Papers
11
Total Citations
109
H-Index
7
About
Huawang Liu is a leading roboticist whose research spans bio-inspired locomotion, human–robot interaction, and intelligent control systems. His work is unified by a drive to create robots that move with animal-like agility and perception—from snake robots that climb pipes and trees using a novel model-based radius estimation approach (17 citations) to salamander-like robots controlled by a custom central pattern generator (8 citations). Liu has made foundational contributions to wheeled bipedal robots, demonstrating both LQR-based (14 citations) and MPC-based balance control (14 citations), enabling fast, stable movement across varied terrain. His impact extends to human–machine interaction: his early Kinect-based people-following system for mobile robots (25 citations) remains a reference in the field, while his recent work on self-powered tactile sensor arrays using lotus root-derived porous carbon (13 citations) opens new frontiers for robotic snake HMI. Liu has also advanced miniature crawling robots (NKhex, 3 citations) and indoor blimp trajectory control (3 citations). With over 100 total citations and a growing portfolio of high-impact publications, Huawang Liu is shaping the future of adaptive, perceptive, and energy-efficient robotic systems.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1People-following system design for mobile robots using kinect sensor25 citations · 2013
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- 3Modeling and MPC-based balance control for a wheeled bipedal robot14 citations · 2022
- 4LQR-based Balance Control of Two-wheeled Legged Robot14 citations · 2022
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- 6A Novel Design Methodology of CPG Model for a Salamander-Like Robot8 citations · 2024
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- 8Structure, Modeling, and Control of Morphing Quadrotors: A Review3 citations · 2026
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