Haibo Zhang
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About
Haibo Zhang is a leading researcher in space robotics, specializing in the dynamics and control of manipulators for capturing non-cooperative targets—a critical challenge for orbital debris removal and on-orbit servicing. His most influential work, a 2019 study on a 7-DOF hybrid manipulator for capturing tumbling objects in space, has garnered 68 citations, establishing a foundational framework for designing robotic systems that can safely interact with uncontrolled satellites. Zhang’s contributions extend to active compliance control, where he developed methods to enable position-controlled industrial robots to simulate zero-gravity space operations using force/torque sensors, bridging the gap between terrestrial testing and spaceflight. He has also pioneered adaptive control techniques using flexible brushes to despin tumbling targets, modeled with the absolute nodal coordinate method, and proposed dynamics-based algorithms for identifying the mass properties of captured non-cooperative targets. His work is instrumental in advancing autonomous space robotics, with direct applications to debris mitigation and future space station maintenance.
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