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Jiadong Zhang is a robotics researcher focused on advancing autonomous navigation and human-robot interaction for indoor service robots. Their key research areas include social navigation, active mapping, and multi-sensor fusion for pedestrian detection. Zhang’s most impactful work, “Social and Robust Navigation for Indoor Robots Based on Object Semantic Grid and Topological Map” (2020, 14 citations), addresses critical challenges in human-robot coexisting environments—improving navigation goal selection, door-passing success rates, and path planning efficiency through semantic understanding of objects and spatial topology. This work has laid a foundation for more socially aware robot behavior. In “VP-SOM: View-Planning Method for Indoor Active Sparse Object Mapping” (2023, 2 citations), Zhang introduced a novel approach to active mapping that optimizes view planning using information abundance and observation continuity, enhancing map quality and exploration efficiency. Additionally, their work on “Pedestrian detection and tracking based on 2D Lidar and RGB-D camera” (2022, 2 citations) demonstrates expertise in fusing complementary sensors to accurately distinguish and track people in cluttered indoor settings. Zhang’s contributions are driving progress toward robots that can navigate safely and intelligently alongside humans, with potential applications in healthcare, hospitality, and domestic assistance.