can navigate narrow, multi-obstacle spaces in aerospace, nuclear facilities, and fusion reactors. Qin’s major contributions include the development of a snake-inspired layer-driven continuum robot (78 citations), which introduced redundant degrees of freedom for enhanced maneuverability, and the systematic design of a snake arm maintainer for nuclear industry applications (22 citations). He has also pioneered adaptive trajectory control for under-actuated snake robots (23 citations) and addressed critical challenges in position error compensation for the Multi-Purpose Overload Robot in nuclear power plants (22 citations). Notably, his recent work on surrogate model-based cognitive digital twins (13 citations) represents a leap toward intelligent, self-optimizing remote maintenance for fusion reactors. With over 200 total citations, Qin’s research is instrumental in advancing robotic solutions for hazardous, confined environments, making him a key figure in the intersection of robotics, nuclear engineering, and digital twin technology.
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Top Papers
- 1A Snake-Inspired Layer-Driven Continuum Robot78 citations · 2021
- 2Adaptive trajectory control of an under-actuated snake robot23 citations · 2022
- 3Systematic design of snake arm maintainer in nuclear industry22 citations · 2022
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- 6Research on the cable-driven endoscopic manipulator for fusion reactors12 citations · 2023
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- 8Wall-Climbing Mobile Robot for Inspecting DEMO Vacuum Vessel9 citations · 2022
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